1. Feb 23rd, 2006

    New server, maintenance Friday 11pm Pacific

    The co.mments server is maxed out. A lot of users, and I thank you all, but the poor server just can’t take the load. It’s barely managing to pull through.

    So bear with me one more day. Because tomorrow, Friday night at 11pm Pacific co.mments is going down for maintenance for a few hours. And when it comes back, it will be running on a new server. And the new server is FAST.

    Posted by Assaf Filed in announcements

    1. Feb 23rd, 2006

      Chris

      Awesome. Thanks so much for this great service. I’ve wanted to ask about the significantly slowed down performance in the last week but considering it was a free service I felt like that would be too ungratful sounding. Once again thanks for making my web experience so much more engaging and productive.

    2. Feb 24th, 2006

      Assaf

      Here’s the plan for today:
      1. Take the current server offline for maintenance.
      2. Once offline, move all the data over to the new server.
      3. Test that everything works.
      4. Redirect traffic to the new server.

      I’m expecting this will take a few hours, which is why I picked odd hours with not a lot of traffic. And doing it on the weekend makes it easier to fix problems, without interrupting too many people.

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