# SDMB Transitioning To New Host **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 7, 2004, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-transitioning-to-new-host/263536 "2004-09-07T20:48:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jdavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f6c823/32.png) [@jdavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jdavis)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-transitioning-to-new-host/263536/1 "2004-09-07T20:48:57Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-transitioning-to-new-host/263536/2 "2004-09-08T01:21:34Z")
No questions, but I wish you guys an easy time of it. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-transitioning-to-new-host/263536/3 "2004-09-08T01:30:01Z")
I would just like to point out that you really shouldn’t use “transition” as a verb. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-transitioning-to-new-host/263536/4 "2004-09-08T01:39:34Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > I would just like to point out that you really shouldn’t use “transition” as a verb. …and the first member volunteering to be left on the old server will be **friedo**! Good luck, SDMB techies, and thanks for your hard work. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-transitioning-to-new-host/263536/5 "2004-09-08T01:46:42Z")
we have confidence in you, jerry ---
**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-transitioning-to-new-host/263536/6 "2004-09-08T02:02:02Z")
Fight the good fight, IS guys. . . .i know how you feel ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-transitioning-to-new-host/263536/7 "2004-09-08T02:36:58Z")
> [@](#): > > . 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-transitioning-to-new-host/263536/8 "2004-09-08T02:59:09Z")
> [@jdavis](#): > > 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. Am I the only one really, really excited about this? I keep odd hours, and not having an SDMB-less hole in my schedule sounds like a great deal. 😃 :: Does geeky happy dance :: ---
**Author:** ![jessicala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb9ed0/32.png) [@jessicala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jessicala)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-transitioning-to-new-host/263536/9 "2004-09-08T03:10:50Z")
> [@jdavis](#): > > 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. 10:00 a.m. or p.m.? ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-transitioning-to-new-host/263536/10 "2004-09-08T03:13:37Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > Am I the only one really, really excited about this? I keep odd hours, and not having an SDMB-less hole in my schedule sounds like a great deal. > > 😃 > > :: Does geeky happy dance :: The board’s downtime happens at 2030h in my time zone. :eek: Now I don’t have a hole at 8:30 anymore! ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-transitioning-to-new-host/263536/11 "2004-09-08T03:14:36Z")
Sounds like you guys _are_ taking care of the place. 🙂 Technically, anyways. 😛 One Q: Any chance of losing posts during or because of the transition? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-transitioning-to-new-host/263536/12 "2004-09-08T03:16:10Z")
My guess is that IS techie guys use a 24 hour clock. Hold my hand someone - I’m scared! There’ll be a big bang or something - I know it! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-transitioning-to-new-host/263536/13 "2004-09-08T03:57:59Z")
> [@Northern Piper](#): > > My guess is that IS techie guys use a 24 hour clock. 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.) ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-transitioning-to-new-host/263536/14 "2004-09-08T04:36:08Z")
Julian Days is soooo cute! (I saw her in concert last year. ) ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-transitioning-to-new-host/263536/15 "2004-09-08T05:55:48Z")
> [@jdavis](#): > > 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. Uh, oh. How am I supposed to know when it’s time to go to bed from now on?! -Fulfilling the Complain About Everything requirement ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-transitioning-to-new-host/263536/16 "2004-09-08T06:12:03Z")
Another little question: will our post counts be affected? FTR, mine’s 1,277 as of JD2453256.758 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-transitioning-to-new-host/263536/17 "2004-09-08T07:10:02Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > I would just like to point out that you really shouldn’t use “transition” as a verb. > > 😛 And what verb would you use? :eek: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-transitioning-to-new-host/263536/18 "2004-09-08T10:29:48Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > I would just like to point out that you really shouldn’t use “transition” as a verb. > > 😛 Was it used as a verb? ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-transitioning-to-new-host/263536/19 "2004-09-08T12:01:33Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > 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. Yep, that’s the way I took it. Better start misbehaving now. Got any water balloons? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Shrinking\_Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Shrinking\_Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shrinking_Violet)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-transitioning-to-new-host/263536/20 "2004-09-08T12:18:50Z")
Just wishing the team good luck, and showing my appreciation. 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-transitioning-to-new-host/263536.md?page=2)