MelonLand is on the move!

[Melooon]

  <---- On the Move! ----> 
Yes its really true! MelonLand is on the move! We are moving server! 

As some of you know the forum and other ML sites are spread across an array on odd servers and hosts; the main one dates back to 2020 and was a temporary server for a game-jam I was part of in college, it later got co-opted into a mini server for the Melonking.net hit counter and then later became the forum. Since then we have added TamaNotchi, The Everyone site, a mastodon server, image caching servers, databases, rss servers, mastodon bots, a minecraft server, my personal sites, the surf club, the wiki, and I'm working on the blog thing. Anyway all that is to say we have a messy mess of many servers and its finally time to move!

Everything will be gathered into one big server with lots of extra resources and room for activities  The new server has been setup with a local hosting company, I had a video call with them some weeks ago and they seemed quite supportive of the whole project which is great!

I've been running tests and figuring things out so everything goes smoothly, I do not expect any big issues but I do expect some unusual behavior 

The main things to look out for will be:

• Unexpected outages during switch overs
• Cert errors as domain names are updated
• Unexpected bugs and doodads

It will be about two weeks before everything is done; I will post here before each switch over so you know to lookout for any issues, and the forum itself is scheduled to switch over on Monday the 18th all going well.

Anyway, I officaly declare that we are ON THE MOVE 

[candycanearter07]

Best of luck!! I know how hard it can be to migrate stuff, but hopefully it'll have better performance!

[nuclearblues]

super exciting! thanks for the warnings about issues, and I hope everything goes smoothly 

[Kallistero]

 

  AAAAA I CAN'T STOP MOVING 

Good luck, and thanks for the heads up! 

[littlesecret]

Woohoo!! I hope it all goes smoothly. Glad to be a part of the move B)

[PossiblyAxolotl]

Oh nice! I always wonder what it's like managing one's own servers and all that. Let me go pack my things!

[Salty]

Sending all the good vibes to my fellow SysAdmins!!! 

[Slix]

Good luck and I hope everything goes as smoothly as you hope too!

[TheFrugalGamer]

Sweeeeet! Sounds like this will make things easier from here on out. Good luck and I hope it all goes alright!

[Eunice]

Good luck with the move. Don't forget to put a kettle and tea etc in the top box so you can have a cuppa at the new server. (Yes, I'm being silly!)

[Melooon]

15/11/2024

Mastodon will now begin to switch over ^^
EDIT: This is now complete ~ ooph that was a painful processes but it seems to have worked!

15/11/2024 @684.17

Image caching will switch over soon - images will be broken.
EDIT: Images should now be working again!

16/11/2024 @854.05

The Pad / Everyone site editor will now start to switch over - please avoid making everyone site edits until the all clear is issued!
EDIT: All clear, the pad editor is now switched over.

[Melooon]

Most big moving is now done! (Other than the Minecraft server)

Please report any issues you run into, a LOT of things have changed in the background.. like A LOT    So there is a good chance there will be new and unexpected issues! Also lemmy know if anything is unusually good! Maybe something got better!!