New hardware has been purchased for the system that hosts the LUV VM. The old server is a i7-920, 8G of RAM, and 2*750G SATA disks. The "new" server is a i7-930, 48G of RAM, 2*250G SATA SSD, and 2*2TB SATA disks. I put new in quotes because it's not new hardware, it's hardware someone else rented first. For most hosting providers getting hardware someone else used first is standard practice. But the Hetzner business model is that the default is to buy new systems that haven't been used before. Systems that have been used are sold by a reverse-auction system where the price on each system goes down steadily until someone buys it.
I am not sure exactly when I will migrate the LUV VM, but it will probably be late at night. I will coordinate with the committee because there will be a time when we have 2 separate instances of Drupal and I don't want anyone to make changes to the old one that get lost. The advantage of doing it this way is that for the people viewing the web site there will be no outage. Before starting the changes I will stop Postfix (which will only be noticed as delayed list mail) and configure Apache to fail any requests to the list server configuration web pages. The main aim is to have the minimum of surprises for people who don't read my announcement messages. Delayed mail is not noteworthy. A list server web page being down for a while usually isn't a big deal. The main web site with information on future meetings etc is the important thing that needs to remain up. The current LUV VM has 2G of RAM and 512M of swap of which 450M is used. The new VM will have at least 4G and maybe 6G of RAM. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main
