We have decided that 1 to 2 hours of downtime in the middle of the night will be acceptable. Thank you for your suggestions. We will use the TTL suggestion to help with the DNS issues.
Thanks again for your great suggestions and support. Brook At 04:27 PM 15/05/02 -0600, you wrote: >Are you trying to actually accomplish "0" downtime, or just to minimize it? > >Out of curiosity, how long are you anticipating it will take to physically >move the servers from one data center to the other? If you use the move as >an opportunity to upgrade servers, you could set up new web and db servers >at the new location, synch databases and web content, then cut over the DNS. >As someone else pointed out, be sure to follow the usual advice for >minimizing DNS propogation delays. The mail server can probably afford to >be down for a moderate period of time so long as you have a backup spooling >incoming messages, and so long as you have an SMTP server that can relay >outgoing mail from the application server. > >Jim > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Brook Davies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "CF-Server" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 2:28 PM >Subject: Re: Moving a CF web app to a new physical local > > > > Thank you for your insights. I'm really not looking forward to this move >at > > all. > > > > If I use a JS redirect, would this pass all the variables through? Just by > > using a location.href function? Would form variables make it through? > > ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body or visit the list page at www.houseoffusion.com
