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we're using up so much that i'm worried about the impact its having on the current servers, which have been kindly loaned to us by my friend at www.mawbray.com
the servers are ones he uses for his business, and i don't want our witterings to impact his business
so, i've purchased some new hosting from www.dreamhost.com (as recommended by rob from rhombus & wasteland
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what this means is that we're going to have a little downtime while people's DNS updates itself to point to the new servers - this could be anything up to a day or so depending on your ISPs. it will be different for each person i'm afraid.
anyway, what i'm planning is a 2 stage move, as follows:
1) upload copy of heartland to new webspace and point at the database on the existing heartland servers - done
2) update the dns to point to the new servers - i'm going to do this tomorrow (monday) evening
that will put is in a similar situation to how we were before the last big move, and should take the immediate pressure of the mawbray servers.
after that, i'll let it settle down for a week or so and they we will have to have another couple of hours downtime while i backup the database & move it to the new site.
once that's done we will be back up & running entirely on the new servers, which offer us an absurd amount of bandwidth per month, and which should hopefully mean no more moves for the foreseeable future
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so, in summary, expect heartland to be down for anything up to 24 hours from tomorrow evening
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sorry about the short notice but its unavoidable i'm afraid
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