Gotta move on
Sometime tonight or tomorrow night, the server on which this blog resides is scheduled to be moved -- physically -- from one building to another, both in the same distant city. They're calling it a "rack migration" -- those who went to all-boys' high schools, make up your own jokes.
While in transit, the server will not be plugged into the electrical grid. This means that it won't work, and when you call up bojack.org on your computer, nothing good will happen. (I know, what else is new.)
Anyway, my wonderful technical director and friend, Jake Ortman, informs me that the outage should be brief. But hey, a lot of things should happen. With any luck, he'll be right and everything will be dandy come the morning. If not, apologies for the delay, and I'll catch you when things are back up to speed.
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Also note: This will also affect your other home until the move is over, which I've been told will only be 30 minutes. If it's more than an hour, I'll be throwing a huge hissy fit.
Posted by Jake | May 28, 2009 12:33 PM
In the meantime, you might need something to while away the hours waiting for beaujacques to return. My little brother at NASA sends:
Ignore the artificially-unbloated Rush the Hutt icon.
Posted by George Anonymuncule Seldes | May 28, 2009 12:51 PM
I hope this isn't to escape the tax structure in PDX.
Posted by David E Gilmore | May 28, 2009 1:04 PM
For what it's worth, as an IT guy myself, I've been part of what our organization called the "forklift project" where we disconnected network and mains power from everything in a rack, shrink-wrapped it, forklifted it into a truck, drove it to a new facility 30 miles away, forklifted it into position, plugged everything back into the duplicated infrastructure, and powered it all up.
Serious people know how to do things like this. It should go just fine.
Posted by MachineShedFred | May 28, 2009 2:02 PM
MachineShedFred: Thankfully they're not even going that far down the road. Their new facility is only a few miles away, and they've had IP addresses, infrastructure, and connectivity running through the new building for a while now, so this will hopefully eliminate a hop in the route chain.
And no, David, this isn't a tax thing. I'm a east-side of the mountains guy, so I don't know much about the tax issues up there, beyond what I read here -- we have our own issues over here. The server is in Atlanta, specifically in this building.
Posted by Jake | May 28, 2009 2:32 PM
Downtime less than 45 minutes. Welcome to the new facility, everybody :-)
Posted by Jake | May 28, 2009 11:46 PM
Thanks, Jake!
Posted by Jack Bog | May 29, 2009 1:46 PM