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Data Center Move Goes Awry for TypePad

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sloooow-responses dept.

miller60 writes "Problems during a switchover between data centers have slowed TypePad, the popular blog hosting service. Typepad maxed out its data center space and all available power at Internap, and is in the process of moving to a new data center. The transition has not gone smoothly, causing the Typepad service to slow to a crawl amid very public complaints by its blogger customers. TypePad operator Six Apart promises things will improve soon."

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  1. Heh, I did that. Twice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In the dot bomb era, I was working at a very large porn site. We moved our site twice to escape bills. This is essentially how it goes down:

    1. Get all your DNS updates ready.
    2. Shut everything down all at once at your low peak use time.
    3. Submit your DNS changes (or move your own dns servers in advance to new location).
    4. As fast as you can pile servers, routers, firewalls, switches, etc into vans, trucks, etc.
    5. Drive at 80 miles an hour to new data center hoping to fuck that pot hole you just hit didn't fuckup some scsi drives.
    6. As fast as you can unload all servers and re-set up your system.
    7. Spend about 24-48 hours fixing shit.
    8. Get drunk.

    I'm not kidding. I did this twice with more than 100 servers.