Wednesday, September 8th at 10:00 CST the Chicago Reader IS staff will begin a process to transition the SDMB to a new hosting provider. The SDMB should be down for about 2 hours. After the SDMB comes back up we fully expect your performance for possibly the next 3 days to be worse than it is now. How much worse we don’t exactly know.
The reason for the decrease in performance is that to assist in the transition to the new hosting provider we will have to reconfigure how the backend database server and frontend web server communicate. This reconfiguration will introduce a longer delay than currently exists now. The delay will go away once the transition to the new hosting provider is fully completed so it’s only a temporary condition that will allow us to perform a seamless transition.
After the transition we do not know exactly how well the SDMB will perform with this new hosting provider and so we ask you to bear with us for the next few days. We do know however that you probably will see a decrease in performance in the very short term while the transition is occuring. After that things may even improve but of course we give no promises.
We believe the transition should pretty much be completed by Saturday at 10:00 CST. Most people will probably be transitioned to using the new server by Thursday night. I’m happy to say that after the transition we can at least provide you with one additional benefit. We should not need to take the SDMB offline from 03:30 to 04:30 CST each night to perform backups any longer. That process will occur in a new way that does not require the SDMB to be offline.
Thanks For Your Patience,
Jerry Davis
Information Systems Director
Chicago Reader, Inc.
11 E. Illinois St.
Chicago, IL 60611
PS: Please don’t be offended if we don’t reply to any questions you may subsequently post to this thread. We’ll be pretty busy for a while.
You mean that the behavior of the Board will be worse, right?
I mean, my performance might be really awful for the three days following, but that’s got nothing to do wth your Provider.
I think most techies use the 24 hour clock, in addition to medical types and the police. Among others.
IOW, anyone who needs to work at hours other than the traditional 9-17 likes the 24 hour clock because it makes time math easier.
(Of course, astronomers like Julian Days, because the ‘day’ begins at noon, not midnight, so there’s no annoying break in time when you’re noting down observations. Some software uses JDs internally, but I don’t know of any programmer culture that has latched on to them.)
Technically, anyways. 