Neowin Related: Downtime tomorrow

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On Tuesday 29th of November we will be closing both neowin and neowin5.net so that we can shift all the data to the new servers. This transition will take place early Tuesday morning on Central European Time. This means that our American visitors may start to see the site come back online in the afternoon.

The process
At the moment Neowin.net runs on 3 hosted servers at thePlanet, those servers were canceled last week because we now own 4 servers located in Chicago on Cogent. We have spent the last 2 months installing and configuring those servers. They were opened for public testing 2 weeks ago.

All the post data from the forums and news will be moved to the new servers, effectively overwriting the situation at neowin5.net. The only data that will be saved is the blogs, which is a new feature at neowin currently only available to staff and will later be made available as a subscriber option.

Members & guests can take the time today to look over the new forum setup at neowin5 forums, anyone who registered before Oct 15th 2005 can login to their normal forum accounts, or create a new one.

Whats changed?
The immediately noticeable changes are that we are running Invision Power Board 2.1.3 and the v3.9 design has been revamped, codenamed Swift the new design removes a lot of the nested tables present in the 2001 v3.0 design here at Neowin.net.

Most of the changes are in the code, but we also made huge improvements to the layout and underlying css.

The server layout has changed too. We now use 1 dedicated server for MySQL data and 2 for Apache, the 4th does DNS, web and pop email.

Marcel (Redmak) has also coded a new news script backend and the design was updated there aswell, making the page lighter and more responsive overall.

The neowin 5 theme is not completed yet, due to the fact that staff have day jobs and the recent thanksgiving holiday halted development there temporarily, its next on the list. The most important thing is to have a working situation we can move to and I'm confident the updates will be sufficient while we finish up the new design on the new servers.

#1 emmi on 28 Nov 2005 - 09:37

Good job guys.

#2 sam_goffe on 28 Nov 2005 - 09:40

ohh... sounds good guys. Looking forward to Neowin5. Keep up the good work.

#3 KTamas on 28 Nov 2005 - 09:41

I love these kind of downtimes

#4 HiddenFly on 28 Nov 2005 - 09:44

Sounds great.

(2 replies) #5 divertom15 on 28 Nov 2005 - 09:47

You should put this in red bold letters:

Neowin v5 is not going up tomarrow!

#5.1 Neobond on 28 Nov 2005 - 09:56

I hear ya, but people who don't bother to read the whole post are hardly worth the time to answer questions already covered in my news post

#5.2 one321 on 29 Nov 2005 - 01:25

But when you put it up, spell "tomorrow" correctly.

#6 cold-peak on 28 Nov 2005 - 09:48

great, looking forward to it!

#7 accesser on 28 Nov 2005 - 09:49

Great news, new server will be very welcome !!
Hope it all goes as planed,

#8 smooth-criminal on 28 Nov 2005 - 09:52

can't wait steve, keep it up!

#9 [X]-bYtE on 28 Nov 2005 - 09:54

Great, the new servers are much needed!

#10 Rich-E on 28 Nov 2005 - 09:55

Amazing! Great news!

#11 André N. on 28 Nov 2005 - 09:58

Sounds good to me. We really need the new servers.

#12 Howard on 28 Nov 2005 - 09:59

Excellent news. Neowin 5 is really taking shape

#13 Mad_Griffith on 28 Nov 2005 - 10:13

Thank you, Neowin workers!

#14 aussie-fella on 28 Nov 2005 - 10:15

really looking forward to Neowin5.

Keep up da awesome work.

(1 reply) #15 Paul on 28 Nov 2005 - 10:20

Can I say old news? hahaha, just kidding...

Great news.

#15.1 matt74441 on 28 Nov 2005 - 14:52

Don't push me Paul :p

(1 reply) #16 Tungsten T on 28 Nov 2005 - 10:22

I'm sorry about my blog post.

Im about to go make a new post to say good luck with the transition, I thought the 29th was going to be another joke but apparently it wasent.
Thanks for all the hard work on neowin5.

Tungsten T

#16.1 accesser on 28 Nov 2005 - 10:27

Good on you takes guts to say that.
Perhaps a faster Neowin will make you happy.

#17 NiceCarpet on 28 Nov 2005 - 10:25

Woo things are moving!

#18 accesser on 28 Nov 2005 - 10:29

Stupid question what time/day will this be for Brisbane Australia

#19 wctaiwan on 28 Nov 2005 - 10:32

I smell change

WOW! So we'd get NW5 before Christmas

That's nice.

Nah... Just joking, nice job people. (Y)

#20 Nelsinho on 28 Nov 2005 - 10:33

Excellent news, go Neowin

#21 Ahmed.Magdy on 28 Nov 2005 - 10:43

Good job

Perfect newsletter means Nwoein.net

#22 SamNeeds on 28 Nov 2005 - 10:48

Any news is good news - I'm looking forward to a further improved Neowin!

Keep up the good work Neowin!

#23 JMann on 28 Nov 2005 - 11:09

Nice one people, might make a lot of the members quiter and more polite from now on since this is on the way.

#24 j0j081 on 28 Nov 2005 - 11:14

nice. I'm only an hour from the new server location.

#25 Rob.Baker on 28 Nov 2005 - 11:44

woo yay.

i'm super excited for the new servers

to me, this is like the neowin 5

#26 KXM on 28 Nov 2005 - 12:12

This was posted two weeks ago on /.

#27 mysticalone on 28 Nov 2005 - 12:16

Where does it say we are getting Neowin 5? All I see is new servers. Optimized coding. And downtime.

#28 Orange on 28 Nov 2005 - 12:19

Thanks for the news. Hope it goes well ( transfer )

#29 Galley on 28 Nov 2005 - 12:38

Looks like its finally time for me to become a subscriber.

#30 mopper on 28 Nov 2005 - 12:47

thanks for the update.

#31 sLm4ever on 28 Nov 2005 - 13:16

Gr8 job ....
fap fap fap XD .... ahem ,,,

(2 replies) #32 bucko on 28 Nov 2005 - 13:19

Finally MySQL on a separate server, that should sort out MySQL connection timeouts

#32.1 xxdesmus on 28 Nov 2005 - 14:03

I hear ya

I am one of those Americans, and I can't wait to see the updated Neowin

#32.2 bucko on 28 Nov 2005 - 14:43

What I'm from England LOL

#33 Hurmoth on 28 Nov 2005 - 13:23

Yay! Awesome news! Can't wait for tomorrow!!!

(1 reply) #34 IGx89 on 28 Nov 2005 - 13:40

Finally, no more "Page Cannot be Displayed"

#34.1 Mystical112 on 28 Nov 2005 - 14:04

and faster loads for pages...

#35 TheGriffin on 28 Nov 2005 - 13:42

OMG OMG!!!!! I love Neowin, cant wait!!!

#36 dw2003 on 28 Nov 2005 - 13:45

w00t

#37 chorpeac on 28 Nov 2005 - 14:03

sweet!!!

#38 redFX on 28 Nov 2005 - 14:38

Good luck... cogent is crap... I forsee lots of issues in the future

#39 vuerro on 28 Nov 2005 - 14:38

GL guys

hope everything works out without having to quote a list of Murphy's law's

(Y)

#40 Allan® on 28 Nov 2005 - 14:45

*leaves a palte of cookies and a glass of milk for the NeoSanta(s) who's moving us to faster servers*

Woo hooo!!! speed is good ... and no more damn double postin' either!! SCHWEEEEEEEEEET!

(1 reply) #41 caerma on 28 Nov 2005 - 14:53

Invision Power Board 2.1.4???

#41.1 Neobond on 28 Nov 2005 - 15:47

I meant 2.1.3, i did 2.1.4 for future reference.

*edits post before anyone sees*

#42 fred666 on 28 Nov 2005 - 15:32

Anyone with Internet Explorer 5 for Windows or Netscape 4.0 better upgrade their browser.

#43 lylesback2 on 28 Nov 2005 - 15:43

ahh too bad it's not neowin v5.. but im soooooo glad it's going to run smoother.. neowin gets so slow sometimes, and drives me insane

#44 sundayx on 28 Nov 2005 - 15:49

so simply put, tomoro is the forums being updated? then upcoming is the front page layout?

(2 replies) #45 mariusu on 28 Nov 2005 - 15:54

it was about f**** time

#45.1 bucko on 28 Nov 2005 - 20:23

I smell him not using the word sensor properly, give him a warning like neowin did to me for that very thing.

#45.2 markjensen on 28 Nov 2005 - 21:07

Bucko, you are obsessed with this "Him too! Him too!" tit-for-tat thing about warnings. Quite frankly, I am getting tired of it. I listen to this from my kids (ages 4 - 11), and don't expect this from responsible adults.

#46 hotdog963al on 28 Nov 2005 - 16:06

I'm going to Subscribe the Day NW5 is up Me thinks

Think I should? How Much is it?

#47 Netrack on 28 Nov 2005 - 16:16

ill bring the U-Haul?

(7 replies) #48 Liger™ on 28 Nov 2005 - 16:37

u guys hype stuff too much. WTF codename a theme?

#48.1 Neobond on 28 Nov 2005 - 16:48

Almost as bad as adding a ™ to your name eh?

#48.2 Liger™ on 28 Nov 2005 - 17:16

NO NOT REALLY NEOBOND

a tm has nothing to do with a codename

PLus it was there only cause someone already took the other name =/

But as a suggestion, plz dont hype stuff like thmes like this

#48.3 BOOGSoftball on 28 Nov 2005 - 17:42

People want to know. Just because you differ from that, please be considerate of others.

#48.4 Liger™ on 28 Nov 2005 - 20:45

I agree people including me want to know anout the theme but you seem to miss my point. BTW I am not being inconciderate to anyone

#48.5 SadJoker on 28 Nov 2005 - 20:54

Well, in essence, v3.9 is a lot "swifter" than Neowin 3 ... how is that hyping it?

#48.6 Liger™ on 29 Nov 2005 - 01:58

please

#48.7 Daniel on 29 Nov 2005 - 07:54

the whole underlying codebase has changed, sure it may look the same but alot is different, if anything bondy should of called it 4.0

#49 obake on 28 Nov 2005 - 16:46

YES. This will solve most of the problems with Neowin; that being, the slow speeds and "server busy" errors. With this taken care of, y'all can take as much time as you want finishing up Neowin 5.

Thanks!

#50 stoidis on 28 Nov 2005 - 17:06

wow, 4 servers! this is enormous (i think).

Are they any statistics available for this site for the bandwidth consumption?

#51 qdave on 28 Nov 2005 - 17:21

this is awesome. finally some changes.

#52 CDog on 28 Nov 2005 - 17:34

#53 Zhivago on 28 Nov 2005 - 17:56

I hope the transition will result in a better neowin's performance. I have witnessed a lot of errors and slowdowns lately.

#54 Rascally on 28 Nov 2005 - 17:57

Wait, what's all this about the staff having day jobs?!?

#55 joker999 on 28 Nov 2005 - 19:16

yay!, Good work neowin team - the best

*try to spam*

#56 fubarshibby on 28 Nov 2005 - 19:17

Cool. Sounds good. So that little message at the bottom of the page really did mean something, just not what people thought it did.

#57 Space Guy on 28 Nov 2005 - 19:22

(2 replies) #58 Leeroy Jenkins on 28 Nov 2005 - 23:31

#58.1 disturb3d on 29 Nov 2005 - 00:31

^ da hell?

#58.2 simeandrews on 29 Nov 2005 - 00:42

QUOTE

For clarity we show zero tolerance for spam, advertising, useless and off topic comments, raising post count, warez (links) & cracks and aiding this; requests or posts that discuss circumvention of protection mechanisms, racism, threatening (citing), victimization or hateful posts that incite flaming or similar, & bypassing our word filter.

Bite me Leeroy Jenkins, I have the power of the warning below the Reply to Comment button.

#59 simeandrews on 29 Nov 2005 - 00:41

Ooh, I'm so excited! Except this is the last day to spam on neowin5.net. It was fun playing with the inline editors!

#60 ArBoK on 29 Nov 2005 - 00:44

oh noes, no neowin tomorrow!

#61 one321 on 29 Nov 2005 - 01:29

This is going to be awesome. Who knew a new look for Neowin could be so important to so many? It's going to be a great day... other than fighting through the blizzard that is ravaging South Dakota right now.

(1 reply) #62 Allan® on 29 Nov 2005 - 02:28

All Mighty Powerful and Wicked Awesome Neobond ... (hope that's enough *LOL*) what CET will the servers be shut down, and can you translate that to "The Worlds most important Time Zone time" (eg EST) *LOL*

Thanks

#62.1 CruJones on 29 Nov 2005 - 06:58

add +1 to get est time from central time.

#63 neufuse on 29 Nov 2005 - 02:57

so what times exactly will this be down and what times are estimated to be up?

#64 xorian on 29 Nov 2005 - 08:34

YES YES YES! finally!

*edit* Ok, read the whole post now, I'll patiently wait

#65 Stealth-X on 10 Dec 2005 - 02:58

Sounds good. Take your time on N5

We can wait.

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