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CommentAuthorSpode
- CommentTimeMar 30th 2008 edited
Apologies for the lack of interesting blog posts recently, but then I am a bit of a wind bag. I'm working on a large project for a Pharmaceutical company, that will be finished by April 17th. Until then it's early mornings, commuting and sleeping. However, as of April, you will be finding an increased number of Linux posts, due to my new blog on itpro.co.uk. All of these posts will find their way onto Spode's Abode a week later, so it'll be up to you if you can stand to wait!
I'm also intending on moving the server over to Ubuntu either later today or on Monday. UK2's support has been brilliant and can even do it on a Sunday for me. I just need to finish backing up to make the transition as smooth as possible! So if the site goes down, you know why.
Anyone who has an interest in cats, especially one as vocal as mine - might find this an interesting read! (thanks RTT)
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CommentAuthorSpode
- CommentTimeMay 28th 2008 edited
My year lease is at an end with UK2, so I'm upgrading to a dual core server at the same cost. I was hoping to swap the hard drive out from underneath but I've been told there is a motherboard incompatibility. I'm guessing that means my old hard drive is IDE and the new machine uses SATA. I'm trying to persuade them to clone the drive in advance, or at least boot me up off a Live CD so I can clone it. Otherwise things are a little trickier
Update:
If you are reading this, your DNS has picked up the new server IP. This means you'll be able to sign in and post as normal again!
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CommentAuthorClubBarf
- CommentTimeJun 3rd 2008
Posted By: Spode
I was hoping to swap the hard drive out from underneath but I've been told there is a motherboard incompatibility. I'm guessing that means my old hard drive is IDE and the new machine uses SATA.[/i]
Or it could mean the old drive is SATA and the new one is SATA, the "incompatibility" being that they can't be bothered to go down to the datacentre and swap out your drives...
For the money they charge, though, you can hardly blame them.
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CommentAuthorSpode
- CommentTimeJun 3rd 2008
Well, I don't think it's that. They cloned the drive for me. That's quite a bit of effort. I have found UK2's Dedicated Support team to be pretty top knotch...
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CommentAuthorClubBarf
- CommentTimeJun 3rd 2008
IIRC, they have IP based KVM's - cloning the drive can be done by rebooting a server from a TFTP drive, all from the comfort of a desk at the NOC.
Bear in mind they're also probably bound by pretty silly rules handed down to them by silly men who don't quite get the technology involved. I've worked for a few ISP's, it's always the way...
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CommentAuthorSpode
- CommentTimeJun 4th 2008
No, they physically removed the drive, put it into another machine and used Ghost 4 Linux. I suggested PING (Partimage is Not Ghost) which I personally find to be faster
In most cases, I'd be the cynic and join in CB, but they have done a lot to help me. They had to move me from one server to another because I was getting crashes. I asked if they could run memtest86 on the new server before the hard drive was moved over - they did so, and left it running over night. My total downtime? 5 minutes, including shutting down and booting up.
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CommentAuthorClubBarf
- CommentTimeJun 4th 2008
Well, in that case I'm actually fairly impressed...
We used to do something similar when a machine went down - pull the disks, replace the machine with an identical one, shove the disks in and away you go... RAID 1, so if one of the disks died, we just replaced that one disk.
We were dealing with customers who'd paid a good deal more for each server (and had nifty things like load balancers, geographic load balancers etc), so management was much more willing to let us spend time on a customer's kit...
What management didn't get around to telling the customers is that they went out and bought machines that didn't support hot-swap SCSI drives. And they were using 10k RPM disks where they should have been using 15's...
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