Migrating Web Sites

Today it is with sadness that we mourn the passing of one of our older web servers CF5LIVE. It has served millions of pages to millions of visitors in it's long and illustrious career. However, following a disk problem yesterday we moved all the sites away from it and shut it down for good.

The server was commissioned in January 1999, and has been working non-stop since then with only 2 hardware failures, a disk failure (mirroring worked perfectly) and a network card working loose. So overall the downtime would be about 2 hours in 6 1/2 years! Not bad. I wonder how many servers built today would have such a long operational life.

Still, on the positive side it's one less box to maintain (and its dev and test brethren), one less thing to worry about (after 6 1/2 years stuff breaks). Our last NT4 box (whew!), and all the sites have been ported to later releases of CF.

Onwards and upwards.