If some of you have noticed I’ve been a bit absent from WUWT it is because I’ve been working the last two weeks with Mr. Pete and JohnA to get the climateaudit.org server migrated to a new home.
We wanted off a single server box and onto wordpress.com where they have a distributed cloud computing system, gobs of optical pipe bandwidth, automated backup, automated code updates, and 24/7 support. I wish to personally thank Nick and Lloyd of WordPress VIP support who went above an beyond to manage the huge migration of files that spanned all the way back to 2004. WordPress.com has a great staff and a great product.
When Climategate broke, so did the climateaudit single box server. It was more traffic than any one server could bear. The datapipe to the box at our CoLo was also not sufficient to handle the load. I setup camirror.wordpress.com for Steve to use in the interim while the CA IT team figured out how to make this migration happen. There were lots of hitches. Some are still unresolved but the bulk of it is there.
Today, about 5PM PST 90% of the migration has been completed. Steve McIntyre made this announcement:
We have a new and hopefully final home. It has been a very big and complicated job moving climateaudit.org with its nearly 2000 threads, over 200,000 comments, plus images, data, scripts to wordpress.com, which has large enough facilities to prevent the chronic server problems that plagued climateaudit as a standalone server. camirror.wordpress.com was set up to deal with overthrow while our new “home” was being prepared and has been transferred as well.
What substantially complicated the move was our desire to preserve the very large number of links to existing climateaudit images and threads (which I’m told create a subterranean draw and which we didn’t want to disconnect.) Anthony, Mr Pete and John A all contributed to the move, which was accomplished during a period when I was otherwise occupied so to speak. I’m very grateful to them. WordPress.com went several extra yards to accomodate the move and I’m very grateful to their staff as well. We think the old addresses are all pointing to the new addresses – let us know if you have any problems.
A couple of caveats before you rush off to view it:
1) There may still be an occasional broken link or missing file, we’ll get to them all as time permits. Don’t overload Steve with comments about these.
2) DNS propogation may not have completed yet for your portion of the web. So if you visit www.climateaudit.org and you get nothing don’t freak out. The IP address/DNS server changes will eventually propagate to you.
3) Can’t wait? You can try forcing a DNS refresh if you own a PC with Windows by doing the following.
Open a command prompt and type the command in yellow below and press enter.
If you have a Mac, I have no idea how to do this, maybe somebody who owns one can leave a comment.
So within 24 hours or so, almost everybody should be able to get to www.climateaudit.org
Also, beyond the above, and maybe cycling your router/modem, I can’t suggest how to solve DNS propagation delays at your location, so just wait it out if none of that works.
We all look forward to Steve’s next big thing. Now CA can handle most anything we throw at it and Steve can drive CA “car” without having to carry a set of tools and a small army of mechanics jammed in the trunk.
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Great job by all. My ISP is still a little out of it and sometimes can’t find CA, but a few hits on refresh and they get it right. In no time everything should be easier.
As for E.M.Smith (23:05:47), here in Buffalo we’re facing a mix of snow, sleet, and freezing rain overnight, turning to rain by morning and throughout the day. Some storm. By sunset tomorrow, it’ll change back to snow and, depending on where you live here, we’ll get anywhere from 2 to 8 inches of global warming. But they’re not too sure of where it’ll all fall – depends on the wind direction and speed (too much wind doesn’t allow for an orderly formation of lake effect snow bands).
As for the hype of snow in Buffalo, well, it’s a bit oversold. There’s also lots of the stuff to go around – Rochester, Syracuse, and especially Watertown (to the lee of Lake Ontario – they really get hit there more than Buffalo).
The IP is a ’round robin’ for the cluster and it routes you to a given site image based on the name used when you connect. No name? You get the wordpress image:
But if you put the IP in your browser, you get the WORDPRESS image. It does, however, have a search function so that might give you a climateaudit connection as wordpress ought to know that they are the target IP… or maybe not. Worth a shot.
You could also just, for a while, point to a different DNS server. Mine are:
[chiefio@tubularbells analysis]$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 4.2.2.4
nameserver 76.14.0.8
nameserver 69.111.95.106
And I get the new IP so they’ve got it.
And there are lots of open access DNS servers. See:
http://www.dnsserverlist.org/
for details. But there ought to be lots of them with the updated info. You are not bound to use the DNS server of your ISP. I don’t (they are slower than the ones I chose from the online speed testing tool.) Then again, I have a caching server in my living room (the list here) that all the other stuff points at, so most of the time most of my DNS lookups don’t leave the house. Yeah, it’s “a geek thing”…
The Copenhagen Climate Challenge is good but the letter could have been improved with a little editing, I think; for instance:
… [those who advocate AGW] have the obligation to convincingly demonstrate that recent climate change is not of mostly natural origin and, if we do nothing, catastrophic change will ensue. To date, this they have utterly failed to do so.
A better version, I suggest, would be:
Picky, I know. By the way, what do you call someone who always takes things literally? A thief.
debreuil (22:13:02)
Delicious, Al should have looked a bit further!
Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing.
Apologies to WS, didn’t correct the lines after cut and paste.
Dear Mod thank you, this site is truely amazing.
As of 12:25 am PT, unable to link to new site, even after DNS cache flush. Tried both CA.org and CA.wordpress.org. Got an IE “Cannot Display page” msg. Will try again tomorrow. Thanks to all of you who work on this.
That ‘s freaking awesome. History preserved.
It doesn’t work )-:
I’ve tried to get onto the site, but it doesn’t seem to be working?
I’m getting the new .org site OK from the UK – MUCH quicker than before!
Well done – moving a site from one host to another is never easy. The internet is arguably our best weapon and it needs to be working to maximum effect…
Take the new http://www.copenhagenclimatechallenge.org/ initiative – last night there were 8 people online – this morning there were 175 people looking at it…
I got in a few hours ago by hitting my toolbar bookmark (climateaudit.org). I did a search and was toodling around some pages when suddenly everything I clicked on popped a 404.
Been trying off and on since but no go.
Just tried climateaudit.wordpress.com and my status bar keeps flashing ‘sending’ and ‘waiting’ for climateaudit.org. 😮
Did something get mixed up? seems like there’s some infinite looping going on?
(-:
lift off.
Seems that the wordpress link is redirecting to the climateaudit.org site which is no longer working.
Or its being suppressed by Gore 😉
climateaudit.wordpress.com
http://www.climateaudit.org
Neither of the above links take me to the new site (nor indeed, anywhere). I get these messages from Google search and Bing
Safari can’t open the page “http://climateaudit.org/” because Safari can’t find the server “climateaudit.org”
and
Sorry! We could not find http://www.climateaudit.org
Same when I click on the image here.
P.S. Mine is a Mac.
Suggestions, please?
[Reply: try restarting. I have a Mac and the link comes up with no problem. ~dbs, moderator.]
Re: Syl (01:59:21)
It’s working for me. If you’ve done the DNS cache clearing thing, it may still be your ISP’s caches having a stale record. DNS records don’t propogate! They’re pulled rather than pushed, which is why it’s important to lower the TTL as E.M.Smith says. If your ISP’s DNS resolvers still have the old IP details from the original DNS, they’ll stay there till the TTL expires.
If you’re using old XP, that has/had a really annoying feature described here-
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318803
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If you do not want negative responses to be cached, set the MaxNegativeCacheTtl registry setting to 0.
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Which means if there’s a temporary glitch in DNS, XP will remember it for default 15m and throw you an instant 404 every time you try to reconnect. If you’re comfortable with editing registry, it’s worth setting that to zero as you’ll rarely, if ever want to cache a negative response.
I’ve tried restarting, doesn’t work, and I don’t understand all the other stuff posted. I guess I’ll just wait.
Works for me.
I use Comcast.
RSS is working too.
This is the latest post:
http://climateaudit.org/2009/12/09/8155/
I just saw the User’s Manual for the Vaisala WXT520, a “non-meterological” weather station. It has no moving parts. I wonder if it is time to update all the thousands of stations everywhere. I will be getting a quote for a project I have coming up. I’ll let you know.
Can’t Steve get the old server back online as a mirror until we can all get onto the new one? Sort of reverse of what happened before ?
Andy
Doesn’t work for me on Firefox.
@marchesarosa Your ISP’s DNS server is using stale info. Not a lot you can do about that.
No connection for me on Opera at 13:47 GMT 9 November…..
AndyW,
I’m sure it would take longer to reconfigure it than it will to simply wait until the new site has propagated.