Zeus will be decommissioned mid-September, right after the EVE-Online Tournaments. That means we'll have a full 200Mbps of bandwidth to use during the tournaments because, if last year was anything to go by, that still won't be enough! We will be able to host about 2,000 of you during the Tournament, so we hope you'll tune in and listen to our coverage on our shiny new server.  

So my Saturday was spent configuring the new server Orion to meet the specifications we require. Sunday was a frustrating day spent trying to migrate the hugely complex array of web-sites, databases, email accounts, DNS records, etc from Zeus to Orion. During that process, we managed to wipe the configuration of Orion and practically destroy the server control panel. I say we, in an attempt to dissolve the blame. However, it was completely down to me, I broke it.

Luckily, it turns out the Data Centre hadn't build the server exactly to the specifications we asked. They hadn't setup the hard disks to RAID 5 as I specified. I say luckily, because that means we didn't have to pay for engineers to fix what we (I) broke, because correcting the RAID level would wipe the hard disks anyway, requiring a reinstall of the OS.

So, in the early hours of this morning, engineers at the Data Centre corrected the RAID level and reinstalled the OS. Just in time for me waking up, in fact. So, the whole of today was spent (correctly) migrating the sites over and sorting out various configurations. We're still not done; there are areas of the site that don't quite work correctly after migration, so we're still at it. 

 This is why I can't wait to go back to work... Damn technology.