The Skinny on Upcoming Forum Upgrades

[MattRobertson]

Well, we all know things have been slowing down. Its inevitable with the growth this place has experienced.

We're doing something about it. DMag, Magnumclub and I have been planning an upgrade path and testing the upgrade procedure actively for at least the last week. Among other things, we are quadrupling the number of servers that run things, and this is going to make an *enormous* difference in how this place runs.

But as we draw closer to the actual move, we are starting to work with prepping live data for the migration. Today we all got bit by that with a pair of outages that lasted for about 1/2 hour total between the two, earlier today.

My bad. Sorry about that. I was copying all of Butweet's posts and the server plain just crashed under the load.

There will be future outages, but with any luck they will all be planned. I can foresee a need for at least two and possibly three more as we prepare to and then finally migrate the LXForums database to its new home.

Stay tuned. I promise it will be worth the wait.



HERE'S THE LATEST

At 8:00 pm US Eastern time on Feb 20 we will be upgrading our database server. This is the heart and soul of LXForums, so its no small task. We have literally tens of millions of records to move safely fom Point A to Point B, and there's only one way to do that: carefully. We'll be back up and running asap.

[miplank]

can't wait!!!!


Looks like maybe its time for some of the members here to step up and become site supporting to help out!

[Motor]

yay!!!....we should get the admins some beer for their efforts and more ppl should become level 2 supporters!!!!

[monty1269]

Good point... How do folks become "Site Supporters"?? Maybe there's a "Sticky" - but I missed it??

[miplank]

Go to USER CP....then PAID SUBSCRIPTIONS

[DonH]

Been planning on this for a while, but to help with the server upgrades I just became a Level II supporter.

Keep up the good work all.

[GA-Mike]

This is a great site, just signed up as a Level II supporter

[Leadfootluke]

SWEET!

Yet... I have to go without LXF? D'oh.

[MattRobertson]

just started the routine as promised... we'll see how long the forum lasts. If it does be happy :-)

[SMosher]

Good point... How do folks become "Site Supporters"?? Maybe there's a "Sticky" - but I missed it??

How Do I Become a Site Supporter?

Site supporter!

[wheelife]

Matt, with 1000 email capability how about a search function for them, pleaseeeeee!, my willte bwain is hurtin!

[lowriderman3]

Sweet!

[pigpen]

Sweeet!


I thought things been slow around here lately!

[BrilliantBlackHemi]

Good job guys planning this before we get so bogged down from the growth here.

May I ask what DB backend the site uses? Just curious. I was no aware you run it across multiple servers. Figured we were on one big one with multiprocessors and a ton of memory.

[Rainman]

Way to go Weet!!! Thought it was funny I couldn't stay connected, just glad to know it wasn't something I have to fix, LOL. Thanks for all your hard work.