New server, moar speedz! - August 23, 2017 01:37 PM
Been a long while since we upgraded our server hardware. Finally found some time to make the transition off aging hardware and find a few more RPMs along the way, I'm sure you can tell the difference in performance. Much snappier now.
Thanks to Sean (and Kuah) from SPLparts.com, who helped fund the updated hardware.
If you find something that's broken after the transition, please email me what the issue is so I can look into it.
Written by Dallas DamonZ
Downtime and recovery - April 14, 2012 04:40 PM
So, we managed to spin the bearings on this thing pretty good about a month ago. We put it up on jackstands and try to figure out what to do next with it. The result is positive but time consuming. Many of you know exactly what I'm talking about when it comes to failure and recovery in relation to our cars... and my metaphor.
Sorry for the downtime, but wrangling time out of a handful of very busy people and then coordinating that time to get this sort of work done takes time to complete. It's the nature of the beast.
We're back now and there have been some modifications made in the meantime. The negative beside the downtime is we've lost a lot of data from the last 5 months of TECH postings. We're working to restore this now, but we decided it's important to just be live again so people can access the information we're preserving instead of worrying about 5 months out of 14 years of data being 100%.
Part of the struggle was trying to recover on what we thought was solid hardware. After mucking about a bit we decided to back up a click and just replace the entire database side of the architecture. The web side will soon benefit too... we just ended up rushing the next hardware migration in the end. IT folks know this sort of thing doesn't happen over night, particularly when you start relatively flat footed. The big positive is the new hardware is significantly faster and once we get things stabilized, we'll look at getting the web server piece sped up as well.
Anyway, I want to thank Greg, genic and awesom-o for their assistance in recovery and we want to thank you and our sponsors for your patience. Welcome home!!
