(Brion Vibber <vibber(a)aludra.usc.edu>)u>):
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.
You're right--switching IPs means we have to pre-install all the
international wikis on Larousse. That would require leaving them
read-only for probably a longer period of time than we'd like.
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).
That's probably simpler.
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