MM ISP Change over, planned for Jan 06 or 07 Options

[Cleo_Serapis]

Hi all.

Due to recent issues with our host, we are planning to change to another host in the next few days.

This will require us to take MM down during the change process for an hour or so. We will plan the change during our lowest traffic time in early morning EST.

We're sorry to inconvenience you, but we expect the change to make the site more stable, and we will NOT fool around when the host doesn't respond to our needs in a timely manner.

Stay tuned all. We'll send another PM and also update this thread I'll post in the Cuneiform Chronicles forum as well.

Thank you!

~Lori aka Cleo

[Imhotep]

Well, Jarvis is connected to (more than one?) ustream provider for redundancy.  What they told me is that late Sunday one of their connections started going up and down because the upstream provider had equipment issues.  They told me that was fixed yesterday morning, but I still couldn't successfully load the forum reliably.  They told me that they could, but I tend to question their methodology.  I could get at the static pages, but anything that required CGI was just broken, and they wouldn't admit/pay attention to the issue I was reporting.  I've had other rundowns with their '24x7' support not being all it's cracked up to be too, so in the end it was just easier to go elsewhere.

I could get into the technical details on MTU, packet size, BGP, redundant links, MBTF on routers and stuff, but I'd put everyone to sleep