750 Words Status

Current estimated completion time: 6-7pm PST

5:39pm - The migration is done and it looks like it worked! Now, apparently DNS has to propagate and you should start getting to the real site when you go to 750words.com.  Let me know if you see anything out of the ordinary happening.

3:59pm - From my migration assistant: “The initial backup is finished and the backup file was uploaded to your VPS. It is currently in the process of restoring the account on your server now. It looks like it should be finished shortly (about 6.4GB out of 6.8 have been restored). Once the restore is finished, the final step will be the DNS change.” Exciting!

2:39pm - The migration is restarted. They’ll be updating me in an hour.

2:14pm - The first sign of problems.  My “migration assistant” just informed me that ” While setting up the migration, I noticed an issue with the IP addresses not configured properly on our Nameservers. This issue has been fixed, but it will take about 2 hours to fully update. Unfortunately, I will be unable to continue with the migration until this update is complete. I’ve set this to re-open again at 6pm EST to begin the migration again.”  Not a promising start, I admit.  I’m going to just keep the site offline for now since it doesn’t make much sense to turn it back on and then back off in an hour.  Stay tuned…

1:01pm - I just started redirecting traffic to this blog from 750words.com.  Remain calm.  Use this form if you know for a fact that you won’t be able to write your words before the end of the day (we hope to have the site back up and working by 5pm PST).

Thank you for your patience during this move.  Server migrations stress me out, so rest assured that nobody’s having fun on this end of the screen.  :)