We aren't at the point where it is necessary to do that.

 

you should consider linking your db server with your application server via phiber and having your homepage on a totally different server along with maybe another part ....to get the load equal. This site always had high latency nomatter what darren threw at it (but he would never let me help so I dont know all the specifics).

 

The load we incur from the home page (scionlife.com) is not significant compared to the forums themselves. The site will be load balanced across multiple servers, and the database will be on a separate machine from those that serve the pages.

 

^ sounds great - the site surely needs it. Im glad you are putting the work into the site to make it run better ... I just hope it doesnt get full with popups because it will kill your loyal members.

 

^ by the looks of things at 1:32pm on a work day ..... things haven't started changing over yet

 

oh pls say you have updates!!!

 

Not yet. We're still sorting out some details. Sorry it's taking this long... we just want to make sure we're doing everything possible to ensure a smooth transition. We host a number of other forums as well and are doing some work to bring in more bandwidth to handle everything.

 

^ good idea - at least your planning it out

 

OK... we're looking good for migrating the forums to new hardware on Tuesday, October 8. We'll take the forums offline at 11AM PDT. They will probably come back online around 4-5PM PDT, maybe a bit sooner.

This downtime was originally going to happen a couple weeks ago, but we decided to delay so that we could get set up with a new upstream network provider & therefore have more available bandwidth. (LOTS more.)

 

i'll keep it simple "YAY!!!!"

 

oct 8th or 9th?

 

Well, it didn't go down today so I'd assume tomorrow, the 9th.

 

You're right, I got the date wrong. Tuesday, Oct. 9.

In about ten minutes, I will begin.

 

It's done.

It will take some time for everyone to be able to get back in, as the new server IP propagates through various DNS servers.

 

Its working. Cant wait to see how the speed is!!

 

Definitely quicker!

 

LexusLife and ToyotaLife didn't get their DNS switched yet, but they will follow soon.

 

That was darn quick!

 

Quite honestly, that was an amazingly quick move.

Looks like most everything made it over to the new hardware, and it is definitely quicker.

Be interesting to see how it stands up to a really busy day.


Thanks, guys!!!

Tom

 

LexusLife and ToyotaLife have been switched & look good.