If you can see this thread you have migrated to the new TWO server infrastructure. It's lonely here so please feel free to say hello!

Hello!!!.   Never felt a thing...... .

Think you're the first person here. Well done!

I made it through, Brian. Boy, it was tough at times, waking in a cold sweat at 3am to visions of failed connections and PC incompatibility. But here we are!

Well done Brian. Hope it brings you everything you want.

It feels so different

I'm having to via a proxy to get onto the new server.

Jeez you couldn't make this up. Has the UK become SUCH a backwater? pic.twitter.com/7malCZ4Eav

— TheWeatherOutlook (@TWOweather) October 27, 2018

Well done Brian. Thanks. I think it's a bit quicker.

Interesting point about speed Gavin. I've put the new servers in Microsoft's Cardiff data centre rather than its London one. That was because during testing the performance was consistently better. Also because the infrastructure is much newer TWO now has a "Grade A" Qualys security rating.  

Pff, keeping an A+ rating for the wolf centre's dedicated server is all part of the fun. (Edited the next bit: it looks like you'll need to enable HSTS to get that coveted rating for TWO.)

(Indicentally I ended up editing my hosts file to get here. My ISP - Merula - hasn't updated its DNS, although Google's had. I've popped the new IP in the hosts file and all's good!)

 I thought I had done that TBH but will check out.

Got to say I'm pretty impressed with Microsoft Azure at the moment. Superb browser based GUI that enables you scale at the press of a button. Not sure how it compares with AWS but because a lot of my stuff is .NET based it was the obvious choice.

Looking good! 

I'll wait a bit before posting my Thoughts thread in case I'm routed back to the old server again! 

Ah, it's HSTS preloading that's not been done, albeit that shouldn't be the trigger for an A+. I remember back in the day having SNI enabled (i.e. shared certificate) could cause a lack of an A+, but I'm not sure if that's still the case.

Here's the wolf centre's SSL report, in case you want to fiddle with your settings:

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=ukwct.org.uk&s=109.123.85.87

(There are some bits I've got enabled and you haven't, and vice-versa).

As long as they don't make it too easy to scale up and rack up the bills! (At work they use AWS - database access here, a bit of CPU there, even though it's fractions of a cent it soon adds up.)

If anyone is ultra geeky they may take pleasure in noting the CFS charts are now smoother. That's because the second GrADS (which runs on the primary server and acts as a back-up CFS apart) instance has been updated to a version that uses the Cairo graphics library to bring it into line with the primary instance.  

Looks very nice Brian. 

No problems from Bretagne (France)

That's true! However I was quoted circa £30k for a 3 year contract for 2 Windows/SQL physical servers boxes. If you strip out the "cowboys" the reputable provides are IME become more expensive and cloud based has a number of other advantages as well as some disadvantages.

Hi Brian.

Do not know whether it is related or not but I was trying to produce one of my long Arctic ice posts this pm about 4pm....

It has finally gone through.

I kept getting dropped out and then a message came up - about the 4th attempt (it was saying that my post had exceeded the size limit and that I should try and reduce the post size!) before continuing.

I was unaware that there was a limit on the size of posts we could produce, and there was a lot of charts and graph in it.

PS I was also unaware of your change and after seeing this thought I had better check.

Whilst on - are you accepting new registrations again now?.

Grandad

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Looks good Brian, thank you!