Sunday afternoon/evening: Forum will be down for scheduled maintenance

[george]

FORUM MONTHLY MAINTENANCE NOTICE:

Update: We have moved maintenance to Sunday April 28, exact time will be updated on our Facebook Page:

  ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/ASEANNOWThailand/
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Forum will be down Sunday April 27, 2024 in a 6 hour window in afternoon/evening until 2am (Bangkok time GMT+7). These times could change as we go, or be longer or shorter, without warning.

 

ASEAN NOW's web traffic is increasing month by month, and we must add 4 times more resources to our cloud hosting and migrate it to Singapore for better user experience and latency.

 

We will also perform our planned monthly forum database maintenance. 

 

The whole maintenance work will take about approx 6-8 hours. Forum will be down most of the time.

 

We will update the progress on our Facebook page: ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/ASEANNOWThailand/

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The result will be faster page load, faster posting and less latency.

 

Sorry for any inconvenience! 🙏🏼

 

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[champers]

It was down last night. Will it still be down tonight as well?

[george]

55 minutes ago, champers said:

It was down last night. Will it still be down tonight as well?

 

Yes, forum will be down today/this evening as well, to do part 2 of the maintenance. It's a huge forum database that must be moved and it will take hours, and database must be offline when work is in progress.

[OneMoreFarang]

51 minutes ago, george said:

 

Yes, forum will be down today/this evening as well, to do part 2 of the maintenance. It's a huge forum database that must be moved and it will take hours, and database must be offline when work is in progress.

I work with computers, and with databases, since decades.

And when I read something like above, then I have my doubts.

How big can a database for a forum be? Not huge!

If it is so big, can't all old data, i.e. everything until last month or last year, be transferred first, and only a little new data later offline?

If you do it right it isn't that complicated and it isn't that time consuming.

[george]

17 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

I work with computers, and with databases, since decades.

And when I read something like above, then I have my doubts.

How big can a database for a forum be? Not huge!

If it is so big, can't all old data, i.e. everything until last month or last year, be transferred first, and only a little new data later offline?

If you do it right it isn't that complicated and it isn't that time consuming.

 

22 years of data = ~300GB MySQL database, ~350GB user pics etc. Moving from Canada to Singapore. Slow internet due to underwater cable issues. Professional people doing this migration, don't worry.

 

No, unfortunately part of database can't be moved as forum software is very special, impossible to set to read-only, and we can't risk losing any data.

 

A necessary database maintenance is also being done while migrating. This very time consuming indeed (mysql dump + transfer of db plus import of MySQL dump into new server database with 4x better prestanda.

 

We are doing this process during low traffic (weekend). No other way to do this.

 

After move it could be a bumpy ride for a day or so as we optimize database and fix any software issues.

 

It's not only to "copy things over" I can assure you...

 

 

[george]

9 hours ago, george said:

 

22 years of data = ~300GB MySQL database, ~350GB user pics etc. Moving from Canada to Singapore. Slow internet due to underwater cable issues. Professional people doing this migration, don't worry.

 

No, unfortunately part of database can't be moved as forum software is very special, impossible to set to read-only, and we can't risk losing any data.

 

A necessary database maintenance is also being done while migrating. This very time consuming indeed (mysql dump + transfer of db plus import of MySQL dump into new server database with 4x better prestanda.

 

We are doing this process during low traffic (weekend). No other way to do this.

 

After move it could be a bumpy ride for a day or so as we optimize database and fix any software issues.

 

It's not only to "copy things over" I can assure you...

 

 

We will continue maintenance at some point tomorrow, as it’s late and datacenter guys does not work overtime.