Server move on 8th or 10th November

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Server move on 8th or 10th November

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Server move on 8th or 10th November
Hi everyone,

As mentioned in my news from September, I have been planning to move AAO to a new server infrastructure for a while.
I planned to do everything during the first half of September, but as you may remember we encountered severe delays when performing the first step on September 13th, and I have lacked time to perform the second step afterwards.

Well, this second step is coming at last.
I've spent the last few days configuring my new server, and it seems ready to receive the awesomeness that is AAO.

I'm planning the transfer for Tuesday November 8th or, if for some reason I don't have time on Tuesday, on Thursday November 10th.
AAO will be disabled while it takes place.
It should hopefully take no more than an hour.
Indeed, the whole site there is ready, and all heavy media files have already been transferred.
I'll only have to transfer the site database (that's the matter of 3 minutes or so) and the trial files (this is likely to take much longer, but probably less than 30 minutes).

Oh, and I should mention that it'll be less frightening than last time : here, the current server will stay online during the operation - it will just nicely display a message mentioning it's disabled, until the new server is ready and takes over.
So you won't even have an opportunity to panic ! :mrgreen:
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Re: Server move on November 8th or 10th

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B-b-b-b-b-b-b-but NO AAO FOR AN HOUR? WAAAAAAAAAAH! HOW WILL I SURVIVE?
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ZOMG START PANICKING NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
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YOU'RE TEARING ME APART, UNAS! D:

WHAT AM I GONNA DO WITHOUT MY 24/7 AAO DO MY HOMEWORK OR SOMETHING GAWD
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*Looks around house*

Birthday laptop? Check
The Sims games on it? Check
Symphony Of The Night in PlayStation 1? Check
Libreoffice to write fanfiction? Check
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic on Youtube? Check

That should be more than enough to survive the downtime
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Wackyman wrote:YOU'RE TEARING ME APART, UNAS! D:

WHAT AM I GONNA DO WITHOUT MY 24/7 AAO DO MY HOMEWORK OR SOMETHING GAWD
U MAD WE NEVER GONNA SURVIIIIIIIIVE D:
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Dypo deLina wrote:
Wackyman wrote:YOU'RE TEARING ME APART, UNAS! D:

WHAT AM I GONNA DO WITHOUT MY 24/7 AAO DO MY HOMEWORK OR SOMETHING GAWD
U MAD WE NEVER GONNA SURVIIIIIIIIVE D:
NO AAO FOR 1 HOUR? WHAT IS WE GONNA DO?!

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Re: Server move on November 8th or 10th

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TwiGav wrote:...Ahem. DON'T TURN INTO ANOTHER C-R, AAO! I JUST JIIIIIIIINKXED IT DIDN'T I!
Well, someone said it last time, and it lasted 20 hours instead of the 3 or so planned.
So now you can prepare for around 7 hours of blackout, if we keep the same ratio compared to my 1-hour estimate :-P
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My advice is to be prepared, like my list from earlier. Also, there is the AAO Xat. Just Google it. (Also, the first page of searching Ace Attorney Online Xat has my FanFiction.Net profile)
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Here we go again! But the new server is going to be very secure. Unas has given it an overkill of defences, from what I gather, so it's going to be happy days, following the move. :)

So if you want to hack AAO, please do so now, before it's too late. :P
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I'm doing my best for it to be safe, but an open invitation is not really in order, Meph ;-)

Anyway, I've also set up a much more organised development environment, so it should not only be safer but also less buggy. So now I should avoid overwriting changes between the versions hosted on my two computers (I sometimes undid updates by mistake because of that... :-P), and can now test more thoroughly before pushing online.

Anyway, it will all be much more comfortable for me :-)
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I have homestuck.
I am safe.
I am chill.
As chill as when I was Gamzee.
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Bring it on servers.
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I can last a measly hour...
But are there any other reasons for sever change besides security?
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Is there any plans in the new server move/defences to combat the spam bot invasion of Gyakuten Wiki? Someone actually posted on C-R about it the other day, imploring for Croik to severe ties with the site because of the spam. :P
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Re: Server move on 8th or 10th November

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I'm aware of the status of GW, and I've actually completely disabled posting new stuff on it for the moment.

It's unrelated to the server change though, as GW is hosted on a different server - I might move it to my new one some day, but it wouldn't change much about the spam until I find the time to design my own anti-spam system... And I'd rather spend my free time on AAO6 than that ;-)
So anyway, for the moment gw will stay as it is - AAO remains my priority.
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