Harald Ponce de Leon Posted August 8, 2017 Share Posted August 8, 2017 Hi All.. Our websites were scheduled to go offline this past night due to moving to a new datacentre. The servers came back online earlier than planned and during the downtime, all requests were being forwarded to another server hosting a status maintenance page. Did anyone experience a total blackout instead of being forwarded to the status maintenance page? We'll need to take down our websites again in the coming weeks for around 30 minutes when the forum software is updated to the latest version. There are some code changes to perform here with the user account integration between our websites and the updated forum software version, and rather than serve a broken login process, the websites will be briefly taken offline. We'll have a failover ip address setup later this year to allow us to serve a maintenance page when needed rather than relying on DNS changes. Everything was configured fine and in time so I hope no one was being served a "server not reachable" browser message. Kind regards, , osCommerce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankl Posted August 8, 2017 Share Posted August 8, 2017 Mine was redirected fine. osCommerce user since 2003! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harald Ponce de Leon Posted August 8, 2017 Author Share Posted August 8, 2017 Perfect! The DNS ttl cache was changed from 8 hours to 5 minutes. This was needed to redirect the requests to a different IP address. The DNS record was updated about half an hour earlier to give it extra time to propagate world wide. The IP addresses were then restored back on the DNS record when the servers came back online and it shouldn't have taken longer than 5 minutes to take affect world wide. This step won't be needed with a failover IP address as the network stack would take care of that automatically in the background. , osCommerce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥Gyakutsuki Posted August 8, 2017 Share Posted August 8, 2017 I haven't problem for me. i saw the website was under maintenance. Regards ----------------------------------------- Loïc Contact me by skype for business Contact me @gyakutsuki for an answer on the forum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonbec Posted August 8, 2017 Share Posted August 8, 2017 +1 (FRANCE) with OsC 2.2 since 2006 ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Cole Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 I was forwarded to the status maintenance page. Dan Need help? See this thread and provide the information requested. Is your version of osC up to date? You'll find the latest osC community version (CE Phoenix) here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harald Ponce de Leon Posted August 9, 2017 Author Share Posted August 9, 2017 Thanks for the feedback! , osCommerce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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