gator436 :: LiveCD

#1 12-07-2008, 04:30 AM

I am putting gator436 into a livecd for emergency maintenance.

We appreciate your patience.

jmarty · #2 12-07-2008, 04:59 AM

Just replying to get a instant email notification of updates to this thread.

#3 12-07-2008, 05:05 AM

The server is now back online.

changlinn · #4 12-07-2008, 06:15 AM

Thanks for the speedy recovery.
Anyway is there any reason you don't have the servers virtualised and just move them around, or have the virtual servers in apache migrated over to another server automatically during a failover.

***GatorFord*** · #5 12-09-2008, 01:09 PM

At this point virtualization of servers is obviously possible, it's just not our current business model at this time. Our CTO and other upper tiers including myself continue to find common issues, take steps to resolve them moving forward, and find areas where we can provide a better service to our customers or break new ground. At this point is not currently practical for too many reasons to list here for us at HostGator to have this kind of setup. It would be an excessively large migration to begin with and then the ends would have to justify the means for us as well. Furthermore, IP's would be an issue as the way our datacenter provisions IP's is all based on VLAN so physical machine location would come into play.

The VLAN IP restriction is the largest issue we would have with migrating Apache to other machines that weren't in the same datacenter. As this is a network status thread and gator436 is back online and responding this thread will be closed out at this time. You can certainly open up a new thread in the Suggestions area of our forums if you'd like to discuss this further. Thanks!