Server & Site Upgraded
Some of you may have noticed the site was down for most of the day today and that was due to Jace and I did some system administration work.
It all started when I went downstairs to my office and noticed one of my server books was missing off the shelf. I went searching high and low and I found it in Jace’s room.
He and I had a discussion why he had the book. He said he wanted to upgrade the server from Server 2000 to Server 2003 as well as doing an uplift on the Journal from ASP 1.0 to ASP.NET technology. How could I disagree with him. He made all the right points why it needed to be done.
It was a long process. We started out by doing the uplift on the site. Once we had it the way we wanted we did a backup of the files and shut down the server. We formatted the drive, installed Server 2003 and put all the lovely Microsoft patches on it. Once that was done we got the Internet Services up and running and got the site back up.
There are some better security features with the Journal and we now require you to register with the site in order to post comments. Unfortunately we were not able to retain the past comments and we apologize for that. Feel free to register and repost if you like. There are some other nice features with it as well but Jace said not to bore everyone with the details.
Since Jace’s spelling and typing are not too good right now he drove the mouse and made sure everything was done according to the book he had snuck out of the office.
