New pool system servers

Earlier today the website and monitoring system had several 10-15 minute outages while the databases got moved around; backups reconfigured etc.

Our friends at sonic.net have for years provided some servers that are used for backups and auxiliary functions to the main servers hosted by Phyber.

Recently Sonic.net also started hosting one of the excellent GPS Time Servers donated by Meinberg and when the system eventually starts doing distributed monitoring their servers will likely be the first “second monitoring system”.

(While looking for links for this post, I noticed that if you want to rent a server from Sonic, they have a bunch of affordable options).