Win7 migration of content and sites - sites except PHP up

Stephen

Stephen

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We are moving forward to make a new Win7 server, and do a file level recovery(which is the slowest type)

We are making efforts to see if we can get any headway on the odd matter with win7 running so slowly at the source side, but have not made progress in that regard.

If we have a breakthrough in that, we will proceed still in recovery and migration as this seems to be a major problem in any case. It will just mean that we have sites up and running better a bit sooner. At this time I know it will not be restored today to the new server, but such will be on a newly installed windows 2003 server running in a cloud instance. We will keep progress updated here if there is a change, or as progress is made.
 
Re: Win7 recovery of content and sites

We are in on win7, and actually have been able to check things out a bit better now, there were a number of errors in IIS making loops that were seemingly non stop. We are working to get these resolved and at least get sites up so we can continue with a more orderly move to new server platform.
 
Re: Win7 recovery of content and sites

We've started IIS on win7 again, and it went unresponsive pretty quickly, we can see a bit what may be responsible for this and working to stop those temporary while we can work to at least make the server responsive for most people.

there is a lot of php activity going on one site right now, but not sure it if is the sole cause, but in any case it should not be enough to take all down.
 
Re: Win7 recovery of content and sites - sites except PHP up

We have sites that are NOT php based up now, and monitoring the server closely, at the same time we are proceeding to copy content from backups to the new server platform as well.

From here we will be able to make a switchover to a new server, which will allow us to re-enable PHP again.

the php abuse seen before was a clients guestbook being spammed many times a minute and holding a lot of processes, but looking at the logs it has been happening for weeks, and only today did it make such an impact, so there is some more serious issue other than that which we must address which we are doing by moving the server off of the current hardware.

The server is NOT responding quickly, but sites are loading, it is very much a walking wounded, but we think some response is better than nothing while proceeding here.
 
Re: Win7 recovery of content and sites - sites except PHP up

Giving a shot with php re-enabled on the server right now.
 
I have changed wording in title to 'migration' since the server is having php up now, it isn't 100% good, but it is better than not serving up pages
 
Win7 is hanging pretty badly on two sites PHP again, we may have to disable php just on those sites.
 
It looks like we may have to disable PHP again, this is very oddly starting at almost the same time as yesterday.
 
this almost seems like some sort of DOS attack with the way it is happening, two days in a row and in the same manner, however it is an incredibly stealthy one if that is the case, coming in as legit requests and not in huge manner, just possibly to certain pages that cause issues.

Right now we are trying to simply disable some sites that are suspect, but it is proving to take a very long long time to get that done.

Status of new server: I was working to make it a drop in "perfect" replacement since the had win7 going well, I never expected the same issue to come back at the same time again today. The server is finalizing the asp.net 4.0 install now and will be moving data to its the user content home in the next 30 minutes, and it will be done at the file level. I am going to make a maintenance page to place on the win7 server sites so that there is some reply at least for users pages/sites.

If we can get it managed point where we can bring up again we will gladly do so, but at this point emphasis will be on file migration to new server hardware.
 
We now have all but ASP.NET 1.1 sites on win7 up, even php, as the asp.net 1.1 pools seems to be what was making large process hangs for everything else.
 
And it came back to 100% even with that asp.net 1.1 sites stopped, at this point I am leaving IIS down and focusing on the new server.
 
Started IIS yet again, hoping to get it to a point someone can at least put a customized maintenance message if they desire to do so.
 
content move is going just fine to new server, but it is taking a while being file level. We have re-enabled all services on win7 again, and seems to be holding up, there are a few domains in an app pool that is disabled so service unavailable will be coming on them, we are moving sites out of that in an effort to isolate what may be causing the most issues.
 
We are moving data across while the current win7 remains up, we've got all services still up at this time. If your domains says service unavailable, we will move it to an isolated pool for monitoring.
 
We have all on the new server but haven't switched it over, as we were going to give one last sync to win7 before doing so, but win7 that is currently on has decided it wants to die again, and we are battling that out and then will work on the switchover.
 
Well I believe we have found the culprit but not sure why as code looks unchanged in a long time, but with one site in stopped app pool, everything is running great, start it up within the first hit on the site the server slows to a crawl.
 
With this found, we are going to proceed with a sync of all content, and then we will post a scheduled migration to the new server in the next 48 hours. It is still going to be highly beneficial to move this server to our new cloud based platform instances that new servers are on as well.
 
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