[Box-Admins] squeaksource.com move to Rackspace

[Tobias Pape]

On 12.10.2016, at 00:33, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 08:50:39AM +0200, Tobias Pape wrote:
>> Hi all
>> 
>> On 11.10.2016, at 02:50, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 01:30:39AM +0200, Tobias Pape wrote:
>>>> Hi David.
>>>> On 07.10.2016, at 04:08, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Levente, Tobias:
>>>>> 
>>>>> The squeaksource.com service seems to be working reliably on the new
>>>>> Rackspace server dan. It has run for a number of days now, and I have
>>>>> confirmed that when I kill the VM process, the service is reliably
>>>>> restarted by supervise.
>>>> 
>>>> Great.
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> When we do the final switchover to Rackspace, I would like to be
>>>>> responsible for synchronizing the data files and image to ensure
>>>>> that no updates are lost during the transition. Currently the image
>>>>> and files on Rackspace are updated as of today, but I will want to
>>>>> do an additional update right before the actual DNS record change,
>>>>> and I will also check afterwards to make sure nothing is lost during
>>>>> the time it may take for the DNS updates to propagate.
>>>> 
>>>> The TTL is short, propagation should take ~5min.
>>>> 
>>>> Please start the "final" sync, report back, and I'll change the DNS.
>>>> (but not before 2016-10-11 9:00 CEST, I'm going to bed now)
>>> 
>>> I just finished another sync, updated as of Tue Oct 11 00:27:55 UTC 2016.
>>> 
>> 
>> Thank you.
>> The DNS of 
>> 	squeaksource.om
>> 	www.squeaksource.com
>> now points
>> 	alan
>> 
>> For some days, as a backup
>> 	old.squeaksource.com
>> points to
>> 	box3.squeak.org
> 
> To confirm: squeaksource.com running on Rackspace is fully up to date
> with all the commit updates from the old image, and no further re-sync
> is needed (*).
> 
great!


> Dave
> 
> (*) But did someone update it for me? I looked at it quickly this morning
> and I thought that another refresh would be required. But now everything
> appears up to date, so maybe someone took care of it for me. Either way,
> the move is done and nobody seems to have noticed :-)

Maybe I had done a dns switcheroo for testing for a few minutes, a race condition :)

Best regards
	-Tobias