[BioRuby] Fwd: Pass the word: All open-bio sites/servers may be unavailable for a few hours this week

[Toshiaki Katayama]

FYI

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> 差出人: Chris Dagdigian <dag at sonsorol.org>
> 日時: 2010年2月8日 23:21:08JST
> 宛先: OBF Board <board at open-bio.org>, Bioroot <root-l at open-bio.org>, Kam Dahlquist <kdahlquist at lmu.edu>, Peter <biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk>, Martin Senger <martin.senger at gmail.com>, ajb at ebi.ac.uk, Toshiaki Katayama <k at bioruby.org>, Mark Wilkinson <mwilkinson at mrl.ubc.ca>
> 件名: Pass the word: All open-bio sites/servers may be unavailable for a few hours this week
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> Hi folks,
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> Long overdue server/system/IT houskeeping note here. I decided not to do a mass OBF list email so feel free to pass this message along to the people and lists that need to know. I'm hoping the transition might only be noticed by a few people and we'll be back up before the majority see anything different.
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> The short story is that we need to rip the existing open-bio servers out of their current datacenter and drive them over to a new colocation facility a few miles away. The servers should be down for no more than an hour or two but DNS changes may take much longer to propagate throughout the internet.
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> We won't be able to give much notice for the downtime, it could be as early as tomorrow afternoon (Tuesday the 9th). The server transplant needs to be coordinated around some other work that I can't talk about.
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> The longer story is below for those that are interested.
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> My employer (www.bioteam.net) has long been donating the physical costs of hosting the Open Bio servers.
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> We had been doing this in a Boston area datacenter where we rented a 6x8 foot private cage. The price of all this space and associated electricity, bandwidth etc. costs thousands of dollars per month (for the entire cage, not just OBF stuff...)
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> For several reasons, mostly business related, BioTeam is switching to a collocation provider. We've has already migrated the majority of the corporate systems which means that the OBF servers are sitting in a mostly empty cage that still costs thousands of $USD per month to maintain.
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> I had been hoping to coordinate this migration with the purchase of new server hardware for OBF but time has run out - the OBF servers need to move sooner rather than later.
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> The only visible change for the OBF community will be new IP addresses on all our servers and sites. That (and a few hours of downtime) should be the only systems of the hosting transplant.
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> **EMBOSS, MOBY AND BIORUBY**
> I believe we control DNS for all of our domains except for ftp.emboss.org and possibly some of the bioruby sites. There are also some moby service DNS records that we need to be careful with. I've CC'd Alan, Mark and Toshiaki on this email. I can let you know what the new IP addresses will be and can coordinate on switching DNS over.
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> There is a chance that things could not go totally smoothly - we may have website or other configuration files with old embedded IP addresses etc. that we'll have to find and fix as needed.
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> Please email me directly or send email to helpdesk at open-bio.org to report any problems.
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> -Chris
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