Hardware upgrade today

If all goes well, I will be upgrading our server's hardware today to a completely new machine. This may cause some downtime during the actual switchover.

FYI

Dave

Well, the upgrade is complete. That didn't hurt all that bad. Is everyone here?

dave

here boss!! flying!

Is that why I couldn't get on at
10am...PST lasted about 20 mins.

Thanks Dave!

I had to hit it 4 times,no go,then went to BGI,came back and it came up?this just happened, kept saying site found waiting for reply?



just tried again BANG came right up faster then ever Thanks Dave,for whatever ya did!

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I thought that it was a virus. Thanks God it wasn't.

Good on you, Dave.

You hook up a Turbo Dave,this thing is Flying!

Yay - just saw this. Cool. :)

Slept late and missed it! Came on a few minutes ago with no problems.

Wow, that was so fast that time. Thanks Dave.

Whew...you just don't know how scary it is to hit DG and IT' NOT THERE!!!! So glad that didn't take long... -:)

Just a blip a couple of hours ago!! All's well now!

everyone was asking me what happened--i knew dit would all dbe ok =]

Did something happen last night? I tried all night (East coast) to get on and couldn't! I started getting paranoid and erased all my cookies and everything! Totally cleaned up the ol girl.

It went off on me last while I was viewing a post. Wasn't on yet at 7 AM CST. Came right up now.
ßernie

The upgrade was a disaster, and in fact, we're back to running the old hardware again. The new hardware ran for quite a while (a day?) before it crashed last night - and it crashed hard.

It was down for 12 hours, until this morning I was able to reset the machine and bring it back online. I quickly put the old hardware back in (which is slower, but at least it doesn't crash).

The new hardware will be sent back to mwave.com (from whom I bought it).

This afternoon I purchased new equipment from a local computer company, and am currently working to configure and test that. This new server will be put through much more rigourous testing before I upgrade DG again.

dave

Dave, it's so maddening when new equipment not only fails to perform as promised, but actually makes matters worse. Thank you for explaining what happened, and I hope that mwave honors your business by making this right.

Thanks for the quick response! Hope it all goes well next time!

As usual, I just thought it was the old system I use, so I gave up and left it until now. How odd to come here and learn it wasn't my dinosaur at all. I came here first, though, hoping to find something like this. Yippeee!

Good luck with getting it straighten out.

Thanks a million Dave! What ever the speed, it has always been faster than 95% of the net.

This is strange: At this time, going forward is fairly fast, but using the 'Back' arrow is very slow. Other websites are acting normal though.

sumtin appen ast nighdt boss? Er d'I not spayell raight agin?

I'm sorry for the extra work and all, Dave. I know how frustrating it can be. Thanks for letting me know about my issues... Kind and praying regards for the next upgrade :)

Wow, this is even weirder: Now going back is lightening fast AND it refreshes the page as well! It never did this before, although I always had it set up to do that.
Hail Dave!

Dave I can only imagine the headaches this caused you and I'm truly sorry. I read this somewhere - "When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target". :-) I truly didn't know how much this site meant to me until I was forced to do without it. A million thanks - and more!!

Ditto!!!!

Thanks for all your work on the site Dave - we love DG soooo much!

Remember when it wasn't uncommon to be told something had to wait, the computers were down? So we just knew we had no choice. It could last for hours or days. I'm well trained, and I accept the delay or being unable to go where I want to go. Here, the wait is usually brief, and we are even told why it must be. Thanks, DG staff.

Louisa, what a marvelous quote! Am going to remember that one, it's so true. And I echo what you said about DG. Thanks go to Dave and all those helping him for a friendly, informative and special site.

Thanks dave.

I am new to Dave's Garden, but not new to Gardening clubs. But I have been in network support for a co-lo facility before and some servers would be fine forever, but some constantly had trouble. I hope it doesn't continue to give issues.

Its the people here that I'm here for anyway! I just happen to be awake and surfing when most people do their server maint. Except during the crash last week and this past Monday night when no page would load, I've never had any problems with a page loading slow. Old or new hardware-maybe I am patient-well no, no one has ever said that of me.

I am a new member and I find everything about this site fascinating!

welcome!! you'll love it here, hope you have a comfortable chair!

Mderamo...go to Welcom Mat and tell us about your self...where you're from...Jo

Is there still a welcome mat? It's not showing up on my watched forums anymore. Need to check this out!

Yep its right here:
http://davesgarden.com/f/welcome/

I'm still not getting the newsletter, is anyone?

I got mine this morning...and I believe every morning except one.

well arent you special...I'm sure I'll get mine soon enough.
I am not complaining....really