Post-Move Review

As you may (or may not?) know, this past weekend we moved our primary application servers from one data center to another. We started about Midnight EDT on Friday and had MOST everything back up by 6:00 AM EDT on Saturday. We did have a few linger issues on some pictures for a few MLSs until just after Noon EDT on Saturday, but it was all cleared up after that - at least as far as the IDX plugins for web sites and stand-alone web sites themselves.

It took a little longer for a few things like email and DNS to propogate all of the changes, since we did have to change IP addresses for all of the servers, but that just the nature of that type of change - it takes time for all of that to disseminate throughout the rest of the Internet.

So far, the servers seem to like it in their new home: plenty of bandwidth and nice, cool, dry air to breathe! The ONLY odd thing I discovered so far is that the IP addresses we were given may have been used formerly by someone who delved into the world of SPAMMING, because I found that at least a couple of large ISPs and "blacklists" had the IP address of our primary mail server listed from late February/early March - BEFORE we moved over there! So, I've put things in place to help get around this.

Thank you all very much for bearing with us during the move!