what is happening: BC server will be down for a span of 4+ hours when is this happening: tentatively will be June 29th, 2008, 2:45PM PDT why is this happening: server upgrade who will be affected: all our dear BC members thanks! - BadmintonCentral.com Administration.
THAILAND GRAND PRIX GOLD 2008: Expected MS Final between LD and BP . kwun ... Thank you for informing us. It's just after the Finals of the SCG THAILAND GRAND PRIX GOLD 2008. Perhaps the span of 4+ hours for the server backup could cool down comments for the expected MS Final between Lin Dan and Boonsak Ponsana. Cheers... chris@ccc .
haha. it would be cruel to shutdown the server during the finals... we will see how it goes. if there are tons of good discussions, maybe i will postpone the downtime.
Hmm, soccer match should be over by then... ...9 pm, this coming Sunday night, will be 6 am Monday morning, Vienna time. The final should be over and our Pemuda should be on his way back to join all of us... If kwun wants to shut BC down (for back up duty) and have all the football maniacs congregate, sit and enjoy the Euro 2008 Final in front of their tubbies, whilst at the same time not miss the Thai Open Finals, then it shall be done about 9 hrs. earliler (11:30 am PDT)...which i believe the TO Finals should be over also.. Btw, i think a warning & countdown might be needed...
Ready Reckoner - International Here's a ready reckoner for our down-time across the world When it's 21:00 (9pm) on Sunday, 29 June for kwun, it will be: Sun 18:00 Honolulu Sun 20:00 Anchorage * Sun 21:00 Vancouver * Sun 21:00 San Francisco * Sun 21:00 Seattle * Sun 21:00 Los Angeles * Sun 21:00 Phoenix Sun 22:00 Edmonton * Sun 22:00 Denver * Sun 22:00 Guatemala Sun 22:00 San Salvador Sun 22:00 Tegucigalpa Sun 22:00 Managua Sun 23:00 Mexico City * Sun 23:00 Winnipeg * Sun 23:00 Houston * Sun 23:00 Minneapolis * Sun 23:00 St. Paul * Sun 23:00 New Orleans * Sun 23:00 Chicago * Sun 23:00 Montgomery * Sun 23:00 Lima Sun 23:00 Kingston Sun 23:00 Bogota Sun 23:30 Caracas Mon 00:00 Indianapolis * Mon 00:00 Atlanta * Mon 00:00 Detroit * Mon 00:00 Havana * Mon 00:00 Miami * Mon 00:00 Toronto * Mon 00:00 Nassau * Mon 00:00 Washington DC * Mon 00:00 Ottawa * Mon 00:00 Philadelphia * Mon 00:00 New York * Mon 00:00 Montreal * Mon 00:00 Boston * Mon 00:00 Santiago Mon 00:00 Santo Domingo Mon 00:00 La Paz Mon 00:00 San Juan Mon 00:00 Asuncion Mon 01:00 Halifax * Mon 01:00 Buenos Aires Mon 01:00 Montevideo Mon 01:00 Brasilia Mon 01:00 Sao Paulo Mon 01:00 Rio de Janeiro Mon 01:30 St. John's * Mon 04:00 Reykjavik Mon 05:00 Lisbon * Mon 05:00 Casablanca * Mon 05:00 Dublin * Mon 05:00 London * Mon 05:00 Lagos Mon 05:00 Algiers Mon 06:00 Madrid * Mon 06:00 Barcelona * Mon 06:00 Paris * Mon 06:00 Brussels * Mon 06:00 Amsterdam * Mon 06:00 Geneva * Mon 06:00 Zürich * Mon 06:00 Frankfurt * Mon 06:00 Oslo * Mon 06:00 Copenhagen * Mon 06:00 Rome * Mon 06:00 Berlin * Mon 06:00 Prague * Mon 06:00 Zagreb * Mon 06:00 Vienna * Mon 06:00 Stockholm * Mon 06:00 Cape Town Mon 06:00 Budapest * Mon 06:00 Belgrade * Mon 06:00 Warsaw * Mon 06:00 Johannesburg Mon 06:00 Harare Mon 07:00 Sofia * Mon 07:00 Athens * Mon 07:00 Tallinn * Mon 07:00 Helsinki * Mon 07:00 Bucharest * Mon 07:00 Minsk * Mon 07:00 Istanbul * Mon 07:00 Kyiv * Mon 07:00 Cairo * Mon 07:00 Khartoum Mon 07:00 Ankara * Mon 07:00 Jerusalem * Mon 07:00 Beirut * Mon 07:00 Amman * Mon 07:00 Nairobi Mon 07:00 Addis Ababa Mon 07:00 Baghdad Mon 07:00 Aden Mon 07:00 Riyadh Mon 07:00 Antananarivo Mon 07:00 Kuwait City Mon 08:00 Moscow * Mon 08:00 Dubai Mon 08:30 Tehran * Mon 08:30 Kabul Mon 09:00 Tashkent Mon 09:30 Mumbai Mon 09:30 New Delhi Mon 09:30 Kolkata Mon 09:45 Kathmandu Mon 10:00 Karachi * Mon 10:00 Islamabad * Mon 10:00 Lahore * Mon 10:00 Almaty Mon 10:00 Dhaka Mon 10:30 Yangon Mon 11:00 Bangkok Mon 11:00 Hanoi Mon 11:00 Jakarta Mon 12:00 Kuala Lumpur Mon 12:00 Singapore Mon 12:00 Hong Kong Mon 12:00 Perth Mon 12:00 Beijing Mon 12:00 Manila Mon 12:00 Shanghai Mon 12:00 Taipei Mon 13:00 Seoul Mon 13:00 Tokyo Mon 13:30 Darwin Mon 13:30 Adelaide Mon 14:00 Melbourne Mon 14:00 Canberra Mon 14:00 Sydney Mon 14:00 Brisbane Mon 15:00 Vladivostok * Mon 16:00 Auckland Mon 16:00 Suva Mon 16:45 Chatham Island Mon 17:00 Kamchatka * Mon 17:00 Anadyr * Mon 18:00 Kiritimati Please Note: Places marked with an asterisk (*) are on DST (Daylight Saving Time) or Summer Time.
cooler is the one normally inhabiting such regions. No fear - he is in Canada now PS: I'm bumping up the time post.
International Ready Reckoner With less than 24 hours to go before kwun does his upgrading magic for BC, here's a ready reckoner for our down-time across the world When it's 21:00 (9pm) on Sunday, 29 June for kwun, it will be: Sun 18:00 Honolulu Sun 20:00 Anchorage * Sun 21:00 Vancouver * Sun 21:00 San Francisco * Sun 21:00 Seattle * Sun 21:00 Los Angeles * Sun 21:00 Phoenix Sun 22:00 Edmonton * Sun 22:00 Denver * Sun 22:00 Guatemala Sun 22:00 San Salvador Sun 22:00 Tegucigalpa Sun 22:00 Managua Sun 23:00 Mexico City * Sun 23:00 Winnipeg * Sun 23:00 Houston * Sun 23:00 Minneapolis * Sun 23:00 St. Paul * Sun 23:00 New Orleans * Sun 23:00 Chicago * Sun 23:00 Montgomery * Sun 23:00 Lima Sun 23:00 Kingston Sun 23:00 Bogota Sun 23:30 Caracas Mon 00:00 Indianapolis * Mon 00:00 Atlanta * Mon 00:00 Detroit * Mon 00:00 Havana * Mon 00:00 Miami * Mon 00:00 Toronto * Mon 00:00 Nassau * Mon 00:00 Washington DC * Mon 00:00 Ottawa * Mon 00:00 Philadelphia * Mon 00:00 New York * Mon 00:00 Montreal * Mon 00:00 Boston * Mon 00:00 Santiago Mon 00:00 Santo Domingo Mon 00:00 La Paz Mon 00:00 San Juan Mon 00:00 Asuncion Mon 01:00 Halifax * Mon 01:00 Buenos Aires Mon 01:00 Montevideo Mon 01:00 Brasilia Mon 01:00 Sao Paulo Mon 01:00 Rio de Janeiro Mon 01:30 St. John's * Mon 04:00 Reykjavik Mon 05:00 Lisbon * Mon 05:00 Casablanca * Mon 05:00 Dublin * Mon 05:00 London * Mon 05:00 Lagos Mon 05:00 Algiers Mon 06:00 Madrid * Mon 06:00 Barcelona * Mon 06:00 Paris * Mon 06:00 Brussels * Mon 06:00 Amsterdam * Mon 06:00 Geneva * Mon 06:00 Zürich * Mon 06:00 Frankfurt * Mon 06:00 Oslo * Mon 06:00 Copenhagen * Mon 06:00 Rome * Mon 06:00 Berlin * Mon 06:00 Prague * Mon 06:00 Zagreb * Mon 06:00 Vienna * Mon 06:00 Stockholm * Mon 06:00 Cape Town Mon 06:00 Budapest * Mon 06:00 Belgrade * Mon 06:00 Warsaw * Mon 06:00 Johannesburg Mon 06:00 Harare Mon 07:00 Sofia * Mon 07:00 Athens * Mon 07:00 Tallinn * Mon 07:00 Helsinki * Mon 07:00 Bucharest * Mon 07:00 Minsk * Mon 07:00 Istanbul * Mon 07:00 Kyiv * Mon 07:00 Cairo * Mon 07:00 Khartoum Mon 07:00 Ankara * Mon 07:00 Jerusalem * Mon 07:00 Beirut * Mon 07:00 Amman * Mon 07:00 Nairobi Mon 07:00 Addis Ababa Mon 07:00 Baghdad Mon 07:00 Aden Mon 07:00 Riyadh Mon 07:00 Antananarivo Mon 07:00 Kuwait City Mon 08:00 Moscow * Mon 08:00 Dubai Mon 08:30 Tehran * Mon 08:30 Kabul Mon 09:00 Tashkent Mon 09:30 Mumbai Mon 09:30 New Delhi Mon 09:30 Kolkata Mon 09:45 Kathmandu Mon 10:00 Karachi * Mon 10:00 Islamabad * Mon 10:00 Lahore * Mon 10:00 Almaty Mon 10:00 Dhaka Mon 10:30 Yangon Mon 11:00 Bangkok Mon 11:00 Hanoi Mon 11:00 Jakarta Mon 12:00 Kuala Lumpur Mon 12:00 Singapore Mon 12:00 Hong Kong Mon 12:00 Perth Mon 12:00 Beijing Mon 12:00 Manila Mon 12:00 Shanghai Mon 12:00 Taipei Mon 13:00 Seoul Mon 13:00 Tokyo Mon 13:30 Darwin Mon 13:30 Adelaide Mon 14:00 Melbourne Mon 14:00 Canberra Mon 14:00 Sydney Mon 14:00 Brisbane Mon 15:00 Vladivostok * Mon 16:00 Auckland Mon 16:00 Suva Mon 16:45 Chatham Island Mon 17:00 Kamchatka * Mon 17:00 Anadyr * Mon 18:00 Kiritimati Please Note: Places marked with an asterisk (*) are on DST (Daylight Saving Time) or Summer Time.
as Oldhand has alluded to, this backup will be expanded to more than a backup. with some really good luck, i have managed to lease a new server for badmintoncentral at an incredible price. here is the spec for the new server: Dual quad-core Xeon (yes, 2x4 = 8 CPU cores!) Dual 15k rpm 143GB disks 2GB Ram compared to our previous dual Xeon 2.8G, the new server has 4 times the cpu and 4 times the disk storage. and the kicker is, all these upgrade only cost $8 more per month! i have tested the server and it is amazingly fast. anyway, so tonight will be upgrade night. meanwhile, i am doing all the prep work for the actual migration. hopefully will see you tomorrow with a brand new and much faster server.
apologize to those who are online. since my prep work for the server migration has been completed, and that i find there are few members online, i have decided to move the downtime earlier.
that was painfully long wait for the migration. the disruptive part is now complete. from here on there should be one more down time in a few days' time and that should be it. do let me know if you run into any issues. cheers.
Any issues??.. ..nope. Everything is lookin' smoooooth as silk... But learned something. The next time kwun mentioned the server down time is 9 pm PDT, he actually meant to write 12 pm (9 hrs early)..