HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT - BYC SOFTWARE CONVERSION Tuesday 1/10/2012

[HallFamilyFarm]

Is that 6AM California time? At least some of us will still get some BYC in before it shuts down. West coast folks will have to get up before the roosters!

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

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Sorry if I'm being pushy.

Yes, but it will be done a bit differently. We had a pretty cool idea a few days ago and we're excited to give it a test!

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Yes 6:00 am California time, the sandbox is scheduled to go down tonight around 11:00 PM PST and the conversion is scheduled to start around 6 - 7 am PST.

Of course, those times are super flexible depending on a ton of variables!

 

[Gargoyle]

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Is there a prize for the last post on the old site or the first post on the new site?

 

[artsyrobin]

have heard some concern from folks with slow net connections- will they be affected by the new version?

 

[jeepguy982001]

i can't wait for the new website. Now i just need to get paid to upgrade to a gfm

 

[Danny39]

I apologise if this question has been asked/answered already.
Will our current feedback comments be saved or lost with the transfer? I have been following this thread as much as possible but I do not recall anything about feedback.

Thanks so much and see you on the flip side!

 

[kuntrygirl]

How will we know when the new site is up and running? We just keep checking it periodically?

 

[Gargoyle]

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hmm, that brings up a thought- since it's changing servers, will it still have the same IP or will the IP be changed? Because, if that changes, we have to wait for the new DNS information to propogate through the DNS servers, and that can take up to 12 hours.

Now I'll try to translate that into English.

Computers speak to each other in numbers, not words. Every site or domain on the internet, and every computer on a network, has a numerical name, called an IP address. It looks something like this: 207.58.128.120 (that seems to be the BYC IP, but I can't get it to load right now).

There are a series of key servers on the internet called DNS servers, they translate names (like "backyardchickens.com") into IP addresses. If a domain switches to a new or different IP, that information has to get passed around to the databases on all the DNS servers in the world, and that process can take a while- they don't refresh their information immediately.

 

[HighNDryFarm]

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Break a leg!

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

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We got the top peeps on this. DNS was transferred weeks ago (and nobody even knew it) so once all the conversion stuff is done and testing done, we'll be able to switch immediately.