Working on the server

[Scott Greczkowski]

Why would they name a web server N-GINX...?

Primestar31 got it correct. It stands for Engine X.

nginx

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

All is looking good. I think I am done tinkering for now.

Please let me know if you see anything strange.

 

[Bobby]

It's downright snappy right now!

 

[savarese04]

Your hosting company is providing a physical server, not a VM? They don’t maintain spare servers for this contingency?

I am rather surprised by this, as well. I had assumed they were using AWS and reselling some level of configuration on top of that. I guess not!

 

[Groundhog]

Maybe a good idea to not move to a west coast server right now. We may wake up one morning and it isn't there. Up in smoke.
I'm really hoping that all of the extra fireman going there from other states and Mexico can help them knock all of those fires down.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Sorry that brief timeout was me... I forgot to add something to the web server needed by the backup software.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Other than the backup not working last night everything else looks great.

Hope you guys are seeing the same thing.

I am probably going to go check in to this hospital as I am in a lot of pain. I have a feeling this one may be too big if to pass on its own.


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[Jimbo]

Other than the backup not working last night everything else looks great.

Hope you guys are seeing the same thing.

I am probably going to go check in to this hospital as I am in a lot of pain. I have a feeling this one may be too big if to pass on its own.


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Let them take care of you ...

 

[FTA4PA]

I am probably going to go check in to this hospital as I am in a lot of pain. I have a feeling this one may be too big if to pass on its own.

Good luck!

 

[navychop]

Hospital. Not SatellieGuys. Focus on recovery. Just making it worse otherwise.

 

[Bobby]

Get better Scott! Do what you have to do.

 

[harshness]

While I could move, it would be a lot of work, as a lot of DNS to change and updates to email records for SPF etc...

Unrelated to your current issue, DNS can be just two pointer changes (the IP address and the PTR record) if you set up the servers to point to a symbolic address rather than an IP address. Some hosting services require that you request a PTR record change so that may not be instantaneous (but neither is DNS propagation).

For example:

server.net is the server
mail.server.net can then point to server.net (rather than to the IP address)
www.server.net can point to server.net
... and so on.

DKIM, SPF and DMARC don't involve IP addresses as that would make having multiple mail servers impossible.

 

[harshness]

Maybe a good idea to not move to a west coast server right now.

L.A. doesn't include the entire West Coast. In fact, many of the "West Coast" hosted servers are in Oregon and Washington where electricity is typically considerably cheaper.

 

[navychop]

Ping times.

 

[harshness]

Ping times.

Unless, and perhaps even if, you're into gaming, are ping times of any real consequence?

 

[telstar_1]

Unless, and perhaps even if, you're into gaming, are ping times of any real consequence?

69ms can seem like an eternity

 

[harshness]

69ms can seem like an eternity

To me it seems like 1/15th of a second.

While this kind of timing was an issue in camera shutter speeds, I don't see it being a huge problem here.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

If I was forced to move the server it wouldn’t be to the West Coast.

If you look at the user map a majority of folks are on the East Coast.

But thankfully we will not need to make that move. This new server seems great to me. Very happy with the speed again.

 

[lordodogg]

I don’t think it’s possible, but would regionalizing the servers work? Like can you have both a West Coast server and an East Coast server?

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

You could but the database would only live on one of them.