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Hi all,
As you may remember, RA was sporadically unreachable for about 8 hours back in December. It was caused by a failing network card on the firewall. I have avoided a shut down thus far by routing traffic to the backup network card. I have tentatively scheduled to replace the malfunctioned network card this Wednesday, June 19 at around 8 - 9 PM EDT (June 20 midnight GMT).
Since the repair will be on the firewall machine, RA will be completely unreachable for about 30 minutes, barring any unforeseen circumstances. I never know what to expect when shutting down a server that's been running continuously for years. After that, RA will be reachable but you'll be redirected to a message page saying RA is being upgraded. I am taking this opportunity to install patches and upgrade the database and file servers that can't be shutdown during normal operations. This will take up to an hour.
On a related note, I've been quiet these last several weeks because I've been busy setting up new servers. The current set of servers have plenty of capacity. They can easily handle 10 times the current load. The new servers will be housed at a separate data center to spread the geographic risk. The goal is to minimize down time to at most an hour in the event of a fatal error with the primary servers. I will test technologies that could reduce down time to a few seconds once the dust settles.
eric
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Thanks Eric. You rock.
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Thanks!
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Thank you for all your work
Is this announcement (page/link) blocking our summary page? My page is blank but for the announcement.
pRed,
I am not able to reproduce this problem. Could you send me a screen shot and include your browser info? Thanks!
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Thank you for all you do Eric, love RA !
Tom
Thanks for taking such good care of us!!!!!
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Awesome mate!Keep up the good work!
- Egmond ( 14 januari ) : 1:41:40 (21K)- Vondelparkloop ( 20 januari ) : 0:58.1 (10K but did 13.44!!!)- Twiskemolenloop ( 4 maart ) : 1:35:19 (3th M45!)
- Ekiden Zwolle (10K) ( 25 maart )- Rotterdam Marathon ( 8 april )- Leiden Marathon Halve ( 27 mei )- Marathon Amersfoort ( 10 juni)
Thank you for the updates.
The Internut
For the past couple of years I have worked part time at a running store. I frequently direct customers to RA. We sell Garmin watches among other items, and I offer RA as an alternative to Garmin's own site. Your site is awesome, your work ethic is awesome and your technical acumen is awesome. I'm happy to be a paid subscriber!
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Thank you Eric.