Move the website/message areas off the main Seti Servers

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Message 1870224 - Posted: 31 May 2017, 0:31:24 UTC

The idea is to not take down the website/message areas every Tuesday even if the Seti Servers are off line.

Surely, banners could be added to the website/message areas to announce the Seti Servers are down for maintenance.

So no one would be posting about no access.

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Message 1870290 - Posted: 31 May 2017, 10:54:13 UTC - in response to Message 1870224.  

The forums use the BOINC master & replica databases to store the number and content of posts & show the credit & RAC amounts. To move them outside of the BOINC back-end would mean a major overhaul that we have no personnel for.
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Message 1871941 - Posted: 9 Jun 2017, 13:28:08 UTC - in response to Message 1870290.  

The forums use the BOINC master & replica databases to store the number and content of posts & show the credit & RAC amounts. To move them outside of the BOINC back-end would mean a major overhaul that we have no personnel for.


Ah, didn't think about that particular connection. You would have to setup a table replication with all that information on a different server and then keep it synchronized. Ouch.

Oh, well. It was an idea :(

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