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big tom
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 Server maintenance I've got a spot of server maintenance planned for this (GMT) evening, guys. The site will probably go down around 2 to 3 hours after this thread was posted. It's a bit of a monster of a change server-wise, but I'll try to be as quick as I can without screwing anything up  Also: don't worry, I have backups 
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Mr MUTTLEY!
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Re: Server maintenance noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
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big tom
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Re: Server maintenance Mr MUTTLEY! wrote: noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Man up, ya pussy 
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big tom
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Re: Server maintenance Half way there! For those who want to know: the board runs on a VPS which, until about 5 minutes ago, ran ubuntu 8.04 + a bunch of custom apt repos. It's always been kept patched and up to date, but I never had a need great enough to justify the downtime needed for a full upgrade. It's now running 10.04, and should soon be running 11.04. You can't go straight from 8.04 to 11.04 - hence the half way point. (I actually have to go to 10.10 before I can go to 11.04, but that's much less of a big deal) I've just taken another backup and I'm about to start the move to 11.04. Wish me luck
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big tom
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Re: Server maintenance Annnddd... Kernel swapped and we're on 10.10. One more to go; a bit bigger than the last.
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big tom
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Re: Server maintenance Eleven oh four. Phew.
As always, let me know if you have any problems.
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Re: Server maintenance Thanks Tom!!!
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big tom
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Re: Server maintenance LoQ wrote: Thanks Tom!!! You are most welcome, sir.
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Sir Robin
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Re: Server maintenance Thanks for uh... Whatever you did. I don't understand 20% of what you were doing anyways, but I know it's for good! 
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Pao
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Re: Server maintenance SCIENCE! Thanks for all your work anyway, Tom! )
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Simon
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Re: Server maintenance Thanks, Tom!  Everything's working fine here.
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eierkopf
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Re: Server maintenance Hi!
As a matter of interest:
Is there any reason for using ubuntu instead of debian (or any other server-distribution)?
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big tom
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Re: Server maintenance eierkopf wrote: As a matter of interest:
Is there any reason for using ubuntu instead of debian (or any other server-distribution)? There's no single reason, to be honest. I do like debian and I run it on a few of my smaller servers at home; but Ubuntu is more popular (and therefore community support is better), has a quicker release cycle, includes newer packages (e.g. debian is stil on PHP 5.2.* AFAIK, I use some 5.3 features in some things on this server) and a bunch of other small stuff.
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Zae
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Re: Server maintenance Wow, Tom's so awesome he organises these things for when I'm on holiday
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dave5150
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Re: Server maintenance I'm guessing this has nothing to do with the main site being down?
(cue cries of "there's a main site?")
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