FDCPS Severe Outrages thread

[AMDave]

/ed- Thread title updated to reflect new status. See thread posts below -ed/

The FDCPS Project is currently offline.
The outage was planned to relocate to an alternate host.
However the new server is experiencing an unplanned connectivity issue that may take a day or two more to be resolved.
Further information will be posted when available.

[AMDave]

Update - Progress is being made
The broadband connection has been restored.
Middle-ware upgrades are in progress and dynamic testing is in progress.
I'll update next when access will be restored.

[AMDave]

lots happening.
migrated the site from 32 bit arch to 64 bit arch to take full advantage of 8GB ram
moved to a different and slightly faster OS distro
upgraded all middleware to current stable versions and latest patches
that forced more than a few code changes to the web site and server scripts
re-factored a lot of code while going through the spaghetti
retired ChartDirector and introduced ajax flot charts
most of the bugs are knocked out
located a port 80 block in the WAN that "is not supposed to exist" and worked around it
just a couple more issues (2, I think) to work through before we can resume this crunch-fest
after that, tuning and miscellaneous bug fixes will resume in the background
back soon ...

[AMDave]

LAN and MAN testing completed.
WU's are being completed and processed correctly.
The server seems pretty stable over the last 6 days.
WAN testing commencing.

[AMDave]

DNS changes completed and verified.

In the words of the great Duke Nukem, "Come get some!"

FDCPS is open for business.

[AMDave]

The old address cannot be forwarded to an A-name address and I cannot get a fixed IP address in a short period of time.

So, for the foreseeable future the FDCPS project will be on http://fdcps.no-ip.org/

You will need to change the hostname in your llr-clientconfig.txt file to "fdcps.no-ip.org" to get pairs from the ports.

Please post here if you have any issues.

[AMDave]

The FDCPS server is running but a planned network change did not go to completely to plan yesterday so it is not available yet.
The old DSL modem couldn't handle the higher rate any more and failed to hold sync.
The new router is working fine but it won't update the dynamic DNS automatically.
I should have the work-around completed today.
But fast?
The connection updgrade is completed and the connection speed is much higher (d/l 5x, u/l 1.2x) and the available usage ceiling is much higher too (4x)
So well worth a few troubles of adding a DNS work-around.