Giant Bomb Is Moving Servers Thursday Morning

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Edited By staff  Staff
It's moving day for this little guy.
It's moving day for this little guy.

Giant Bomb and Comic Vine will be in read-only mode from 7 AM until approximately 9 AM Pacific Time on Thursday while we move our servers to a new colocation facility. During this time, posts to the forums, wiki edits, personal messages, and other site changes may not be copied to our new servers, so you may not wish to make any major changes during this time, and you may see some weirdness such as disappearing forum posts if you do attempt to write anything to the site. However, you can still read all available posts and content. After 9 AM, you should be pointed at the new location, but if you continue to see a red bar across the top of the site, you may need to refresh your DNS. You can find some instructions on how to do that here, although the specific techniques will vary based on your operating system.

Apologies for the disruption. In the long run we hope that this move will improve site stability and reduce downtime.

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#1  Edited By Deltan

So long AWS? Nice.

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I experience oddness everyday on this site.

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Oddness = Giant Bomb.

But thanks for the heads up!

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#4  Edited By iamjohn
@deltan said:

So long AWS? Nice.

But think about all the good times AWS gave us. Like that week where all their servers broke and Giant Bomb and all the other Whiskey sites went down.

Well okay, the live content they did was pretty awesome, but still.

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you're a server

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#6  Edited By audiosnow

We trust you to deliver our groceries, Amazon, just not our websites.

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Thanks for the heads up! Good luck! I know server moves rarely go as planned.

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Does that mean we can post really dumb stuff that will then disappear forever?! Rad!

Uh, I mean, so long as it doesn't break forum rules?

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#9  Edited By ghost_cat

SNIIIIIDERRRRRRR!!!!

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#10  Edited By mrpibb

@mooseymcman: we won't have the wild wild west as the data will be copied over, so don't do dumb stuff. It'll be in the new colo.

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#11  Edited By csl316

Server? I hardly even know her!

What am I doing.

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@mrpibb: I was joking. Mostly just trying to get a rise out of one of the mods.

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@mooseymcman: all good, just want to make sure nobody gets banned needlessly :)

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#16  Edited By Grimluck343

Does that mean we can post really dumb stuff that will then disappear forever?! Rad!

Uh, I mean, so long as it doesn't break forum rules?

Remember the beta version of the site? So rad.

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Right when I post all my content, huh? Damn. Guess everything's going up early.

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@csl316 said:

Server? I hardly even know her!

What am I doing.

Practicing for Vaudeville?

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@mooseymcman said:

Does that mean we can post really dumb stuff that will then disappear forever?! Rad!

Uh, I mean, so long as it doesn't break forum rules?

Remember the beta version of the site? So rad.

That's Precisely what I was referencing.

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Burn in shit, AWS.

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@hailinel said:

@csl316 said:

Server? I hardly even know her!

What am I doing.

Practicing for Vaudeville?

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@graf1k said:

@hailinel said:

@csl316 said:

Server? I hardly even know her!

What am I doing.

Practicing for Vaudeville?

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Whatever I did, I'm glad it resulted in this being posted.

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@csl316 said:

Server? I hardly even know her!

What am I doing.

gods work

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Someone better tell @marino , I hear he's got like hundreds of pictures to upload. Also, I hope pictures load a bit faster after this move =]

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That picture makes it all worth it.

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Oddness on this website? Why I never.

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#27  Edited By EarlessShrimp

@grimluck343 said:

@mooseymcman said:

Does that mean we can post really dumb stuff that will then disappear forever?! Rad!

Uh, I mean, so long as it doesn't break forum rules?

Remember the beta version of the site? So rad.

That's Precisely what I was referencing.

We don't need anyone getting needlessly banned. Who else will protect us from the plights of Maine?

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#28  Edited By weegieanawrench

Sounds good, but I'll be at work unfortunately, so I'll miss any shenanigans that result from the migration.

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You mean I might have to actually study instead of slacking off and watching GB videos tomorrow?

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Hamster

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#31  Edited By MeAuntieNora

The minute I first saw you on that piano eating popcorn, I knew you were no ordinary hamster.

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I hope no one ends up like hizang in this dystopia.

actually there's a few users who i wouldn't mind ending up like hizang

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#33  Edited By mrchup0n

IS THIS PROFESSIONAL MESSAGE TO COMPENSATE FOR UNPROFESSIONAL FRIDAYS

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I will be taking an exam during this time, so at the very least I won't be here to mess anything up.

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hamsters are vile devil creatures. rats 4 lyfe.

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TWO HOURS without distractions from life and priorities and stuff!?NOOOOOO!!!!

Farewell for now and good luck moving, Giant Robot.

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Very cool news.

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whoah bustin' out the ole @staff user account.

Haven't seen that one in years!

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#40  Edited By GaspoweR

@grimluck343 said:

@mooseymcman said:

Does that mean we can post really dumb stuff that will then disappear forever?! Rad!

Uh, I mean, so long as it doesn't break forum rules?

Remember the beta version of the site? So rad.

That's Precisely what I was referencing.

Oh I remember it fondly

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#41  Edited By Brendan

I want to headrub that hamster with one finger so bad! Adorable!!

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#42  Edited By cerberus3dog

I always wondered if hamsters are like crazy coordinated. I would think their legs would fall through the gaps in the hamster wheel. BUT I'VE NEVER SEEN THAT HAPPEN.

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@csl316 said:

Server? I hardly even know her!

What am I doing.

That means Einhander would be out of question.

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I wonder if and how long the site will be fucked for a period of time.

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@gaspower said:

@mooseymcman said:

@grimluck343 said:

@mooseymcman said:

Does that mean we can post really dumb stuff that will then disappear forever?! Rad!

Uh, I mean, so long as it doesn't break forum rules?

Remember the beta version of the site? So rad.

That's Precisely what I was referencing.

Oh I remember it fondly

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Goddamn I really missed the beta site. Those were the best of times.

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@iamjohn said:
@deltan said:

So long AWS? Nice.

But think about all the good times AWS gave us. Like that week where all their servers broke and Giant Bomb and all the other Whiskey sites went down.

Well okay, the live content they did was pretty awesome, but still.

AWS is a fantastic service and is up 99% of the time. That means yes, a few days a year, services could be down, but in my experience it's down maybe once every couple years and if you have DR properly set up, clients shouldn't see much downtime at all. Even moving to a new service or new server locations at AWS won't change as much as people think. I've seen very reliable local data centers go down as much or more so due to issues with local IP's, generators, crazy power outages, etc.

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Godspeed, GiantBomb.

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Just curious, going to Azure or something else?

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Daaave, site's down.