Pardon Our Dust - Feb 2013

[Patrick]

Over the next few days we are going to undertake a few major changes:
1. DNS swapped to Amazon Route53
2. Forums moved to new STH colocation
3. Main site moved to new STH colocation

If you notice something go poorly for more than 5-10 minutes. Feel free to e-mail me. It is going to be fun

 

[badatSAS]

What are the main features you're looking for by going with Amazon Route53?

If you were hosting on AWS it would be a no brainer due to some of their native integrations, but wondering what the killer feature you're willing to pay them for is.

(I'm a ZoneEdit guy, have been happily using them for years)

 

[Patrick]

What are the main features you're looking for by going with Amazon Route53?

If you were hosting on AWS it would be a no brainer due to some of their native integrations, but wondering what the killer feature you're willing to pay them for is.

(I'm a ZoneEdit guy, have been happily using them for years)

So Route 53 has global servers and is really inexpensive. The other thing is that the emergency plan may be to build something in EC2 for STH.

 

[badatSAS]

I'll have to give it a shot and see how it compares the next time I'm playing with AWS

 

[Patrick]

I'll have to give it a shot and see how it compares the next time I'm playing with AWS

I think I have all of the settings awaiting the switch flip. Just too chicken to change servers.

 

[Dragon]

Site was down when I was submitting a post, tried again 10 minutes later and it worked, looks like a smooth switchover.

 

[Patrick]

Hmmm... March oh well. Today we are doing (attempting) a DNS changeover. Should be interesting.

 

[Biren78]

Hmmm... March oh well. Today we are doing (attempting) a DNS changeover. Should be interesting.

Did this go down? Working fine for me still. Smooth if ya'll did.

 

[Patrick]

We did the change just after the e-mail. Looks like the DNS propagated fine.