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 12, 2015, 1:23 pm by

I just hope I don't get those Server Errors, it is really windy where I live and the wind is causing the problem, thank you for listening, Mr. Keith.

November 12, 2015, 1:17 pm by

meaning a much lesser chance for catastrophe? That is good news then. Thanks for the info, I don't know much about servers at all haha. I think if we try to question why neopets did anything the way they did in the past few years then we will just end up with a big headache.

November 12, 2015, 1:16 pm by

Looking forward to this. Hopefully this will make Subeta more stable. By the way, the Site Status link doesn't work anymore when the website is down, I'm guessing this is related maybe.

November 12, 2015, 1:15 pm by

Thank you for the update!ðŸ˜‡

November 12, 2015, 1:13 pm by

Neopets is still somehow living in 1999, where they own their physical servers. I don't really understand why they continued to do that after moving but Â¯(ãƒ„)/Â¯. We're in ~~the cloud~~ which means we just click a button and there is a server populated with all of our information. I spent the last week writing automation scripts, so right now we already have Subeta running on AWS (completely able to be navigated and used), I'm just making sure that we test over the weekend and are 100% ready before Tuesday :P

November 12, 2015, 1:12 pm by

Here's hoping for once Amazon is actually secure.. I've never trusted them with my info :/

November 12, 2015, 1:12 pm by

I am so excited!

November 12, 2015, 1:11 pm by

Will cross everything and hope this switch is "the" one finally. lol Y'all have been told so many times by hosts and such that you "won't have any downtime" and whatnot that I won't hold my breath but will hope that, for once, someone can actually provide you what they promise. :)

November 12, 2015, 1:10 pm by

Remember when neopets moved their servers? Let's hope it goes better than that did :p

November 12, 2015, 1:10 pm by

Thank You Staff for all your hard work keeping Subeta moving forward! Part of the reason I love being here is it feels like we're always growing and progressing as a site and provided with wonderful features as time goes on.

November 12, 2015, 1:09 pm by

AWS is an excellent choice in server providers. You can add more server bandwidth and database space with a click of a button, immediately, with no wait. It's a very good move, and even if there is a small blip during the DNS redirect, it's so worth it. Trust me. Good decision, guys!

November 12, 2015, 1:07 pm by