[axxs-sysadmin] Upgrade of AXXS.ORG server - URGENT

[musicman]

I don't get back into town until the 9th and I wont be available to do
any work on axxs until the 10th-ish at the earliest I think, but I can
bump it to the top of the list for the end of that week if you want
some help.

L.

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Dave Fregon <dave at netaxxs.com.au> wrote:
> 2008-05-28 at 08:28 +0700, musicman wrote:
>> > ok, we have a two week window. Does anyone else have time restrictions?
>> >
>> > please shout out asap - I'd like some kind of confirmation sooner
>> > rather than later - by monday next week?
>>
>> Well I have no problem sorting it out for the 11th say as a rough time?
>> That gives me the Sunday to do the migration, and client sites can start
>> checking and clearing up any issues from the monday?
>
> oops the sunday is the 8th .. so starting the 8th?
>
> That will give me the Sunday to move the bulk of accounts over, and
> start making sure all the domains start going live on the new server, it
> will also give me the following weekend to help finalise the move.
>
> By all means if we can get virtualisation going via remote login with
> some sort of control panel (webmin/usermin) or even without, get IP's
> routed and setup for all the containers, get 60 domains moved across and
> running in a week, then support all the users with the new setup, let's
> go for it.
>
> Myself I haven't got a clue about Xen as I haven't had time to even look
> at it, only touched the surface, but if there's someone willing to do
> all this work, then show and help the other admins with how it all
> works, as well as support the users as to how they access everything,
> let's do it. We have a week to do it all, so it needs to be planned now,
> not later, and we need people to step up to the bat and organise it.
>
> The other option is we move stuff in one day from Plesk to Plesk on the
> new debian system, then just clean up over the ensuing week, then look
> at virtualisation/other choices of control panel etc etc after that.
>
> I don't mean to be a bummer, or slack, but I just don't think anyone is
> going to actually organise let alone do all this, and spend the time
> supporting it all, with the admins as well as the users. And we _really_
> need to get off FC2 asap, not 2-3 months down the track, really we
> should have done this long ago.
>
> Also .. anyone know what is happening with Borg payments? Anyone willing
> to try and organise fund-raising? I think we need to start some
> fundraising asap, as the server costs raised last year ran out this
> month, and we are on monthly payments via credit card .. as you can
> imagine funding 2 servers isn't cheap ...
>
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