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| New rantburg.com server -- UPDATE |
| 2025-08-11 |
| by Chris Covert Rantburg Backend mechanic We are proceeding much faster than anticipated in moving to our new permanent home. This post outlines what has happened to the changeover and what to expect. There have been changes. 1) The new rantburg.com will reside on a single quadcore Xeon CPU and RAID electronics, instead of the previously specified dual quadcore processor. The new server still has 32 gigs of RAM. In the early going with the hosting provider, I had a devil of a time getting their RAID rig to work. My previous experience in setting up FreeBSD on a RAID rig in the past have been singularly negative. After three complete self-installations which failed, and me begging the hardware guys to move to a bare metal server, the hardware people decided to let me have what I needed. Don't get me wrong. I love those guys. They are polite, knowledgeable, with years of professional experience behind them -- everything I'm not. So, rantburg.com will be on a one terabyte SD drive bare metal server, instead of the virtual rig. This will make rantburg.com much more stable. 2) Thinking seriously about moving the changeover up by one, possibly two weeks. Setting up the new server was at times hard, moving from php 8.0 to php 8.3, and overhauling the apache php interpreter to an entirely new interpreter but it appears it is ready. When I do decide it is time, I will post a post with the title "The changeover is tonight." At midnight, the database is backed up for the final time, and moved to the new server. Any activity on ranturg.com after that time will be gone forever. At the same time, there will be an inevitable delay as the rantburg.com name is propagated throughout the domain name system. rantburg.com will be for some unavailable for a brief period of time. But newrantburg.1dogstar.net is now and always will be available. Contact: gmail: grurkka Rantburg O-Club: https://officersclub.1dogstar.net/index.php (unavailable between 15 minutes and 35 minutes after, odd numbered hours, zulu time) Facebook: Personal account, always public: https://www.facebook.com/chris.covert.1441 |
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