New Tutorials, Servers, and the MySQL 5 PLan
We wanted to let everyone know that there are more tutorials on the support page - we’ve newly added flash tutorials showing you how to do the most common functions in Drupal. Thanks to a comment on one of our blog posts, we’ve become aware that Drupal is somewhat of a bear in the “how the heck do I do this” department, and we thought we’d add them as we know we have a quite few people using it.
We have two announcements - one, “we can has a new server”. We’re going to be working out the specs and likely bringing it to roaring life at the end of this month or the beginning of next.
This will also coincide with our MySQL5 implementation plan. (everyone shiver and make appropriate groaning noises).
We’ll bring the new server online with MySQL5, and anyone that wishes to move to the new box at that time will be more than welcome to pick up and go over there - just submit a support ticket when you see the announcement (and which Pokemon its likely to be named after) and we’ll get you over there lickety split.
For the rest of you? Well, you have a choice - we’ll provide a mirror of your site without changing your DNS so that you can test at no charge on the new server. You’ll need to use that time to work out the kinks, make any upgrades, check out compatibilities and lack thereof during that one week. If you take advantage of it, that’s great, and you’ll be better prepared.
If you don’t, we’re upgrading the four “old” servers a month or two after that, and if you didn’t test and your stuff doesn’t work, we’ll have lots of comforting sympathy for you but we will not, under any circumstances, downgrade the servers because a few old programs have some issues. We may decide to leave one server at four, but that will depend entirely on how widespread the problem is, and we’re not promising anything - and the only way we will know is if you test. If you don’t test, we’ll upgrade ‘em all if there are very few people with issues.
Watch the blog feed for more information as it becomes available, and let us know if you have any questions.
So if you’re naming the new server after a Pokemon character, and a previous blog post said you made a typo with wartutle, the question begs to be asked. Will you type the new name correctly this time?
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DrakNet replied on May 6th, 2008:
Google will be my friend - though, you know, when you google bastoid, a whole lot of other people spelled it wrong, too, so I don’t feel so bad.
Maybe we’ll have a vote so ya’ll can correct me before I do something undo-able.
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DrakNet replied on May 6th, 2008:
Jeesh. Blastoid.
You know, I’ll pay someone else to set it up.
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Peter replied on May 6th, 2008:
You’re the wisest person I know at the moment.
DrakNet replied on May 7th, 2008:
Ha!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pok%C3%A9mon
Wikipedia to the rescue!
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Peter on May 6th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
I’ve had good luck searching through Drupal’s support forums when it comes to “how do I do this?” And I’ve posted and gotten help in a relatively short time. But the Flash tutorials will help those trying to set up.
Oh wait! I can has another LOL cat fan? w00t!
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Dyrinda on May 6th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
You can has two.
Um, I did notice that Fantastico finally noticed Drupal 6.x has been released (a year ago or so now, I think). I have been researching the core software and the external modules and I have to pray that we who are running 5.x are not going to be pushed into upgrading anytime soon. I don’t mind running Beta stuff if I just gotta, but no responsible site admin runs Alpha version stuff on a production site — and most of the external modules I use for Drupal are still just that — in Alpha.
I lurves me my Drupal anyway for the breathtaking diversity it offers… but until the community gets up to speed on their modules, I can’t in any good conscience upgrade.
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Alesia Matson on May 6th, 2008 at 5:07 pm