Dave Posted July 12, 2008 Posted July 12, 2008 This must be the first time in a while I've posted any kind of announcement, but at least I have good news! Well, there's a bit of bad news as well, but it pales in comparison to the good. The bad news is: SFN will be down anywhere between a couple hours and a day. The good news: we're going to be moving to a much faster dedicated server. Hopefully, this will make browsing the site an order of magnitude faster and will be provide us with a bit more breathing room in terms of resources. Now, we have no certain date that this will happen yet as I'm still to get the server shipped down to the data centre. However, I do anticipate that it will arrive on Thursday. The downtime should probably be either on Sunday or Monday. I will post more details as they come in, so stay tuned!
ecoli Posted July 13, 2008 Posted July 13, 2008 hooray... an order of magnitude faster means an order of magnitude more posting!
Ladeira Posted July 14, 2008 Posted July 14, 2008 good luck for the forum! hope things get faster soon.. i wish the best.
Pangloss Posted July 14, 2008 Posted July 14, 2008 hooray... an order of magnitude faster means an order of magnitude more posting! I accept the challenge!
Dave Posted July 16, 2008 Author Posted July 16, 2008 A little update: server was shipped today, and will arrive tomorrow. Depending on how quickly I can get things moving, we might do the changeover on Saturday.
insane_alien Posted July 16, 2008 Posted July 16, 2008 so expect the servers back up sometime around 2050 then?
Pangloss Posted July 17, 2008 Posted July 17, 2008 We're getting actual hardware? Not a virtual instance or something? That's pretty sweet, what is it?
Dave Posted July 17, 2008 Author Posted July 17, 2008 The server itself is a Dell PowerEdge R200 with dual core xeons and 2gb of RAM. We're colocating it in a data centre in Maidenhead just outside of London. Really that kind of capacity is overkill for SFN but we wanted room for expansion and also the server was on special offer at Dell
YT2095 Posted July 17, 2008 Posted July 17, 2008 Overkill`s good, I like overkill it`s better to have and not need, than to need and not have!
Dave Posted July 17, 2008 Author Posted July 17, 2008 Well the changeover might be quite a bit before I anticipated. The server has been delivered and is now fully up and running. I'm getting initial software installed, and right now I'm planning on taking the forums down at some point tomorrow. I might do it early UK time since that's quite a quiet period.
Royston Posted July 17, 2008 Posted July 17, 2008 I really appreciated the 'status' updates, as I was itching to log on to chat, very quick change, and everything appears to be running smoothly too
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