Hi everyone. I'm moving on August 2nd. As the server is situated at my home, this will incur a downtime of considerable length for the transition of the month.
I do not have a backup server plan for this time, so it will actually be a real downtime: Site unreachable.
I'm trying to make it reasonably short (less than 26 hours), but it may realistically be down for a week, if the network connection is not transferred in the right schedule.
As usual, the IRC channel (#nesvideos at irc.freenode.net) will continue to serve visitors even during site downtimes. (But BisqBot and NesVideoAgent will be unavailable, too.)
(For the interested, I am moving to a different address in the same town. Needn't be said more.)
If somebody had the space and bandwidth, somebody could download the official mirror file and put the file structure online with a modified home page notifying everyone that the official site is down and this is just a static mirror until the real server is put back up. Plus, any link to the /forum directory would redirect to a page that states the same message. The only tricky part to that is transferring the domain name between IP addresses.
<ccfreak2k> There is no 'ctrl' button on DeHackEd's computer. DeHackEd is always in control.
If you're actually interested in a temporary static mirror, I have ample space and bandwidth. Might be a tad bit of overkill for a projected downtime that small, but it wouldn't hurt.
If somebody had the space and bandwidth, somebody could download the official mirror file and put the file structure online with a modified home page notifying everyone that the official site is down and this is just a static mirror until the real server is put back up.
And that's what Xkeeper has promised to do. If he keeps that promise, I'll do the DNS redirection stuff.
If somebody had the space and bandwidth, somebody could download the official mirror file and put the file structure online with a modified home page notifying everyone that the official site is down and this is just a static mirror until the real server is put back up.
And that's what Xkeeper has promised to do. If he keeps that promise, I'll do the DNS redirection stuff.
http://tas.xkeeper.rustedlogic.net/. Feel free to let me know if any errors come up; this is an old backup which contains some errors Bisqwit (assumedly) will fix when he creates a new archive before going offline.
(It's already set up to be accessed by tasvideos.org as well as this.)
But yes, all this requires doing is extracting the archive to the proper folder and everything will be fine :P
If somebody had the space and bandwidth, somebody could download the official mirror file and put the file structure online with a modified home page notifying everyone that the official site is down and this is just a static mirror until the real server is put back up.
And that's what Xkeeper has promised to do. If he keeps that promise, I'll do the DNS redirection stuff.
http://tas.xkeeper.rustedlogic.net/. Feel free to let me know if any errors come up; this is an old backup which contains some errors Bisqwit (assumedly) will fix when he creates a new archive before going offline.
(It's already set up to be accessed by tasvideos.org as well as this.)
But yes, all this requires doing is extracting the archive to the proper folder and everything will be fine :P
It actually did (and will), except that the autoreplace for the link ended up changing :P
Yeah, it was still a little broken.
Anyway, thanks to the exceptionally good service by Relacom Oy (former Netsonic Oy), the Internet connection transfer was performed right in schedule -- I told them to do it August 1st, and 9am the old line was disconnected and 10pm (if not earlier -- this was the earliest I brought the server there), the new line was connected.
The server is now located in my new apartment and back at serving TASvideos audience -- weirdly it is the only item there from my old apartment so far!
(I will move the rest of the stuff tomorrow.)
However, this is a temporary solution -- I will still have to pull LAN cables through walls and move furniture and stuff around, so the server may experience several shorter downtimes within the next week or two.
Many thanks also to Xkeeper for providing the temporary mirror site, mitigating the effects of the site downtime.
I was honestly expecting worse, considering. Perhaps in Finland they are not quite so inept? Oh, I guess I will go on another mini-tangent. My work feels almost wasted considering that I almost spent as much time making the archive work as intended (and even with some bugs I aparrently didn't notice), compared to how long the downtime actually was. It's good that the downtime didn't last long, but at the same time... It also isn't helped by it being a one-time thing; this isn't going to be used ever again more than likely.
Anyway, thanks to the exceptionally good service by Relacom Oy (former Netsonic Oy), the Internet connection transfer was performed right in schedule -- I told them to do it August 1st, and 9am the old line was disconnected and 10pm (if not earlier -- this was the earliest I brought the server there), the new line was connected.
The server is now located in my new apartment
I think this downtime was actually shorter than some of the unexpected downtimes in the history of tasvideos.org. :P
I did not realize this site was not yet active enough to overwhelm a home Internet connection.
Bisqwit hosts a lot of the images on his employer's server (afaik) to save bandwidth here.
Most of the pages here are also heavily cached so that repeat visits just serve up a pre-rendered page.
Arguably it isn't the "home internet connection" as much as "server hardware" that would be the bottleneck here... Remember the days of "Server overloaded; over 2.5 times the safe limit"? :)
I caught the downtime. I was gonna go mass-download some speedruns for conversion onto my PSP and I saw this funny message and I was all like "Huh?"
I figured it out pretty quickly, so all's well that ends well!
Remember the days of "Server overloaded; over 2.5 times the safe limit"? :)
Of course, iirc, that last happened when Bisqwit was brute-forcing the solution to the last level in the puzzle game called Peterbox, which required gigabytes of swap memory and, as a side effect, caused the wiki part of the site to deny all requests due to shortage of memory.
<ccfreak2k> There is no 'ctrl' button on DeHackEd's computer. DeHackEd is always in control.
