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Preparing for a new master DonationCoder server

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mouser:
One of the original motivations for having two servers was so that if one crashed, we could run a temporary forum on the other server.

Theoretically that makes a lot of sense, but in practice that doesn't seem like it's that much of a concern.. we could run a backup forum anywhere on any free forum hosting site should that happen, and the more important concern is having a good backup/restore system in place, and be hosted someplace with extremely good uptime and reliability.

Gothi[c]:
To clarify, our two servers currently have two separate functions (main server and backup server) it's not like one is a backup of the other, though we do have a limited functionality backup forum ready on the member server in case the main server goes down. Our budget is currently not big enough to actually do real HA on two physical servers, or we'd have to get rid of the member server, which wouldn't be very nice either.

mouser:
Just a quick update.. we actually got the new server!
Gothic is setting it up as we speak.

We have not switched over to it yet.. we plan to do so sometime around the end of dec or january.

The new server should have a number of benefits, including making it easier for us to keep on top of security updates, making it easier to maintain rigorous backups, and giving us the security and freedom to set up some experimental new web services.

Thank you to all donators whose donations have made it possible for us to upgrade the server.

(When all is said and done our monthly server costs shouldn't be much more than they are now, as we are basically consolidating servers).

40hz:
Out of curiosity, which VMWare product are you using for this? Are you just running server or did you spring for something bigger like Sphere?

mouser:
I believe it's vmware ESX.. but gothic can fill us in on all the details.

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