Server Move and Server Errors & Fatal Errors

[Nasher 33,640]

All,

The site will go offline shortly ready for me to pack it up in to moving boxes and ship it from Japan back to sunny Melbourne. She'll be home in an hour or two.

Don't you wish you could pack up and move house that quickly?

This should solve the problem of the site failing to cope under any sort of load.

[Nasher 33,640]

We appear to be online. Let me know if there are any issues.

[Arrow 1,257]

Nasher, seems ultra quick now which is brilliant. Only concern is there is no 'home' page.. Will this eventually change? I like where topics from both FAFFJH and the Melbourne section come up together..

[Nasher 33,640]

  On 04/10/2013 at 12:20, Demon Land 7 said:

Nasher, seems ultra quick now which is brilliant. Only concern is there is no 'home' page.. Will this eventually change? I like where topics from both FAFFJH and the Melbourne section come up together..

Yes, this will fix once the demonland.com transfer takes place. Should only be a few hours.

If you're using the site2 address, remember to check back to normal demonland.com address every now and again.

[biggestred 5,289]

Great work Nasher.

[Demonland 74,170]

  On 04/10/2013 at 12:20, Demon Land 7 said:

Nasher, seems ultra quick now which is brilliant.

It's ultra quick because there aren't many people here yet. The real test will be once the masses are back and also once there is major announcement during Trade month.

[beelzebub 23,392]

Sharp work there Nasher

[The Song Formerly Known As 6,479]

thank god it's back! I nearly had to have a conversation with my family whilst it was down...nearly.

[Demonland 74,170]

I'll take this opportunity to remind everyone that Nasher really is the backbone to this site. The work he does behind the scenes is invaluable not to mention that it takes him away from his family.

I want to put together some money to pass along to him so if you would like to contribute you can do so in two ways.

You can take out a Demonland subscription here: http://demonland.com/forums/index.php?/subscriptions/

Or if you already have a subscription you can donate here: http://demonland.com/forums/index.php?/donate/

[Nascent 9,336]

Cheers for all the work you put in Nasher.

I had a bit of trouble trying to log in, took me multiple attempts to finally get on. Changing pages seems to log me out as well, not sure if anyone else is experiencing issues like this. I'm using site2 address at the moment because demonland.com is still down for me so perhaps that's the issue?

[Demonland 74,170]

  On 04/10/2013 at 12:51, Nascent said:

Cheers for all the work you put in Nasher.

I had a bit of trouble trying to log in, took me multiple attempts to finally get on. Changing pages seems to log me out as well, not sure if anyone else is experiencing issues like this. I'm using site2 address at the moment because demonland.com is still down for me so perhaps that's the issue?

That should resolve itself in the next few hours.

[whatwhat say what 23,735]

demonland forever!

welcome back, and great work as always.

[Gorgoroth 13,208]

Great work Nasher.

You're a star!

[Deeoldfart 8,191]

Brilliant Nasher! Our first genuine star since .........??

[Gippsland Dee 367]

our internet downloads have run out for the month, so it is back to dial up speed, but this is still loading pretty much instantly great work

[Robbie57 2,042]

Hi and thanks. Still no home page and only on site2 assume its still loading

[Demonland 74,170]

Here's an explanation why:

http://www.1sthostwebtutorials.com/DNSCacheandYourISP.htm

You will know that your ISP has caught up once you hit the home button in he top left corner of the page and you are taken to the Demonland homepage.

[DemonOX 8,841]

I still have no access to the homepage why is that?

[Demonland 74,170]

When you click on the Home button it is sending you to Demonland.com and because your ISP hasn't updated it's DNS records (read the article I linked above for a laymans explanation) it is still pointing to the site on the old server.

The site2.demonland.com/forums is forcing your ISP (Telstra, Optus etc) to take you to the new server.

When you click the Home button in the top left corner it is taking you to demonland.com and because your ISP hasn't updated yet it is taking you to the old server. This should update with 24 hours. You will know it has when you click the Home link and you see the DEMONLAND homepage or when you type in demonland.com and you see the standard homepage and not the site2 link.

Please don't bookmark or continue using the site2 link once the Home button takes you back to the standard Homepage.

[DemonOX 8,841]

  On 04/10/2013 at 21:40, Demonland said:

When you click on the Home button it is sending you to Demonland.com and because your ISP hasn't updated it's DNS records (read the article I linked above for a laymans explanation) it is still pointing to the site on the old server.

The site2.demonland.com/forums is forcing your ISP (Telstra, Optus etc) to take you to the new server.

When you click the Home button in the top left corner it is taking you to demonland.com and because your ISP hasn't updated yet it is taking you to the old server. This should update with 24 hours. You will know it has when you click the Home link and you see the DEMONLAND homepage or when you type in demonland.com and you see the standard homepage and not the site2 link.

Please don't bookmark or continue using the site2 link once the Home button takes you back to the standard Homepage.

Thanks

[Demonland 74,170]

The biggest culprit in slow DNS propagation is Telstra Bigpond.

[Whispering_Jack 31,330]

The message when I log on to the site is a bit misleading.

It tells me to try again in a hour but then when I clicked on the link below the message I got on straight away.

Otherwise, we're moving back at the old faster pace.

Thanks.

[daisycutter 29,981]

  On 04/10/2013 at 22:16, Demonland said:

The biggest culprit in slow DNS propagation is Telstra Bigpond.

i'm not sure that isps have any control over this demonland because its an automatic process

bigpond might seem to take longer because they are the biggest isp and therefore have the most dns servers to be updated

[Nasher 33,640]

  On 04/10/2013 at 22:21, daisycutter said:

i'm not sure that isps have any control over this demonland because its an automatic process

bigpond might seem to take longer because they are the biggest isp and therefore have the most dns servers to be updated

They do have control over it, it's up to them how often they refresh and so on. My Telstra phone is taking ages to see the new site, but my iinet home account saw it an hour or so later.

[Demonland 74,170]

Here's a video that explains DNS propagation for those that are interested.