Cutover in progress - mail change coming
I just updated DNS to cutover the web server to the new server. If that goes smoothly, then I’ll cutover the database too.
Soon after that, I will switch the announcement lists over to MailMan server distribution lists. What this means for you is that if you are currently on one of the announcement lists, you will receive an invitation to join the new replacement email list. If you do nothing, you will be removed from the list. I think that bears repeating. If you do not respond to the list invitation, you will not receive any announcements after cutover to the new lists. I added a note to the bottom of the current announcements. Next weekend, when I cutover, I will send one last message to the old lists with instructions on how to subscribe to the new lists.
Switching back to the new server, I have received no comments about the new server. Historically, some of you have sent in positive or negative about server changes. I’m not quite sure how to interpret the current silence. You might be tempted to think that I’m exaggerating about no comments; that I really mean I have received few comments. Even I am surprised to say that by no comments, I mean zero. In fact, mail in general has been pretty light over the past few weeks. I hope it’s not disappearing or something. Submissions dropped off for a while too. Happily, they appear to be picking up again.
- Changes in the works:
- move database writes and ad reads to new server - this weekend
- transition mail lists to MailMan - next weekend
- update WordPress for weblog - Presidents’ Day weekend
- move into new house - weekend of the 24th
- resurrect the statistics server - March
- major site changes - March/April
UPDATE: The database cutover is complete. WordPress is a bit screwed up on the administration side. I may need some downtime to fix it.
