On Mon, 12 May 2003, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
I'd really rather not do that. The setup on Pliny
has become crufty
and hard to maintain. I went out of my way to install the software on
Larousse in a cleaner, simpler layout. Transfer of the English wiki
should be simple and quick, and will get rid of much of the server
load. Each of the remaining ones can be transferred on at a time,
using DNS, which will be fine because they can run on both servers
while the DNS propogates without any problem (that probably wouldn't
work as well for the English one).
Okay, let me spell this out again. :)
Right now, all wikis are served from the same IP address on the same
machine.
If we swap IP addresses, all wikis are served from the same IP address,
but now they're all on the other machine. That means we must make
provisions to serve all phase 3 wikis on the new machine immediately upon
making the switch.
If, instead, we adjust the DNS, we can individually move each wiki to the
new server one at a time or in a bunch, but need to make provisions for
each one that we switch to leave the old machine in a non-dangerous state
for that wiki while the change propogates (which will be reduced by
dropping the TTL ahead of time).
If I'm missing something here, please let me know.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)