Side-effects of the Server Move

Have you noticed any side-effects from the server migration? (Aside from difference in performance.)

Here's one:

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Re: Side-effects of the Server Move by Jazz (Curate) on Jan 31, 2002 at 04:21 UTC
Wouldn't know if this is a server-move issue or perhaps a change in the Voting/Experience System, but after logging in today, I noticed that I had 5 votes available instead of 20. No biggie, though -- I'm sure there's much more important things to be attended to first :) Update 1/31. Back to 20 votes. You guys are amazing :)	[reply]
Re: Side-effects of the Server Move by talexb (Chancellor) on Jan 31, 2002 at 03:25 UTC
The "Add daily XP ration" function is not enabled .. hence no one can wote on anything. This most likely puts less load on the database -- in fact, it means the database can be left in "read-only" mode. Probably very convenient until the move is ironed out. --t. alex "Of course, you realize that this means war." -- Bugs Bunny.	[reply]
Re: Re: Side-effects of the Server Move by chipmunk (Parson) on Jan 31, 2002 at 14:35 UTC
If the database is in read-only mode, how are all these new nodes being posted? :D	[reply]
Re (tilly) 1: Side-effects of the Server Move by tilly (Archbishop) on Jan 31, 2002 at 02:16 UTC
Well you knocked one of them off...	[reply]
Re: Re (tilly) 1: Side-effects of the Server Move by boo_radley (Parson) on Jan 31, 2002 at 02:59 UTC
hey, there goes another! Good job, tilly.	[reply]
Re: Side-effects of the Server Move by blakem (Monsignor) on Feb 01, 2002 at 08:41 UTC
Just two that I've noticed.... First all the timestamps seem to be shifted by 5 hours. I don't know if this is a UTC/GMT v. EST issue or not, but its quite minor. Second, some of my personal links broke becase they pointed at '/index.pl' instead of './index.pl' or just 'index.pl' Since they don't take into consideration the new base of ~monkads/ they all broke. Again though, its just a minor point. I know how difficult server-moves can be on an IT team. I'd just like to express my thanks to the faithful volunteers who got the job done. Well done guys! p.s. Is it just me, or is the site noticeably faster in its new home? I've consistently gotten ping times around 10ms!! Update: Those ping times are from my server in philadelphia, so which appears to be only a few hundred miles away from the new pelmonks servers. -Blake	[reply]
Re: Side-effects of the Server Move by talexb (Chancellor) on Jan 31, 2002 at 17:30 UTC
Well, thanks to the kind person who gave me `--` on this node because my post got eaten when the server went away earlier this morning. Here's what I tried to post: I uploaded a new picture for my home node but the result is that you see the "missing graphic" thingi instead. So it looks like this is one thing that hasn't made the transfer successfully. I'm sure it will get fixed -- I can wait -- but I thought I'd mention it. --t. alex "Of course, you realize that this means war." -- Bugs Bunny.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Side-effects of the Server Move by gmax (Abbot) on Jan 31, 2002 at 07:25 UTC
I notice one small difference, which was confusing me when writing a reference to a node. Previously, we had our addresses as `index.pl?node_id=xxxxxx&lastnode_id=yyyyyy` [download] Now, the addresses look like `index.pl?lastnode_id=yyyyyy&node_id=xxxxxx` [download] I have to be careful when I want to quote a node. update Just to clarify. When I quote a node, I always use the `[id://xxxx]` notation. I wanted to say that the addresses I look at to get such number are changed. It's just a visual change for the human reader. My browser is happy enough :) BTW, this post was entered as a comment to Side-effects of the Server Move and it came out unespectedly as root node. Root in which section? Couldn't find out. update 7-May-2002 (!) At last, now the node is under the right parent. Thanks, kudra. `_ _ _ _ (_\|\| \| \|(_\|>< _\|` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Side-effects of the Server Move by dws (Chancellor) on Jan 31, 2002 at 17:30 UTC
If you're going to quote a node, use `[id://xxxxx]` or `[id://xxxxx\|blah]` instead of `index.pl?node_id=xxxxx` In any event, the order of parameters in a URL isn't significant unless the CGI has hand-rolled their processing (i.e., they have used CGI.pm)	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Side-effects of the Server Move by ckohl1 (Hermit) on Feb 03, 2002 at 00:41 UTC
I hope that this thread is still being monitored... Both on 2002-02-01 and 2002-02-02 I have seen a condition where submitting votes by way of the vote! button returns me to the same page, without registering the votes. It may take as many as four attempts at voting on a given page before the system registers that a vote has taken place. P.S. Was the PerlMonks.org move caused by not enough of us donating money to the cause? Should we hold a fund drive? P.S.S. My thanks and appreciation go out to all the people that help keep this ship moving. I enjoy this community very much. Chris	[reply]
Re: Re: Side-effects of the Server Move by theorbtwo (Prior) on Feb 03, 2002 at 20:01 UTC
IIRC, the move was for a faster box and a better connection, which I think was donated by Pair in return for the banners. And thanks to all the admins, nate, vroom, and the nice people at Pair. You help make perlmonks the wonderful place that it is. Oh, and BTW, the "perlmonks.org" domain is not working straight again for me! `TACCTGTTTGAGTGTAACAATCATTCGCTCGGTGTATCCATCTTTG ACACAATGAATCTTTGACTCGAACAATCGTTCGGTCGCTCCGACGC`	[reply]
Re: Side-effects of the Server Move by Juerd (Abbot) on Feb 03, 2002 at 02:18 UTC
At the Gates, I got these fine messages (pasted from w3m, thus including chatterbox etcetera) Server Error (Error Id 8649204)! You have 30 votes An error has occured. Please contact the site administrator with the Error left today. Id. Thank you.Server Error (Error Id 101253)! You gained 1 experience point. An error has occured. Please contact the site administrator with the Error you have 584 Id. Thank you.Server Error (Error Id 5066511)! points until level 9 An error has occured. Please contact the site administrator with the Error Id. Thank you.Server Error (Error Id 8808265)! Chatterbox An error has occured. Please contact the site administrator with the Error Id. Thank you.Server Error (Error Id 3722956)! zzzzzzzzzzzzz says zzzz zzz An error has occured. Please contact the site administrator with the Error zzzzz zz zzzzzzz Id. Thank you.Server Error (Error Id 2383520)! zzzzzzz ? root says An error has occured. Please contact the site administrator with the Error You've got a Id. Thank you.Server Error (Error Id 860325)! reply to Re: Create a An error has occured. Please contact the site administrator with the Error built-in-like Id. Thank you. sub? at Re: Re: `2;0 juerd@ouranos:~$ perl -e'undef christmas' Segmentation fault 2;139 juerd@ouranos:~$` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Side-effects of the Server Move by belg4mit (Prior) on Feb 10, 2002 at 02:43 UTC
I have noticed on a few occasions that when submitting from perlmonks.org I am sent to the appropriate node_id but on www.perlmonks.org. UPDATE: See Re: Finding unmatched brackets/braces for an example. `-- perl -pe "s/\b;([st])/'\1/mg"`	[reply]

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