HPC:Factor moves to IIS 7.5

Please excuse any downtime you've seen tonight, I have tried to minimise it.

I decided it was high time to move HPC:Factor from IIS 6 to IIS 7.5 and from 32-bit to 64-bit (yippie). I am still in the process of moving things, but I have effectively done a live migration from one to the other with what I'm hoping was less than 4 minutes of down time.

PLEASE report any error, anomalies, crashes or bugs. This site is so big that almost always the first I know of problems is when you guys tell me and I seldom have not even the slightest idea there are any!

I will be upgrading the sites code library over the weekend to bring it up to standard; it has been a couple of years since I last synched the site with my class library. So you may seem some things dropping out over the weekend as I find and fix regression bugs.

Bit of a coincidence to me really. 64-bit only means unlimited RAM to me if it's an operating system I'm thinking about, does it mean anything similar in this case?

Why coincidence, did you just upgrade to x64 too?

Unlimited RAM is a misconception, most consumer systems only have a 35-bit address register (16GB) or a 36-bit address register (32GB)

Practically it means
My entire server far is now 64-bit
I no longer have any Windows Server 2003 systems to support
The site gets 7 years worth of enchangement in IIS behind it
It's running with 64-bit extensions which make the server a little safer to be out on the www
End-to-end processing between the SQL server and the httpd is all 64-bit
The performance ceiling of the site just got raised - not that we were anywhere near it

Just to let you know, the base a record (http://hpcfactor.com) is producing an iis error when I hit it. the www works fine, as I'm sure everyone's aware

Cheers -

neomagick, yea, I've noticed the same thing, I think I remember when I was here from 2005-2007 that the www was always more reliable and easier on the server... I could be mis-remembering though.

It's because I don't wnt you using the root domain

Those Android users won't be happy that you're not letting them root..

/s

boom, boom...

Sorry about that, C:Amie, I think I should've refrained from being sarcastic in that instance..

Edit-clarifying post so I come across correctly.

Edited by torchwood04 2011-08-05 9:38 PM

Slight amusing fact--for the longest time, typing www in my browser picked up HPC:Factor as first result, so I start typing the w's and press return :P .

Edited by torch 2011-08-30 3:12 AM