Hi there,

There will be some downtime to allow us to migrate to a new server. This server has hosted us well for the last three years, but it's time for an upgrade to a more modern OS.

In other news, the new forum software that I bought a few months ago has made 1.0 status. I need to write a convertor for it and make sure everything converts across, but once that happens, the forum software will also change. This will most likely happen in the April / May timeframe. If you want to see that software in action, it's here:

http://xenforo.com/community/ 

If you come across themes, smileys or modules you like for XenForo, please PM me and I'll try to get it included in our initial install.

thanks,
Andrew

Our new server has been provisioned.

The specs are as follows:

• Same hoster, but now located in LA rather than Dallas, so latency reduced from 330 ms to 180 ms)
  
• Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (was CentOS 5.0 with customized LAMP packages as CentOS 5.0 is prehistoric)
  
• 16 x Intel Xeon E5620 processors running @ 2.4 GHz, 12 MB L3 cache (up from 16 x E5520 @ 2.27GHz, 8 MB L3 cache)
  
• 1.5 GB of RAM (up from 768 MB)
  
• 60 GB of disk (same)
  
• 3 TB of bandwidth per month (up from 2 TB/mth. We use like 50 GB/mth)
  

thanks Andrew thats awesome

p.s. I need to mention that without the help of our sponsors, none of this would be possible, like helping subsidize the purchase price difference between my old dying Mac and my new MacBook Air 11.6, to provisioning the new server and buying the new forum software.

A Big THANKYOU! to all our sponsors!

thanks,
Andrew

keep up the good work andrew. also a big thank you to the sponsors.

I thought we'd see about a 15-30% difference in performance. It's actually a bit more than that:

Old:

Just in case folks remembered our first shared hosting environment, that box maxed out at 20 requests/second. And we thought that was pretty good.

thanks,
Andrew

Thank you for your work!

Andrew, I'm looking for a new VPS for dsk. Can you tell me who you use at Colo4

Thanks

Steve

Hi Steve,

We use Future Hosting. They've been decent. Can't say too much about their support as I've not needed it all that often (usually for once off things like the last server move), but the price is right.

thanks,
Andrew

Our new server is up and running.

DNS changes will take a little while to propagate - up to 24 hours in some cases. My own ISP is still telling me that I should be using the old IP address.

I'll check again in the morning, but hopefully things will be sorted out very soon.

thanks,
Andrew

Steve,

Actually, I'm using their support right now to resolve the DNS issue. Very fast response - only six minutes to say "hi I'm looking at your ticket."

thanks,
Andrew

Hi all,

Sorry for the delay in getting this fixed, but I have had to re-delegate the DNS servers to our hoster's new DNS servers so you could see our new server. This has been done.

Unfortunately, of all the changes to DNS, re-delegation is the slowest to propagate. Some of you will be here now. Some of you will not be able to see the forum for days. My apologies for this. Re-delegation is rare and was not in my mind of migration steps at all.

Anyway, the changes have been done, and there's nothing for it, but to wait.

thanks,
Andrew

thanks for all the work i know how much time it takes, yes unable to access through the dns i just type in the ip address and here i am

Andrew,
Things seem to be working great here in Indiana , USA.
Thanks for all your efforts.
Kudos!
Regards,
Steve

Andrew,

might be worth telling everyone just to type in the IP into there web browser

Paul - I've done that in the instructions on the old server.

Using the IP stops "remember me" logins from working, so I'd prefer the hosts entry approach.

thanks,
Andrew

Everything seems a little "snappier" now.
Thanks for all the time and effort involved.
Cheers

all is good over here in West Oz, cheers guys and thanks for your time and effort.

Working great! thankyou

I can get in by typing in the IP address

I have saved this

I can get in the "normal" way on my work puta - http://www.aussieveedubbers.com 

How do I fix this on my home puter
Not sure about the DNS stuff

I appreciate all the work, but it took me 10 hours on and off trying to find the fricken site. I only found it by doing a google search (aussieveedubbers) and narrowed it to the last 24 hours.

There must still be a lot of pissed off people out there.

Sorry, but we do not have good (not great) computer skills.

Thanks again, Kevin

it will come good in the next 24 hours once all the servers around the world refresh

Great new speed Andrew , but i'mm having trouble with the fact that if i close the site for more than a few minutes that it logs me off which on the old server it never did except for the breif period that it was doing it to a few of us 18 months ago

Awesome. I don't feel like making a cuppa between page loads now. it's really snappy! I look forward to seeing the future changes too.

Matt,

I am with bigpond and it updated overnight I am now using my old bookmark

I couldn't log on at all last night, then my home computer logged on OK this morning when I was in Port Macquarie, but my laptop wouldn't. I have now just fired up my laptop in Orange, and it logged straight on.

It won't happen overnight, but it will happen. :-)

Great job Andrew. Keep up the good work.

Just started working from my old favorites this evening.

Well done Andrew

It is fast.. well done!

oh, Bizarre... if you only knew Spanish you would realise what you just said "
on your post on 19-3-2011 at 13:06 above... just translate that one word and you'll be LOL.