NABUUR is moving to a new server - Friday June 10th

This Friday, June 10th, the Nabuur community will be migrated to a brand new, but much smaller server.

A message was sent out to 235 villages asking if they would like to continue to have a presence on the Nabuur website. Out of those, 31 have replied saying they would like to stay. Added to the villages we marked “active” in our initial review – this would make a total of 91 villages that would be migrated to the new server.

We will be reviewing this list again to make sure all of these should be moved. The initial message did bounce back from several villages (about 30 total) – Pelle will be sending the list of those who responded including a list of the bounced messages so that we can review and determine if any of those villages need to be moved as well. We need to have a finalized list of who to move to Frans by Thursday this week as the server migration will take place this Friday, June 10th.

There are a total of 18,436 neighbours that have never logged in to the existing Nabuur site. This means either they joined before July 2008 and were active at one time, or they never activated their account when Nabuur last moved to the current site (which accounts for the majority of these). All are in agreement that these profiles need to be archived and NOT moved to the new server. People will be able to create an account on the new server if they decide to come back.

Nabuur must be migrated to the new server within the next 12 days. Frans, Pelle, Rolf and perhaps some others will be meeting on Friday to begin this migration. It is important to note this move is to a new SERVER, it is NOT migration to the new Nabuur website. There could be some unexpected bumps in the road with the server migration, but that will not be known until it happens. Once this migration happens, fewer villages will be visible – the rest will be archived. This should be the only noticeable change to active Nabuur users.

How long will this take?

According to Frans, they need to take the existing database, run the clean up script (roughly a 12-hour job) and then set up the new site. After this, the switch can take place in roughly an hour or so.

The log-in to Nabuur will be disabled before they migrate the database. The current Nabuur site will still be visible, but you will not be able to post new messages and volunteers will not be able to create a profile while this move occurs. Once the cleaned-up server is up and running, the domain www.nabuur.com will be pointed to the new server and things should run normally.

If anyone has any problems, please be sure to post or contact us and let us know. We're all hoping everything goes smoothly with the move.

--copy of original post by Jennifer Wells--