[BlueOnyx:22137] Re: Unplanned Maintenance of BlueOnyx Shop / NewLinQ

[Greg Kuhnert]

Hi Team.

Firstly, Thanks to Chris and his team. All issues fixed. Thanks again to the Virtbiz team for helping during the issues.

However, I will take this opportunity to advise people that I am working on some (long overdue) upgrades. NewLinQ and the support ticket system will be moved to 5209R in the very near future. I am doing this as a staged migration. A quick overview on what is happening and what to expect:

1. I am moving the database first. I have a script that is doing the DB migration. I have already actually done it a number of times, but I have not yet cutover to the DB on the new server. This is coming soon. Each time I do a test migration, there will be outages of up to about 60 seconds… but no functional loss of data.

2. Next, I will be activating the new apps (NewLinQ / NewLinQ-admin and the support ticketing system) on the new server. At this point, requests to the new server IP or the old server IP will both work. No additional outages expected while this runs in parallel.

3. Next, I will cutover DNS. Requests to the old IP will continue to work until DNS caches converge to new details.

4. And finally, I will turn off the old VPS… keep it around in case of emergency for a while, but that should be it.

GK


> On 3 Jun 2018, at 8:00 am, Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet <cobaltfacts at virtbiz.com> wrote:
> 
> Just a quick notification that if you notice the BX Shop and NewLinQ as being inaccessible for a bit today (06/02/2017) this is due to some unexpected maintenance that is being done on that installation's routing infrastructure.   Thanks for your patience!
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