nobody's going anywhere

A user here has been tracking down and emailing other cornerhost customers, warning them about the expiring dns records for sabren.com.

There is no reason to panic. The DNS records renew automatically every year, and this would have happened at midnight tonight, but I went ahead and renewed manually just now.

Cornerhost isn't going anywhere, and neither am I. Things have been pretty bad for me personally, but they're starting to turn around.

It's true that the control panel seems to be down. I am investigating and should have that fixed today.

It is also true that I've been doing a really poor job of replying to emails lately. For that, I apologize. I feel terrible about it, and it is going to change. In fact, I expect to come out of this with a much stronger, effective, and reliable business system that isn't dependent on just me holding everything together.

I will write more soon, but I wanted to at least get this post out the door.

-Michal

migration issues

Here's the list of issues I'm aware of. (Marking these off as I go along)

• control panel not working
• odd mailbox permissions on argon
• database connection problems from argon
• out of memory errors with php
• perl missing ImageMagick libraries
• broken link to phpmyadmin
• suexec problems on argon
• SpamAssassin not running
• bad imaps/pop3s certificates

Update: If you use an IMAP mail client and suddenly can't see your folders: get rid of the ~/mail/ prefix in your server settings. The new IMAP server uses this by default.

Update: If you have previously compiled any custom binaries on the old servers, you may need to recompile them. The new boxes are running a 64-bit version of linux so your 32-bit programs will need to be recompiled.

Update: the ssh fingerprints for the new boxes are at:

https://secure.sabren.com/cornerhost/prints.txt

Update: SquirrelMail settings and preferences were lost. This actually happened a couple days ago. My merging script accidentally wiped out everything on secure.sabren.com (the control panel, the main cornerhost site, etc). I restored most of it from backups, but the SquirrelMail settings are stored in an odd corner of the file system that wasn't part of my backup script. Nobody's mail got lost, but any settings configured inside squirrelmail are gone for good. The main casuality seems to be address books. Sorry. :/

migration complete

All files have been moved over and everything is up and running.

Please let me know if you run into any problems.

migration underway

All five old servers are now down so I can migrate last minute file changes.

cutover starting 3:00AM EST

I'll be switching everything over to the new data center between 3 and 5 AM tonight, Eastern time.

The servers will be down while I do a final sync of updated files, though I don't expect them to be offline for the full two hours.

As a user, you shouldn't need to do anything, unless you use your own external DNS. In that case, you need to update to the new IP addresses:

   # old mercury and manganese users:
   neon.sabren.com (50.28.14.224)

   # old scandium, titanium, and vanadium users:
   argon.sabren.com (50.28.14.226)