Good to know I'm part of the 100% for a change

It's installed and boots. This pretty much guarantees installation Sunday, and all I have to do in the meantime is... uh... migrate everything Cellar-related with all necessary network configurations to this server, and then it'll be ready to not only slide in place in the cage, but also become the actual Cellar server.

And then the database server work begins!

Oh. Waitaminute, I don't like this default partitioning scheme at all!

*fume* *fume*

The Cellar: Are You Being Served?

The first server is in the cage in Wilmington, and is live on the Internet, but I haven't set it up to manage cellar.org yet. That is tonight or, more likely, tomorrow as the final configuration is done.

You won't need to worry about any downtime... once it's ready, I'll just tell the Internet about it, and you'll all gradually shift to the new system.

Good job honey! Did it take long?

Yah it took about 45 minutes and that included whining because the monitor that didn't work at home also didn't work in the cage. I had to run up to the car and get the other monitor.

OK! It looks like it's be a little while longer, because the Cellar code is for the version of PHP on the current system.

This MAY mean that we have to go to an entirely different version of the forum software before moving! But don't panic just yet.

Thanks for all your hard work, Tony. You're awesome.

:thumb2: ~it is my humblest pleasure~ :thumb2:

I was speaking too soon then, and I think it *may* be working just fine and you may be reading this from the new server.

You ARE! You are reading this from the new server.

You will find that the system is a tad more responsive. A lot of how responsive the Cellar seems to be is due to the network; a little is due to how fast and/or crowded the server is at any particular time.

We are still using the old database server, and still on my plate is setting up one or both of the remaining servers (were you keeping score?) to do that duty. I want the Dell 2950 to be the database server because it can have up to 6 disks in it. The remaining Dell 210 can be a backup to the main server.

Because we are still using the old database server, the Cellar will still be a little unresponsive overnight EST when the system is being backed up.

So far things are going great! Except for at about 2am EST, you will find the site more responsive. The Chinese spammers are still trying to register accounts, and this is about half the activity on the server, and it is happily handling the activity.

WOOHOOO

Maybe it's my imagination, but it seems faster. Doing some administrative stuff, like seeing the currently active users, was painfully slow before.