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Planning a migration to a newer server/OS.
Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2026 9:34 pm
by Dr_Jones
Hello all,
I'm planning to migrate the forum to a new server/OS in the near future. Due to the overwhelming amount of bot-traffic to this website (for some reason) I am looking into measurements to take. This means an upgrade of the OS. The best way to do this is to do a clean install and add some counter-measurements with that.
This won't be done within a month, I will be migrating some other websites first to test. The Zoolook forum will be the last that will be moved. I will keep you updated here.
Re: Planning a migration to a newer server/OS.
Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2026 9:58 am
by Dr_Jones
To give an indication: this is the CPU usage in the past month.
The past hour was crazy...
I added an extra core on monday to ease the pain.
This is disk usage in the past month:
You can see it at the start page:
In total there were 93209 users :: 21 registered, 3 bots, 1 hidden and 93184 guests active over the last 24 hours
These are mostly bots.
Re: Planning a migration to a newer server/OS.
Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2026 11:26 pm
by Dr_Jones
I have decreased the amount of forums and topics a Guest user can see, to reduce bot traffic. I will be migrating the forum itself to a new server soon, since I now have more time.
Re: Planning a migration to a newer server/OS.
Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2026 2:51 am
by Adam
As a guest before I log in there are no forums visible, just says "This board has no forums"
I noticed last night over 1400 guests online & the forum had slowed to a crawl, took at least 2 minutes to load fully
Re: Planning a migration to a newer server/OS.
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2026 7:53 pm
by Dr_Jones
The "guests" are bots (not identifying as bots) coming from a range of IP addresses which means banning an ip-range is more effective nowadays. It's almost giving me a headache.
Progress on the new server: I migrated jeanmicheljarre.nl there (and some other websites) and successfully installed Anibus. It does a bot check just like cloudflare does, which is good. I will do a migration of zoolook this week and I'll do some testing there too.
Re: Planning a migration to a newer server/OS.
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2026 6:19 pm
by Dr_Jones
I will move the zoolook.nl domain to my own hosting provider. This means I have easier control over moving the site to a new server. I got the moving code from Beatle and I will move it tonight. This might result in a temporary downtime, since the DNS of my hosting provider has to propagate the settings to the old server.
Once that is done, I can start with the real job: moving to the new server.
Re: Planning a migration to a newer server/OS.
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2026 11:35 pm
by Dr_Jones
Domain has been moved
Re: Planning a migration to a newer server/OS.
Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2026 1:59 pm
by Dr_Jones
I'm planning the migration on Sunday evening. It's usually the quietest moment.
Re: Planning a migration to a newer server/OS.
Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2026 10:12 pm
by Dr_Jones
Server is migrated. Also updated to 3.3.17.
If you experience any problems, let me know via email or in this topic.
Next step will be configuring Anibus for this website.
Re: Planning a migration to a newer server/OS.
Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2026 7:24 pm
by Adam
All good here, no issues so far