Our site’s aliiiiive! (Mostly)

Hey folks.

So, you may have noticed that our site has been down and had a lot of issues the last couple of days.  Whew, long story!  Well, lots of time spent on it, anyway — the story is rather short:

1. A2 hosting, who we previously used, started having major performance issues over the last week-ish, getting worse and worse.
2. I decided to switch us over to Hostwinds instead.
3. Hostwinds is awesome, but we have a complicated and unusual setup, and tons of things got messed up in the transition.

This whole thing is… still in progress.  But man this new service is blazing fast.  Here’s a status report:

Working

• WordPress
• The forums
• A cached version of the wiki.

Still Busted

• Mantis Bugtracker
  • It can’t connect to the database for some reason, which we’re hunting down.
• Emails
  • Forum notifications, mainly.  At least, I think they are still busted.  Waiting for confirmation on that.
  • Ditto with wordpress comments.
• The Wiki
  • For some reason, the hostwinds folks missed that database when copying over our databases, so there’s the problem right there.
  • They’re working on getting that transferred over today, and then we should have a real-live-wiki again.
  • That said, the wiki was completely nonresponsive on A2 hosting for a couple of days prior to the switch, so this is still a step up in that it can be read at all right now. 😉
• SSL
  • We’re still working on getting our keys transferred over.  That bit is a long story, but probably it will take another 3ish days before that’s set back up.  That’s not such a big deal as the others, though.

A big thanks to Quinn Beltramo for making this waaaay less painful than it otherwise would be.  And the Hostwinds folks have been pretty slick too.