Team-BHP moving to E2E Networks. EDIT: Done!

GTO · 2nd May 2014, 10:38

Incredibly happy to announce that Team-BHP will be moving to E2E Networks soon!

We've been with our current host since '09. It was a great journey for the first couple of years; however, the last few quarters threw up many challenging situations, where the provided resolution was far from satisfactory. Team-BHP has only been with two hosting providers so far. With the first (2004 - 2009), we outgrew their hardware. With the current, we've outgrown their support.

Team-BHP is banking on E2E Networks for uptime, reliability & speed. Having the servers located closer to you, our forum ought to be running blazing fast. Just how we like our cars

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Special thanks to Tarun Dua from E2E Networks & BHPian Codelust (Shyam Somanadh) for making this happen.

The first round of data migration is complete. Our servers (3 in total) are currently being tuned, with the various software being set up & optimised. Their team is working hard to ensure that we're revving on E2E's engines in a couple of days.

A peek into the Tier III+ Datacenter:

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Team-BHP moving to E2E Networks. EDIT: Done!-5.jpg

maverick.munish · 2nd May 2014, 17:28

That is some news GTO.

Could you please provide some information about the type of servers we are using. Linux or Windows based etc. As far as I understand from my limited knowledge on servers E2E technology was designed to traverse Network Address Translation (NAT) routers and firewalls and is an alternative to Proxy Servers.

With zero downtimes becoming norms, this definitely sounds like a big step forward.

Quote:

Originally Posted by GTO

The first round of data migration is complete. Our servers (3 in total) are currently being tuned, with the various software being set up & optimised. Their team is working hard to ensure that we're revving on E2E's engines in a couple of days.

a4anurag · 2nd May 2014, 18:07

Quote:

Originally Posted by GTO

Team-BHP is banking on E2E Networks for uptime, reliability & speed. Having the servers located closer to you, our forum ought to be running blazing fast. Just how we like our cars

Thank you and congratulations to you also. Hope we have a longer, better association with E2E Networks.

Waiting for the update on completion of the transfer of data and changeover to E2E.

Hope to have no more downtime from E2E apart from the regular maintenence.

Anurag.

AlphaLamb · 2nd May 2014, 19:10

This is indeed good news with the site being hosted on a local Datacenter, should definitley help with better control over the forum/content by providing easier access and accountability.

Hope TBHPs relationship with the datacenter is a long and fruitful one.

Jeroen · 2nd May 2014, 19:15

Thanks for all the effort and good luck with the remaining part of the migration. Always tricky but it seems its gone very smoothly so far. Well done!

Jeroen

amit_arya · 3rd May 2014, 01:08

Hey GTO

Not sure about pricing. however how about extreme peace of mind?
Akamai CDN with Amazon AWS ???

You would be able to control cost through the power of cloud and should able to meet the technological requirements off the site.

since many big sites use either of these two I am sure they would be professional and have a good SLA.

Regards

GTO · 3rd May 2014, 12:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by maverick.munish

Could you please provide some information about the type of servers we are using

Includes Dual Deca-core Xeon 2670 V2 CPUs, lots of RAM, SSDs & raid arrays.

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E2E technology was designed to traverse Network Address Translation (NAT) routers and firewalls and is an alternative to Proxy Servers.

E2E Networks is the name of our new hosting provider

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Originally Posted by a4anurag

Hope to have no more downtime from E2E apart from the regular maintenence.

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Originally Posted by AlphaLamb

Hope TBHPs relationship with the datacenter is a long and fruitful one.

We hope so too and are confident of a strong association. Good thing is, they're a bunch of geeks who understand technology, and are also fans of Team-BHP!

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Originally Posted by Jeroen

Thanks for all the effort and good luck with the remaining part of the migration. Always tricky but it seems its gone very smoothly so far.

Tricky, you bet. So much to do.

Do note that we're still at the old webhost and should be moving in a couple of days.

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Originally Posted by amit_arya

Akamai CDN with Amazon AWS ???

An option that was considered, but not for us. Period. We were looking at a fully-managed solution.

We'd rather focus on cars and be hands off the server stuff, leaving that area to professionals. It's not our core competency at all.

shashi63 · 3rd May 2014, 18:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by GTO

Incredibly happy to announce that Team-BHP will be moving to E2E Networks soon!

Good Show!

Hopefully all will be well and speeds super fast!

anilagdr · 4th May 2014, 16:35

This seems to be a great news (from what little I understand about technology) and is definitely a milestone in the growth of this wonderful forum.

Cyrus_the_virus · 4th May 2014, 20:22

Congratulations! Looking forward to faster and more reliable site.

Quote:

Originally Posted by GTO

An option that was considered, but not for us. Period. We were looking at a fully-managed solution.

We'd rather focus on cars and be hands off the server stuff, leaving that area to professionals. It's not our core competency at all.

If at all in the future, you consider this option, please let me know. Fully managed AWS is available.

GTO · 10th May 2014, 15:40

We're now live & running on our new servers

Request: If you should spot any errors or bugs, please list them here itself. We'll fix it at the earliest

NOTE: The login error (and account locked out PM issue) has been solved.

Thanks!

Amarendranath · 10th May 2014, 16:36

The site seems to be blazing fast after the upgrade! The load time has significantly improved. Also all the previous bugs in the mobile app have been fixed. Congratulations and thank you to GTO and team!

anilagdr · 10th May 2014, 16:46

Yes, the site is loading faster, Congratulations to GTO and his team and all those who helped in this venture.

Rehaan · 10th May 2014, 16:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by Amarendranath

Also all the previous bugs in the mobile app have been fixed.

Hi Amarendranath,

Could you expand on this please. Exactly which issues have been resolved?

Thanks,
R

codelust · 10th May 2014, 17:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by GTO

Special thanks to Tarun Dua from E2E Networks & BHPian Codelust (Shyam Somanadh) for making this happen.

Great show today, guys. After much planning and plotting we have pulled it off today. Would not have been possible without how meticulous you guys are about running things here.

It is always a pleasure working with the core team.

Here's to a good and successful partnership with E2E and many more happy, faster loading pages to everyone!

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GTO Team-BHP Support Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Bombay Posts: 71,770 Thanked: 322,369 Times View My Garage	re: Team-BHP moving to E2E Networks. EDIT: Done! We're now live & running on our new servers Request: If you should spot any errors or bugs, please list them here itself. We'll fix it at the earliest NOTE: The login error (and account locked out PM issue) has been solved. Thanks!
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