Web Blog of Greg Mathews

OK it’s been heck of a week.

It was the general concesus that using an iSCSi was not suitable for my needs so that has gone out the window and I have reverted to using NFS accross the network.

I moved  the scripts over to the new server after making a few minor changes to it and tested the scripts worked fine before I updated the DNS which all appeared to go great.

I had decided not to move all the html files thinking these would be recreated by the script. I was right, but as there were 700,000 html files  this took so much resources that the site became unaccessable, what a disaster.

I switched the dns back and spent the next few hours transferring the files accross.OK file transfer complete I decided to set up a round robin dns, so both the new and old servers where used to serve the site.

Then to my surpise, I noticed the error logs on one server throwing lots of 500 errors, somehow while editing the script I had left a lone w on a line all by itself. A quick fix but a nightmare to discover this has been there for a few days.

Now this has lead to a major drop in traffic, or recorded traffic, the new server  becoming unaccessable for a time along with the typo in the script cost me 1000’s of hits and Google dropped many pages from its index.

Now everything is up and running, the dns is just pointing to the new network of servers but until google reindexes the site and traffic increases I can’t evaluate what improvements the new server which has twice the memory and faster processor has made.