Site Upgrade – 12pm GMT/UTC today

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[garjones]

Thanks to everyone’s generosity we have made enough to upgrade the site to a new server with a SSD hard drive which should make it respond a lot quicker. Hooray

That does mean they need to transfer the files and do some DNS setting which mean there’ll be an outage while they do that work.

I don’t know how much notice I’ll get of when that happens so this is to tell everyone not to panic if the board is unavailable suddenly. It’ll be back soon enough, new and improved.

They say the work takes between 18 and 72 hours –  I doubt it’ll be as long as 72 with our little site but I guess they have to cover themselves.

• This topic was modified 4 years, 8 months ago by garjones.

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I have a time now:

Date: 13th July 2020

Time: 8PM

Duration: expected within 2 hours

8pm here is 12pm GMT.

The 18-72 hours dramatically reduced to under 2. 😂

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Will_C, Ian Smith, Todd, Andrew, DavidM, Dave, Martin Smith

That’s great, thanks for all your efforts on this Gar.

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garjones, Ben, Todd

If it’s anything like a Windows upgrade it’s going to take 72 hours.

2 hours.

6 minutes.

30 hours.

20 minutes.

1 hour.

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Will_C, Ben, Todd, Andrew, Dave

Thank you for the update!

thanks for all you do Gar.

Yay update day!

Thank you Gar

Big thanks to Gar for keeping us up to speed on how he will get us up to preferred speed.

And a big thanks to everyone who contributed. We all know Jerry could have done more. We all blame him for it. And we’re right in doing so.

But I guess you don’t become a millionaire by spending money. Let’s try to keep an open mind. No lynching.

In all seriousness, I think my maximum setting is around 80%, big thanks to everyone! Even Jerry!

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Will_C, njerry, Todd, garjones

Yeah, I mean, I didn’t want to say anything about Jerry.

I feel like he does owe us each at least one yacht.

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njerry

You can borrow one of mine. Jerry gave me two yachts.

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Anonymous wrote:

I feel like he does owe us each at least one yacht.

Each.

Anonymous wrote:

Jerry gave me two yachts.

Prelude to The Carrier: Civil War #1

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Andy, njerry, Todd

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I feel like he does owe us each at least one yacht.

Each.

Anonymous wrote:

Jerry gave me two yachts.

Prelude to The Carrier: Civil War #1

Great. A fucking crossover that will bleed into all the threads for several months. Can’t we just make Tim cry now and say it’s all over?

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njerry

Everyone is talking about me today. I feel so SPECIAL!!

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garjones, Todd

Sounds great, thanks for all your work on the board Gar!

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garjones

Todd wrote:

Prelude to The Carrier: Civil War #1

Surely it would follow the World War Hulk model.

Anonymous wrote:

Todd wrote:

Prelude to The Carrier: Civil War #1

Surely it would follow the World War Hulk model.

So you need to have a temper tantrum and we can then move on?

LOBS YACHTS AT TODD’S FACE!!!

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Todd

Todd wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Todd wrote:

Prelude to The Carrier: Civil War #1

Surely it would follow the World War Hulk model.

So you need to have a temper tantrum and we can then move on?

Everyone always moves on from the Hulk, eventually…

Hey big guy, sun’s getting real low

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Todd

If this was an X-men comic,  Todd would have to time travel back to stop Gar from implementing the site upgrade and thus avoiding the question of who gets Jerrys yachts all together.

But then, a horrible new timeline arises…

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Todd

But then, you get extra compensatory cuddles.

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Todd

Anonymous wrote:

If this was an X-men comic,  Todd would have to time travel back to stop Gar from implementing the site upgrade and thus avoiding the question of who gets Jerrys yachts all together.

But then, a horrible new timeline arises…

I DID time travel.

Does Jerry still have butts growing out of his butt?

Probably. I mean how else would he be able to sit on all his yachts?

Anonymous wrote:

Probably. I mean how else would he be able to sit on all his yachts?

Damn. The timeline is still messed up.

Jerry should have just one butt and he should be shitting Savage Dragon comics.

Now I can only picture Jerry like this

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Sean Robinson wrote:

Now I can only picture Jerry like this

Oh come one! Jerry can’t tie a bow!

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Anonymous wrote:

Sean Robinson wrote:

Now I can only picture Jerry like this

Oh come one! Jerry can’t tie a bow!

It’s okay. He has people do it for him.

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Sean Robinson

Don’t listen to them, Jerry. You can do it! (You can get the kind ready bow-tied with elastic).

It’s almost 12pm.

In case I don’t see yous. Good afternoon, good evening, and good night.

OK, it seems to be all done so I’m unpinning this.

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DavidM, Todd

The site does seem to be loading a lot faster on my desktop and my phone.

Thank you for work on this, Gar!

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garjones

Yeah I did a few comparisons and it’s still not at big global site loads of ‘almost instant’ (like Twitter, The Guardian) but to me is clearly faster and did compare pretty well with a local newspaper site and comics one of maybe 3-4 seconds transition.

Tell me what you think guys.

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DavidM

garjones wrote:

Yeah I did a few comparisons and it’s still not at big global site loads of ‘almost instant’ (like Twitter, The Guardian) but to me is clearly faster and did compare pretty well with a local newspaper site and comics one of maybe 3-4 seconds transition.

Tell me what you think guys.

I would say for our needs, the boost we received is just fine. I was not expecting “almost instant” from the upgrade.

It’s faster for me to. I had gotten rather acclimatized to the waiting times and built them into a routine. Now I’m back at square one. Pfft.

Seriously, though! Thanks! :D

Todd wrote:

I would say for our needs, the boost we received is just fine. I was not expecting “almost instant” from the upgrade.

That’s good I was just checking because I realise I’m physically close to the server and the rest of you aren’t.

..and yes, this is as good as it can get for us really. Even going to a dedicated server instead of a shared one, which is the next upgrade and is more to do with it being robust than fast, will cost 10 times what our current setup does. Those big sites have multiple mirrored servers.

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