[QUOTE=Prime95;380627]The Primenet server will be down starting around 7:00PM EDT. If all goes well, it will be revived on a new temporary home with new IP addresses.[/QUOTE]

Yeehaw. We're all expecting it will work great and we've tested the things that could be, but not under any kind of load.

At that point, I expect this "server problems" thread will once again be devoted to server problems, but more along the lines of "this used to work and now doesn't". Well, I'm hopeful that does NOT happen, but there were a few changes along the way.

Note what George said... this will be a temporary solution using a virtual machine, but the software on it is what the replacement physical machine will use. If nothing else, the disk access on the replacement physical box might be faster since it won't be shared with other virtual boxes, but that's about the only difference. This host machine I'm using to temporarily house the Primenet services is beefy. Dual 10-core E5 v2's in there and a bunch of 300GB SAS 15K drives. It'll do the trick for now.

[QUOTE=Mark Rose;380555]I meant about him editing my post.[/QUOTE]

Truly sorry about that. I made a mistake.

I thought I had clicked on "Quote", but instead it appears I clicked on "Edit". This was to get the "raw" YouTube code using Firefox so I could watch the video using Chrome (until it crashed (yet) again).

I've been trying to "make friends with my hardware" (which, buy the way, I paid for) for a little while now. It seems like Chrome crashes randomly if its windows are on either of the two Intel screens, but doesn't crash if they're on the (slow) Nvidia 1800 driven display.

Hmmmm....

[QUOTE=Madpoo;380643]Yeehaw. We're all expecting it will work great and we've tested the things that could be, but not under any kind of load.[/QUOTE]

Extreme coolness. :smile:

[QUOTE=chalsall;380656]Truly sorry about that. I made a mistake.

I thought I had clicked on "Quote", but instead it appears I clicked on "Edit". This was to get the "raw" YouTube code using Firefox so I could watch the video using Chrome (until it crashed (yet) again).

I've been trying to "make friends with my hardware" (which, buy the way, I paid for) for a little while now. It seems like Chrome crashes randomly if its windows are on either of the two Intel screens, but doesn't crash if they're on the (slow) Nvidia 1800 driven display.

Hmmmm....[/QUOTE]

It's probably something to do with hardware acceleration. Flash and Chrome both use it. Have you tried disabling it through chrome://flags and see if the crashing stops?

[QUOTE=Mark Rose;380662]Have you tried disabling it through chrome://flags and see if the crashing stops?[/QUOTE]

No. Not worth my time.

I can do without videos; and I will never enable Flash.

[QUOTE=Mark Rose;380662]It's probably something to do with hardware acceleration. Flash and Chrome both use it. Have you tried disabling it through chrome://flags and see if the crashing stops?[/QUOTE]

I find it interesting that Chrome's default settings are not explicitely defined.

And then in the following list I find many options I didn't explicily agree to were set to "Default".

"Careful, these experiments may bite"....

Edit: Carol Burnett and Robin Williams:

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfDyTUiL8xs[/url]

[QUOTE=Prime95;380627]The Primenet server will be down starting around 7:00PM EDT[/QUOTE]

Type Domain Name IP Address TTL
A mersenne.org 66.181.10.42 10 min

[QUOTE=snme2pm1;380688]Type Domain Name IP Address TTL
A mersenne.org 66.181.10.42 10 min[/QUOTE]

That's the current (old) address...

I've just taken the old web server offline so I can do a final SQL log ship to the new server.

George will be making the DNS changes shortly, but if you're itching to see the new site in action before that's done, you can modify your hosts file to point to the new server.

As of this moment, we're considering the old server's data "dirty" and the new server as "clean", so rest assured that if you manually point to the new server, any exponent activity will survive.

The entries you'd want to add are:

63.251.213.73 [url]www.mersenne.org[/url]
63.251.213.73 mersenne.org
63.251.213.73 v5.mersenne.org
63.251.213.73 ftp.mersenne.org
63.251.213.73 v5www.mersenne.org

I'd remind you to remove those HOSTS entries once the actual DNS changes are made, because at some point in the near future we'll migrate the services to the replacement hardware back and everything will go back to the old IP addresses.

[QUOTE=Madpoo;380689]The entries you'd want to add are:

63.251.213.73 [url]www.mersenne.org[/url]
63.251.213.73 mersenne.org
63.251.213.73 v5.mersenne.org
63.251.213.73 ftp.mersenne.org
63.251.213.73 v5www.mersenne.org

I'd remind you to remove those HOSTS entries once the actual DNS changes are made, because at some point in the near future we'll migrate the services to the replacement hardware back and everything will go back to the old IP addresses.[/QUOTE]

And on that note, the new server is LIVE, pending those DNS changes George will be making.

I was trying to think of something pithy to say at a moment such as this, but all I can come up with are: "Let 'er rip!"

[QUOTE=Madpoo;380691]And on that note, the new server is LIVE, pending those DNS changes George will be making.

I was trying to think of something pithy to say at a moment such as this, but all I can come up with are: "Let 'er rip!"[/QUOTE]

Getting:
[code]
Not Found

HTTP Error 404. The requested resource is not found.
[/code]

As of this moment the website is inaccessible for me. Not to sound impatient or anything, just letting you know in case this is unusual.