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Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Mar 8 2013 : 9:03PM We've been with the same hosting company for 8 years. It's been a very good service but has become too expensive for our needs. We're downsizing. Over the course of the next two weeks we'll be transitioning to a new server at a new hosting company. I hope to make the transition as smooth and transparent as possible. Edited by - Drew Black on Mar 19 2013 [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Mar 18 2013 : 2:57PM The switch to the new server will happen tonight. Most likely around 1 am EDT. I will have a "down for maintenance" page up during the transition period. There's bound to be a few things I overlook in the process so please feel free to post observations or bug reports here. Thanks. [Link]
LubeNLuv Senior Member 1854 Posts 3/06	Posted - Mar 18 2013 : 9:47PM Good luck with the migration Drew! [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Mar 19 2013 : 12:38AM The image upload feature is turned off now while I move all of the uploaded images to the new server. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Mar 19 2013 : 3:01AM We're on the new server now. [Link]

Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Mar 19 2013 : 4:24AM Testing. [Link]
HeyNow Oblivious Gold Star Hey! 5965 Posts 1/03	Posted - Mar 19 2013 : 7:11AM [Link]
Goldstein All-Star Member "You have sacrificed nothing and no one." 3689 Posts 8/10	Posted - Mar 19 2013 : 12:26PM Glad to say I didn't notice a thing. Didn't even realize it was finished until I read this thread -- and that's a good thing :) [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Mar 19 2013 : 1:19PM There are a couple very minor things I still need to attend to but the process went very smoothly. I had rehearsed the process a couple of times in the past 10 days. Does the site appear to be operating at about the same speed in terms of page load times? We're on a faster server with more processor cores but the hard drives were switched from SAS to SATA. We have increased processor and memory speeds but significantly slowed down the storage system. The new server and host is about a third less expensive annually than our old setup. [Link]
Flash Golden Age Classic 11018 Posts 5/01	Posted - Mar 19 2013 : 2:20PM Load times here are instantaneous. [Link]
Flash Golden Age Classic 11018 Posts 5/01	Posted - Mar 19 2013 : 2:22PM I am sending you an e-mail about some issues I'm having, which I am assuming is all one issue. [Link]
Gentleman Jon All-Star Member 1881 Posts 6/05	Posted - Mar 19 2013 : 3:04PM I'm not sure the search function is firing on all cylinders yet. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Mar 19 2013 : 3:45PM Search is fixed. It wasn't able to persist page results to disk. Edited by - Drew Black on 3/19/2013 3:50:26 PM [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Mar 19 2013 : 3:59PM I think the biggest improvement in performance might be due to the SSD we're using for the database transaction logs and temporary tables. The write bandwidth available over the SATA w/SSD is at least 1 hex higher than what we saw in the old server with a 10kRPM SAS drive. It's a totally nerdy thing but I love watching the performance monitor and seeing 10MB/sec written to the drive. [Link]
Gentleman Jon All-Star Member 1881 Posts 6/05	Posted - Mar 19 2013 : 6:25PM No, I did an experiment. There is a Gauge thread in Star Crossed that was bumped on St. Patrick's Day, and has 9 or 10 new posts made since then that have "Gauge" in the text at least once. But running a search for "Gauge" in Star Crossed, within the last 30 days finds only one of those new posts. [Link]

stinkfist Senior Member Subterfuge...... 7401 Posts 4/07	Posted - Mar 19 2013 : 7:28PM Site is taking forever to load up for me then the same when i click on threads. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Mar 19 2013 : 7:59PM Gentleman Jon wrote: No, I did an experiment. There is a Gauge thread in Star Crossed that was bumped on St. Patrick's Day, and has 9 or 10 new posts made since then that have "Gauge" in the text at least once. But running a search for "Gauge" in Star Crossed, within the last 30 days finds only one of those new posts. Click to expand I'm rebuilding the full-text index right now. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Mar 19 2013 : 8:00PM stinkfist wrote: Site is taking forever to load up for me then the same when i click on threads. Click to expand Which browser are you using? [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Mar 19 2013 : 9:31PM The full-text index has been rebuilt and is back online. Those 'gauge' posts are in the search results now. [Link]
Gentleman Jon All-Star Member 1881 Posts 6/05	Posted - Mar 19 2013 : 10:30PM Danke Schoen. Fixed for Gauge (which I really used for just an example because I knew where there were a bunch of posts about her), and everything else I might want to search for. [Link]
LubeNLuv Senior Member 1854 Posts 3/06	Posted - Mar 19 2013 : 11:01PM Testing to see if I still end up with a blank screen after I post, like with the old site..... Edit: Yup, still happens. Same thing I originally reported in this older thread from two years ago. Which is odd since I now am using A) A new Mac, B) A new ISP and C) A new Router/Gateway. Oh well, no biggie.....site does seem faster now. Edited by - lubenluv on 3/19/2013 11:08:46 PM [Link]
LubeNLuv Senior Member 1854 Posts 3/06	Posted - Mar 19 2013 : 11:38PM And this is a test with Safari....same setup otherwise. EDIT: works just fine. Gotta be a FireFox issue. Edited by - lubenluv on 3/19/2013 11:38:56 PM [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Mar 20 2013 : 9:13AM After you make a post there's a META-REFRESH that tells your browser to wait 2 seconds and then redirect to the topic you just posted in. Some browser security settings will disable meta refresh. So that might be what you're running into. [Link]
RandomPrecision Senior Member Enjoy! 8175 Posts 3/06	Posted - Mar 20 2013 : 10:32AM Just browsing and posting seems to be working fine here with Firefox 19.0.2. [Link]
jayo All-Star Member 2117 Posts 7/04	Posted - Mar 20 2013 : 7:44PM No issues with Opera 12 [Link]

Joey Starr Senior Member Still wanking after all these years. 8082 Posts 10/00	Posted - Mar 21 2013 : 3:43AM Looks OK, for some reason it reverted back to my previous avatar, had to update that again. No biggie. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Mar 21 2013 : 1:21PM If you changed your avatar sometime in the week or so prior to the move it wouldn't have updated. I moved the data and images about 1 week before the actual public switch to the new server. [Link]
stinkfist Senior Member Subterfuge...... 7401 Posts 4/07	Posted - Mar 23 2013 : 8:47PM Drew Black wrote: stinkfist wrote: Site is taking forever to load up for me then the same when i click on threads. Click to expand Which browser are you using? Click to expand Drew it's fine now i think i had some malware issues. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Mar 24 2013 : 1:37PM testing [Link]
pringles All-Star Member 1351 Posts 2/08	Posted - Mar 26 2013 : 2:45PM test 123 [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Mar 26 2013 : 3:32PM message received [Link]
RandomPrecision Senior Member Enjoy! 8175 Posts 3/06	Posted - Mar 27 2013 : 5:45AM I can't say for sure but this forum seems to be running much better than it was on the old server. Used to be that pages would randomly hang for a while when loading. Sometimes if I was downloading a file in the background, ADT pages wouldn't load at all. It seems to work fine now. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Mar 27 2013 : 5:44PM Happy to hear that. The primary reason we switched was economics. The new server is significantly less expensive than the old one. I guess we should have changed years ago. We did upgrade the server from Win Server 2003 to 2008. Maybe that helped? I don't know. [Link]
Joey Starr Senior Member Still wanking after all these years. 8082 Posts 10/00	Posted - Mar 31 2013 : 11:59AM It's been real sloooooooooooooooow this Easter weekend though... [Link]
Joey Starr Senior Member Still wanking after all these years. 8082 Posts 10/00	Posted - Mar 31 2013 : 12:02PM For some reason it's very fast again now.... Backups? Edited by - joey starr on 3/31/2013 12:03:21 PM [Link]

Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Apr 1 2013 : 9:19PM Joey Starr wrote: It's been real sloooooooooooooooow this Easter weekend though... Click to expand Have you read about the massive DDOS attack that's been slowing down the internet links between the USA and Europe? [Link]
Jacco All-Star Member "liable to deprave and corrupt" 2673 Posts 5/04	Posted - Apr 2 2013 : 3:09AM Or the underseas cable hit by an anchor? Jacco [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Apr 2 2013 : 4:49PM I didn't hear about that one. [Link]
Jacco All-Star Member "liable to deprave and corrupt" 2673 Posts 5/04	Posted - Apr 2 2013 : 5:22PM One of the major cables connecting Europe, Asia and Africa near Egypt. http://slashdot.org/topic/datacenter/ships-anchor-suspected-in-mideast-internet-problems/ Jacco [Link]
stinkfist Senior Member Subterfuge...... 7401 Posts 4/07	Posted - Apr 21 2013 : 3:25AM Running really really slow for me it took about 4 min for this page to load up,no problems on other sites. [Link]
Hardware All-Star Member Your other left 14594 Posts 3/02	Posted - Apr 21 2013 : 4:33AM I'm not experiencing any lag. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Apr 21 2013 : 5:36AM stinkfist wrote: Running really really slow for me it took about 4 min for this page to load up,no problems on other sites. Click to expand Nightly backups and maintenenance routines run from 3am to 3:15am Eastern US time. The site will be slow during this time. [Link]

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