Server Move!

November 12, 2015 12:58 pm

For the past two weeks we've been preparing to move all of our operations to Amazon Web Services. We've really been looking forward to making this switch, and have been trying to make it happen for more than a year.

There are a lot of technical specifics that I'll include in a siteupdate post in the next few days, but the gist is that we should have limited to no downtime, depending on your ISP. We've already moved our web server processes, our development servers, and our database server to Amazon. Right now it's "replicating" meaning it has up-to-the-second information from our real database, so moving over should be as easy as flipping a switch.

We'll be updating subeta.net to point to the new servers on Tuesday November 17th at around 1 PM Subeta time. We've worked with our DNS providers to ensure that the update takes 5 minutes for most users, but your ISP may cache that information and it can take up to 24 hours to switch over.

The reason we're moving? A faster and more secure Subeta, with all of the services that we need in one place.

November 17, 2015, 11:32 pm by

Quote by Mike

even especially when things aren&;t going exactly as planned, any message is better than no communication at all.

FTFY

November 17, 2015, 4:00 pm by

Staff definitely has the responsibility to post updates especially by the time the update was sposed to have happened. When will staff learn that even when things aren't going exactly as planned, any message is better than no communication at all.

November 17, 2015, 2:59 pm by

Did the change already happen or what? I expected some kind of update when it did.

November 17, 2015, 4:10 am by

That "siteupdate post in the next few days" never seems to have happened?

November 15, 2015, 8:58 pm by

eek sorry for the triple post i'm a loser

November 15, 2015, 8:58 pm by

I was an engineering intern at AWS this past summer, and worked on tools that probably helped this move! What a cool feeling. (:

November 15, 2015, 8:58 pm by

I was an engineering intern at AWS this past summer, and worked on tools that probably helped this move! What a cool feeling. (:

November 15, 2015, 8:58 pm by

I was an engineering intern at AWS this past summer, and worked on tools that probably helped this move! What a cool feeling. (:

November 14, 2015, 9:14 am by

That's great news. Fingers crossed all goes to plan for you x

November 13, 2015, 9:25 am by

Will this get rid of the page lag from stats.pusher.com??? Hope so. :)

crosses fingers and toes all goes smoothly! *

November 13, 2015, 12:17 am by

Thank you very much for the update Keith!!

November 13, 2015, 12:03 am by

This is wonderful news!

November 12, 2015, 11:49 pm by

This is really wonderful! I hope everything goes smoothly and it works better for the site. :D

November 12, 2015, 11:31 pm by

Good Luck. Thanks for think about the secure <3

November 12, 2015, 10:17 pm by

Good Luck Keith.

November 12, 2015, 8:55 pm by

I hope this transition goes better than the Neopets one....people over there are still suffering and their transition was a year ago.

November 12, 2015, 8:27 pm by

Yay! This is exciting!

November 12, 2015, 7:48 pm by

I hope its not slow like neopets is now

November 12, 2015, 5:53 pm by

exciting news. exciting times for subeta! thank you for the update and here's to hoping everything goes well.

November 12, 2015, 5:13 pm by

Thank you so much for all your work, keeping my fingers crossed for a smooth move to the new server! Will we be able to use Amazon payments, too?

November 12, 2015, 5:04 pm by

That's exciting news. I have been really impressed with Amazon as a whole. They are fast..efficient...stable service. So we shall see. I'll be glad to have a faster smoother more secure Subeta

November 12, 2015, 4:55 pm by

As someone who went from 13 years of neopets addiction to absolutely quitting thanks to a server move: i'm traumatized. Really, server move gives me the creeps. I got faith in the staff over here, but please just blindfold me for the duration of the move and imessage me when it's over.

November 12, 2015, 4:53 pm by

Keith, good luck with the move. Praying for a smooth transition. I'm not at all happy with our server so if there's a chance of a 24 hour downtime you can bet it'll happen here. I'll just have to wait it out and hope Fireside doesn't start until after. fingers crossed

November 12, 2015, 4:50 pm by

Awesome!!

November 12, 2015, 4:47 pm by

spunds good to me

November 12, 2015, 4:41 pm by

Yayyy!! The improvements made over the last 3 years when I wasn't playing are already amazing!!

November 12, 2015, 4:23 pm by

great update!

November 12, 2015, 4:11 pm by

Let's see if everything goes well with Amazon

November 12, 2015, 4:01 pm by

Can't wait! :D

November 12, 2015, 3:23 pm by

So everyone's HA is safe?

November 12, 2015, 3:15 pm by

Yay! I hope it goes smoothly(and doesn't take 24 hours!)

November 12, 2015, 3:03 pm by

Soooo...the terracoon shows up 10x faster? ;)

November 12, 2015, 2:58 pm by

One day before my birthday?! YAY!

November 12, 2015, 2:47 pm by

yaaaaaaas AWS is the bomb.com

November 12, 2015, 2:42 pm by

Good luck with the move, I hope everything goes smoothly! Thank you for all your hard work!

November 12, 2015, 2:37 pm by

I can't imagine how much work goes on behind the scenes. I hope you're paid well. :)

November 12, 2015, 2:35 pm by

Yay! :D I hope everything goes as planned! And thank you!

PS. Bonus points to Keith for the gif. I love that movie.

November 12, 2015, 2:29 pm by

Amazon. Yes. I love amazon. All of their services.

November 12, 2015, 2:27 pm by

Oh hey, I use AWS for work. :)

November 12, 2015, 2:07 pm by

Good luck with the move!

November 12, 2015, 1:55 pm by

Thanks for the heads up!

November 12, 2015, 1:54 pm by

Fabulous news! Here's to a smooth transition!🍸

November 12, 2015, 1:43 pm by

thumbs up Good luck you guys!

November 12, 2015, 1:36 pm by

Yay! Hopefully no more site going down as soon as I hit quests buttons and running out of time on my whole quest when the site is down.

November 12, 2015, 1:34 pm by

Your account information is completely safe :)

November 12, 2015, 1:31 pm by

Good news!!

BUT

Is there a chance of no Subeta for 24 hours???

November 12, 2015, 1:29 pm by

I'm looking forward to a smoother, faster Subeta with less downtime. Especially for events! Plus you're doing it before the Black Friday sale and I really appreciate that. :D

November 12, 2015, 1:29 pm by

Glad to have better service but how many items will we loose and how many achievements. If any? Thanks

November 12, 2015, 1:23 pm by

forgive me if this has already been asked, but should we be backing up our accounts over the weekend in preparation for the server move?

November 12, 2015, 1:23 pm by

Sounds great!Thanks for updating us.

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