Site Maintenance: Monday Jan 13th

Site Maintenance: Monday Jan 13th

On Monday we will be making one of the first steps in the plans laid out from:

We are migrating the Domain registrar and DNS.

I will do what I can to minimize downtime, with luck there won’t be any downtime.

The site will remain operational while the transfer is happening, if downtime occurs, it is because DNS is propagating.

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Wouldn’t it be a good idea to have a secondary communication channel with the community in case things go south? Last year when the site was down for a few days the only way for you to reach us was through Patreon messages and Reddit. I think opening a Discord channel ahead of any major changes to the site would be a good idea to keep us updated in case something goes wrong and the downtime is extended.

In any case, thank you for everything you guys do to keep the site running.

I have some ideas about discord down the line.
For now, I don’t foresee any major issues, it’s just DNS.
Worst case scenario, the DNS takes longer than expected to propagate.

The provider we are switching to I have experience with, and propagation is very fast.

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Thank you again for all the hard work @VladTheImplier. We really really really appreciate it.

thor-marvel

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The domain is now transferring to the new domain registrar.
New DNS nameservers are already prepared to take over.
We are not anticipating any downtime.

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AWESOME! Wondering if there were any metrics that you’d be able to share regarding any performance improvements once complete?

IDK if I’m drinking the Koolaid, but I THINK I’m already noticing faster navigation between pages.

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Then both of us drink the Koolaid because I absolutely notice an improvement. Lightspeed.

Edit: Yeah it’s night and day. I can cruise through everything.

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Hate to be the bearer of bad news but absolutely nothing should be affecting performance.

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Guilty… But i swear it feels faster… hahaha.

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The site’s performance varies considerably throughout the day, depending on how many people are actively browsing it. That’s probably all it was.

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Yep, super slow right now. :frowning: Was hopeful though :slight_smile:

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The transfer is now complete.
I am removing the old DNS nameservers.
If anyone is seeing the site is down. It is not down, your nameservers are being mismanaged by bad IT guys (your ISP is at fault.)
I will be checking reddit and such for any issues.

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