Site Downtime - Thursday Night

[nickpgoodman]

Just an FYI that Thursday night I will be moving the C&H server to a new machine. Downtime should be less than an hour.

In case anyone wants to know the details here they are.

Current C&H server is running on VMWare Server Free Edition on a spare box in my datacenter, I now have two VMWare ESX Hosts running and am moving the few VMs I am running on VmWare Server to the ESX boxes.

I plan on converting over around 10pm tonight (thursday).

[apict]

Three cheers for Nick ......Thank you for all your hard work .................
..this club kicks ass

[vmbrown]

Second that !

[TurboBrew]

Thanks are defiitely in order.

[nickpgoodman]

Mark deserves just as much if not more thanks than I do. He's done the majority of the work and without him this site wouldn't be running.

[gwbbc]

10:00 thats too early. i say 1am, what cannot stay up that late??

I too second the thanks and appreciation to Mark and Nick, the site is awesome and improving every day. I am excited about a couple of the membership items which will get posted in the not too distant future, should help grow the club

[nickpgoodman]

If it was for real work I may wait until 1am. Since it's just for you turkeys I'm making it an early night :p

[jayellis]

Cheers to Nick and Mark, and to us turkeys... :)

[BeerSawks]

Thanks to both Mark and Nick for there hard work!

So now what am I supposed to do tonight, talk to my wife? I hope you're happy...

[jayellis]

We have to make those sacrifices sometimes...or else just go out and drink beer!!

[Beerbabe]

LOL!

Thanks Nick and Mark!

[Lumpher]

since the site will be down, i'll just have to console myself with ancient orange mead. awesome site, guys, very easy to navigate and good response time :D

[nickpgoodman]

Considering the current VM only has 384 meg ram dedicated to it I'd say it's fairly snappy! It is running linux though, not a big foot print needed.

[Mr.C]

What linux is it running?

[nickpgoodman]

We are running Ubuntu 8.10

[pennelmore]

Thanks to both Mark and Nick for there hard work!

So now what am I supposed to do tonight, talk to my wife? I hope you're happy...

/me laffs

Nice work on the site. Seriously.

[Mr.C]

We are running Ubuntu 8.10

I'm a Gentoo man myself and compile all. I don't know, perhaps I'm a masochist...

[nickpgoodman]

Would you believe the conversion and troubleshooting only took about 18 minutes total? About 8 minutes to run VMWare Converter to move from the Vmware Server to the ESX hosts and the next 10 minutes for me to figure out how to change it from eth0 to eth1 since it found a new NIC.

Mr. C if you are a linux guy we will keep you in mind in case we need anything. Honestly I'm primarily a windows guy, but they make it easy enough with Ubuntu that someone like me can do this :)

[gwbbc]

I am surrounded by computer geeks

[TurboBrew]

My computer has this program called paint...it's pretty sweet.

[arkador]

I am surrounded by computer geeks

computer nerds like good beer too!!!
http://www.mancavesite.org/EnterCAVEment/computer_beer.jpg
http://www.funnycoolstuff.com/images/apple-beer-server.jpg

[jayellis]

that bytes... :)

[Lumpher]

18 years as a computer tech, and never even looked at linux... how did i accomplish that??!!!?? maybe i did the microsoft thing: never wanted to work

[Mr.C]

18 years as a computer tech, and never even looked at linux... how did i accomplish that??!!!?? maybe i did the microsoft thing: never wanted to work

Microsoft will keep you busy enough ;)

I used to use Linux exclusively, but for the past 3 or 4 years, I've used XP almost exclusively. All my trading software runs on Windows. It just makes it easier.

I used to run a couple of servers at home, but my ISP started blocking my incoming connections and put a stop to that. I fire up my Linux and Solaris boxes maybe once a year now.