Site for the FAQ may be down for a day or two days soon

The site for the FAQ for this group at

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will be down for likely one or two days within the next few weeks. I likely will receive more details before this happens and will post here if I know a more exact time. Below is part of a message I received that explains the situation. ____________________________________________________________________________

The first of such improvements is the creation of our new Ecommerce Data Center in Columbus, Ohio. For a while now, we've been placing all new customers directly into the Ohio facility, and things have been running great! In a few weeks, we'll finally be ready to move all of our existing customers to this new facility.

The New Ecommerce Data Center - What's in it for you?

The new data center is over ten times larger than our existing data center in Kentucky. You don't need to worry about the technicalities, but it's good to know anyway: you'll have a more modern, more redundant and more powerful infrastructure including generators, battery backups and air conditioning. You will be connected via multiple OC-48 fiber-optic lines. At a speed three times our old facility, your sites will be loading faster than ever. We're scheduling to move your account to the new data center at the end of March or early April, so right around 6 weeks from now (if you signed up with us after November 15, 2007, your websites are most likely already at our new data center). The move will entail site unavailability for a period of 24 to 48 hours while we physically move the servers from one location to another. We are doing our best to minimize this timeframe.

You'll hear from me again in a few weeks with more information as to when exactly the move will happen and more info (and pictures!) on the new data center.

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cwdjrxyz
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thanks for warning, and for all you and Mark have done to get this resource up and available.

Reply to
DaleW

Thanks for the heads-up, but I just don't get it. They should be able to migrate your (and every other) site to the new server farm with _no_ downtime. They should just back up all the data, mirror it on the new site and then just update the DNS entries to point to the new server farm. All that should be required is that no one update their website for the time it takes to switch the DNS entries.

Mark Lipton

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Mark Lipton

I agree they likely could transfer you to another server at the new site and then physically move the server you were on to the new site. Then the next transfer by someone else could be to the old server you were on once it is installed at the new site. Of course they use both Unix and Microsoft servers depending on what you select. I would guess that a large business site that can not afford to be down could contact them and they likely would do this or something of the sort. They back up every day, and I have backed up copies, so there seems to be no danger of loss, even if the delivery truck has an accident and destroys the server.

Being on even faster fiber optics lines that will increase the speed by about 3 times likely will be noticed only for high broadband video for those having a path to the server with no bottle necks along the way. This likely will not be noticed on the mostly text FAQ pages, but I likely will check it out on some streaming videos on my sites that require over 2 Mbps to stream without undue delay for buffering.

The host's old site in Kentucky was near state of the art with multiple fiber optics connections. The main reason they are moving likely is they have greatly outgrown their old building, and the new location has access to more and faster fiber optics pathways in and out. This is just the US presence of the hosting company which is located in Europe and has locations around the world, including Asia.

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cwdjrxyz

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