Author Topic: Migration of pixinsight.com to a new server | Migración a un nuevo servidor  (Read 8304 times)

Offline Juan Conejero

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Hi all,

During the incoming days we'll be migrating the entire pixinsight.com site, including PixInsight Forum, PixInsight Wiki and PixInsight Blogs, to a new virtual private server (VPS).

The volume of data to be transferred is quite large. Migrating MySQL databases, CGI and PHP scripts, adapting everything to the new environment, etc., are complex and delicate tasks, so the entire process will take days to complete. We won't modify our current DNS records until we are sure everything is working on the new VPS.

I hope this migration will be as brief and painless as possible, but as part of the process we'll inevitably be out of business during several hours, perhaps one day or more, depending on DNS propagation and other factors. During the downtime, trial licenses won't work and the software distribution site will be unreachable at our pixinsight.com domain. For your convenience, the IP address of our new VPS is 173.205.125.124. Our second domain, pleiades-astrophoto.com, is right now pointing to the new server and we'll temporarily redirect it to our root website, as soon as we upload the necessary files.

Sorry in advance for the inconvenience, and as always, thank you for your patience and support.

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Hola a todos

Durante los próximos días estaremos realizando la migración del sitio pixinsight.com, incluyendo PixInsight Forum, PixInsight Wiki y PixInsight Blogs, a un nuevo servidor privado virtual (Virtual Private Server, VPS).

El volumen de datos a transferir es bastante grande. Migrar las bases de datos MySQL, los scripts CGI y PHP, adaptar todo al nuevo entorno, etc., son tareas complejas y delicadas, de manera que el proceso completo tardará días en completarse. No modificaremos nuestros registros DNS actuales hasta estar seguros de que todo funciona en el nuevo VPS.

Espero que esta migración sea tan breve y exenta de problemas como sea posible, pero como parte del proceso, inevitablemente estaremos fuera de servicio durante horas, tal vez un día o más, dependiendo de la propagación de DNS y otros factores. Durante este tiempo, las licencias de prueba no funcionarán y el sitio de distribución de software no estará disponible en nuestro dominio pixinsight.com. Para vuestra conveniencia, la dirección IP de nuestro nuevo VPS es 173.205.125.124. Nuestro segundo dominio, pleiades-astrophoto.com, está ahora mismo disponible en el nuevo servidor y lo redireccionaremos temporalmente a nuestro sitio web principal, tan pronto como hayamos subido los archivos necesarios.

Pedimos perdón por anticipado por las molestias que vamos a causaros, y como siempre, os damos las gracias por vuestra paciencia y vuestro soporte.
Juan Conejero
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OK, PixInsight Forum is now 100% operative on the new server.

For now, while we still have our DNS records pointing to the old website, the forum is at the following address:

http://173.205.125.124/forum/

Temporarily, the forum RSS feeds are at:

http://173.205.125.124/forum/index.php?type=rss;action=.xml

Enjoy!
« Last Edit: 2010 January 06 15:37:39 by Juan Conejero »
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Offline Niall Saunders

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Hi Juan,

This is just a 'trail' post - to test if things are still working from 'the outside'  :D

Cheers,
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It seems is faster  8)

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Hi Juan,

I don't know about 'faster' - but I find that <http://pixinsight.com/forum/index.php> is still being redirected' via the 'holding page'.

To me, this suggests that the DNS database is still not updated - was this your intention, or is there a problem?

Cheers,
Cheers,
Niall Saunders
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Is new version of PI coming our way soon? I thought January was the target date.
What kind of new features are you planning Juan.



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Hi Max

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Is new version of PI coming our way soon?

A new maintenance version (1.5.9...) is coming in a couple weeks, as there are bugs that must be fixed ASAP.

If you refer to version 1.6... it will have to wait. I am 100% busy with other priority tasks. One of them is the migration of our entire website, as I've said. This migration is urgent due to security problems on our previous hosting. I don't want to be more specific about this.

As always, I ask for patience. I do what I can!
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Hi Niall,

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To me, this suggests that the DNS database is still not updated - was this your intention, or is there a problem?

This is intended of course. I won't change DNS records until everything is working perfectly on the new VPS. We are close to the final migration now; it's just a matter of reorganization, but it's a job that must be done very carefully.
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Thanks for the update Juan - and I never envy anyone with that kind of task, where the slightest slip-up will inevitably end in tears.

I assume that a grown man crying uncontrollably in Spanish sounds just the same as a grown man crying uncontrollably in Scottish  - only 'warmer' :'( :'( :'( :'(

Cheers,
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Niall Saunders
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Hi

I heard a grown scottish man cry ,      But enough of tennis :P


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