Downtime Soon - AVDS moving hosts (again)

It's that time of the forum again - we are going to be moving.

Background

We are currently hosted on a virtual private server. This gives us ultimate control, but it's like our previous shared hosting in that we shared one physical box with a number of other sites. However, on this particular VPS, disk was a shared SAN. Forums need a lot of disk bandwidth - we read a lot of data all the time. Any time that reads are blocked for any reason, you get a slow down. I think it's no secret that the forum has been fairly slow at times during peak Australian hours. I think this is because that's when the USA takes backups, and the SAN was real busy doing backups.

So we are going to move to a new server shortly - most likely in the next few days. I have to buy a dedicated server at a new hoster and configure the new server, which will take a few days. Once it's configured, I will be making a test migration to see how well the new hardware copes with the server. We currently max the site out at 175 requests per second under ideal circumstances:

Document Path:          /viewtopic.php?tid=67978
Document Length:        20636 bytes

Concurrency Level:      3
Time taken for tests:   0.682905 seconds
Complete requests:      100
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      2145800 bytes
HTML transferred:       2063600 bytes
Requests per second:    146.43 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       20.487 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       6.829 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          3067.78 [Kbytes/sec] received

to five requests per second under less than ideal circumstances:

ncurrency Level:      5
Time taken for tests:   184.300136 seconds
Complete requests:      1000
Failed requests:        966
   (Connect: 0, Length: 966, Exceptions: 0)
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      60343877 bytes
HTML transferred:       59521877 bytes
Requests per second:    5.43 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       921.501 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       184.300 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          319.74 [Kbytes/sec] received

I'll make sure we beat that in our new server.

Once performance is sorted, I'll be migrating the site. The major part is the backup, copy, and restore operation, which is actually quite simple, but it does take time. .

Downtime Notice

As long as the new server acquisition and provisioning goes well, AVDS will be down between 12 midnight Sunday 23rd March to 6 am Sunday AEST. This is Easter Weekend, so get some chocolate to handle the withdrawal symptoms of no AVDS for a few hours.

When you wake up on Easter Sunday, got over the hangover and found your eggs, the new server should be up and running.

thanks,
Andrew

Andrew,
Wow!!!!
I noted you have had the site down today, but now that it's back up........Holy Moley!!!!........it's running like an Audi R8 TDI!!!
I'm lovin' this.
👍
Thanks for all the hard work!!!
👍

Oddly enough, The Samba site is down today for an upgrade to a larger web server. It's been a tough day......now where's that rum bottle?
😂

Regards,
Steve

thanks Andrew ,keep up the good work ,us avd addicts will be most grateful👍

Thanks Andrew and all the others that keep this site running for the rest of us. Muchly appreciated.

ditto to the above.. 3 cheers to you andrew and the countless others who are constantly tweeking this medium.. thanks..
paul

DITTO here Andrew thanks a o lot,


Marc

dont forget this is happening tonight 👍

hehe AVD now has EFI and Turbo .... next stop will be an EJ Engine

EJ pfft EG is the only way to fly.


PS Thanks Andrew & Brad its much better guys

HUGE IMPROVEMENT

OZ Towdster wrote:EJ pfft EG is the only way to fly.


PS Thanks Andrew & Brad its much better guys

How would you know you have never finished an EG Conversion ....🙅

GOOD STUFF !!! Heaps better now👍

Hey Brad,

Could you check that my email is working? I don't know whether this may be related to the server change, but I can no longer receive emails since this morning.

Any help appreciated - magazine deadline closing fast.

Cheers
Craig