After a decade of hosting my server, the company I'm hosting with has hosted itself elsewhere, so I need to move.
It will undoubtedly interrupt stuff and the whole web site and ACARS machine may be offline for a while, but I am trying to avoid any significant interruption.
Hoppie
Best wishes for a smooth move, and THANK-YOU HOPPIE!
C
Thank you for the heads up Hoppie. Hope the transition is smooth... :)
Just got an ACARS print out notifying me of this on approach to WSSS!
Best of luck with the server 'faf' & thanks for all your efforts in that direction!
Copying in progress. Staging server is alive and partially ok. Actual migration (with some partial-function downtime) expected over the weekend.
I will not re-host everything that currently sits on www.hoppie.nl. Plenty of stuff literally is 20+ years old. Of course I keep a backup around but it won't all come back live on the internet.
Hoppie
Thanks for all your housekeeping chores!
Smoke tests passed. I will flip the Big Red Switch on February 25, 11:00 Zulu.
As far as I can see, ACARS will be down for a while as I have to shut it down, copy the database, and restart it on the new server. I will not go through the effort to set up cross-server database access and such, just to enable a seamless changeover. I am not a multibillion dollar, half-the-planet-population social network enterprise :-)
I will also have to redirect the DNS records for www.hoppie.nl to the new server which always is a tricky part as the distributed/cached nature of DNS never allows truly single-shot changeovers.
Therefore there will guaranteed be some messages 'lost in cyberspace' as they exist on server A but not on server B and not everybody switches at the same time.
For the dare-devils, you could try www2.hoppie.nl right now to pre-check the system. Your ACARS clients should just hop over if you change the URL by adding the '2'. The ACARS database is from about 2200Z, Feb 24.
Hoppie
Didn't you have something better to do today (Sat)? ;)
Actually I spent the best part of the day driving my two women around. Mother and daughter both celebrate their birthday on Feb 24th... cannot be ignored :-)
Hoppie
Belated happy birthday to both of them..
STATUS
* Preparations for changeover
* 1100Z Shut down both web servers.
* Dump SQL database on old server.
* Reload SQL database on new server.
* Smoke check.
* Enable web server on new server.
* Smoke check.
* Monitoring period.
* Withdraw NOTAM.
I've noticed that some software out there 'still' uses a decade-old URL to access ACARS. I've now set up an irritator to get this software to update itself.
Last Monday, my internal CPU core performed unscheduled maintenance and toppled all my gyros, shut down my fuel intake system, and disconnected some of my FO side air data sensors, in particular OAT.
I survived nicely and am well underway to recovery, but it will take time. Already back home for two days and able to eat pureed food and to walk a mile easily. Still. Lucked out BIG time.
Hoppie
Glad that you are fine Hoppie! Be safe and rest as much as you can. Health is very important.
Hope you get well, soon. In the unlikely case you leave sunny Florida and visit Vienna so tell me, I would be happy drive you around a bit.
Robert
Good luck, Hoppie.
Sounds like your CPU was overclocked for too long?
|-|ardy
Could be... definitely a wakeup call...
Hoppie
Hi Jeroen,
All the best and a speedy recovery.
Groeten,
Frans Spruit
Get well Hoppie,
And come back with new and fresh SATCOM insiders' news.
Take care.
Charles
Hoppie,
I hope you get in good shape again ASAP!
Take some good rest !
All of the Best from here - my car has additional stuff waiting for you :-)
Take it very easy but also rest.... I know what software people are like... taking it easy means debugging 4 million lines of code before breakfast....
Best wishes,
Alex B
It's been a bad influenza season. Any chance that's what it was?
I had influenza two years ago and I spent a day in the emergency room getting IV fluids. The flu can be a much more serious disease than many people realize.
Never say never, but the whole medical profession's opinion here is that it was a full blast pontine ischemic stroke. No scan shows any trace, though. After 5 days I have most of my balance back, my dysphagia retreats while I am slowly, carefully eating pureed foods and thickened liquids, and a distinct difference in sensory sensation between left and right body halves remains. No other effects are apparent, especially nothing cognitive or motorical. If this could have been a flu, this would be new insight. Worth coining?
Hoppie
Hi Jeroen,
sorry to hear. Get well soon!
All the best
Jeroen
Good to hear you are on the mend Hoppie. Best from `down under'.
Going better all the time. The sensory (skin) sensations on my right body half are the most noticeable leftover at this moment. Swallowing goes great. Walking nearly back as it was. Still eating purees for safety.
Hoppie
Hoppie-
Thoughts and prayers headed SE... get well SOON!
Best- C
Still doing fine... getting bored by all time spent on medical stuff... and on feeding... munch munch munch... Almost reached my target weight (downward). :-)
No significant function loss remained, mostly silliness in the skin sensations on my right side. Hm. Let's see what improves over time.
Next thing ... *WHY*?! People are baffled that there is no obvious smoking gun on what triggered this, where, and why. For now we all blame that I converted my hobby into my work, if not vocation. Hm. Hm.
Hoppie
Maybe your body just tried to tell your brain that you piled too much additional responsibilities in the past months?
(Work related and social.)
|-|ardy
Glad to hear you are improving quickly, Hoppie. You'll be back to solving Kalitta's problems in no time!
Jon
No no no no! I'll send Dorian! :-D
Hoppie
Or solving Boeing's PBCS nightmare with the 777...
They need to switch my system ON, and that other system OFF :-P