ottawa foodies

I received notice from my hosting provider that OttawaFoodies will be moving to a brand new server on Tuesday morning. This is scheduled to take place at 09:30 UTC (05:30 EDT) and should go fairly quickly but anything can happen. So please be patient if you can't access the site right away on Tuesday morning.

The new server is expected to be much faster, which should translate to a noticeable improvement in user experience. :-)

Hurray! Faster is always better, right?

That's what I always tell the ladies.

Oddly enough, ever since you posted that I'm getting a whole crapload of gimpy page loads where I get the Web faction default page - I hope the change tomorrow fixes that

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Oh yeah, and a bunch of these too - whenever I try to actually post something

405 Not Allowed

nginx

Crap that's probably my fault. I put in the new A record for DNS already and maybe your system isn't favoring the first one in the list. Yes, it should clear up tomorrow, when I will remove the defunct a record!

I disabled the new record so it should work again. I'll flip it over manually tomorrow morning -- a quick google suggested that redundant A records would result in a round-robin attempt, but I guess the fact that Webfaction puts up a valid default page messes that approach up!

What are you using for a TTL? (He asks, without bothering to look it up :-))

Typically for something like this I'd lower the TTL to a minute or two 48 hours before the switch, then switch, and jack it back up again afterwards.

That's the low-tech way anyway. I'm sure there are cleaner, more elaborate mechanisms which can be employed

I'm using a 1 hour TTL. Sure, I could do what you're saying but since I'm not the one making the switch I'd have to be trying continuously starting at 5:30am tomorrow morning. I need my beauty sleep!

I'll switch it over when I wake up tomorrow. If all goes well it will be working by the time most people grab a coffee and sit down at their miserable desks to see what people ate this weekend.

:-)

Oh yeah good point if you don't know when the switch will happen.

Hmm... seems like it still hasn't switched. I'll check it periodically during my OC Transpo commute.

We are up and running on the new server now. All should be welllll....

Sadly I don't think it has gotten any faster.

But it has been slower too so I guess it is all relative :-)

Not terrible in any case.