Website Moving

Manuel the White · Post by **Manuel the White** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 1:59 am

About 3 weeks ago, we hit the wall. Our current host simply can't support our high resource demands any longer. So, avlis.org will be moving to a new host. The website address will not change. We will be residing on dedicated server rather than a shared environment that we currently suffer. In addition, we will have full control over how the web server is configured and what services to provide. For security reasons, that's all the details the Team will provide about the new host and setup.

It was one of our community members who has donated the use of his dormant, dedicated server for Avlis use. I'm not going to embarass him by giving out his name. Perhaps he'll tip his hat to you all if you post enough "Thank you's" below. He surely knows that I appreciate it!

So, how big have we gotten? Here's a general idea..

272 new posts avg a day
230,000 hits avg per day
5.5 million hits avg a month
20+ gigs of data transferred (of web content not haks) avg a month
8 new registerd users avg a day
70+ countries accessing us
600 megs database size
12+ million records

It is the last 2 that are bringing us down. Our database continues to grow exponentially. We are not given enough database connections, CPU cycles or memory by our host to read through such a large data store given the amount of traffic we endure. It is essential that we migrate NOW because historically, this is not our busy season. That time of year comes in Summer.

There will be a period of forum outage while the enormous database is migrated. It may take up to 24 hours to complete. I will post a final warning about when this will happen and try to give as much advance notice as possible. The last migration I did a year ago went quite smoothly. Let's hope that this one follows suit.

- Manuel

Significant Owl · Post by **Significant Owl** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 2:03 am

YES! THANKYOU WHOEVER YOU ARE!

Wyrmwing · Post by **Wyrmwing** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 2:04 am

Wooo hooo!

Can we please ritually burn the old server afterwards and dance around it? Pretty please?

*envisions busy servers on that day and goes planning evil plots*

crestu · Post by **crestu** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 2:07 am

Bravo! Thankyou anonymous nice person.

GreyLynx · Post by **GreyLynx** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 2:13 am

Sweet! Thank you whoever donated!

The boards might become do-able at work again!

Aldinvineda · Post by **Aldinvineda** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 2:19 am

Yarr!
Heartfelt thanks to the member who donated the server.
Makes me proud to be part of such a dedicated community.

Cheers,

Aldi

Snow · Post by **Snow** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 2:30 am

*cheers*

Thank you!

szabot · Post by **szabot** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 2:31 am

Yay! Thanks!

xNormaJeanx · Post by **xNormaJeanx** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 2:33 am

Yay Thank you!!

Post by **Orleron** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 2:50 am

Start making your forum accounts over on copap.org. You can use that forum for however long we are down.

Flash · Post by **Flash** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 4:33 am

*tips hat*

now thats class!

Thank you,

DarknessFallsLight · Post by **DarknessFallsLight** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 4:39 am

Me just illiterate dumb millitary, no understand fancy computer mumbo jumbo but me thanks smart guy who makes Avlis Site go fast.

-DFL

jaythespacehound · Post by **jaythespacehound** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 5:08 am

YARR!!!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU *glances at Al and realises he will post even more a day now*
DAMN YOU DAMN YOU DAMN YOU DMAN YOU

analgesia · Post by **analgesia** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 5:39 am

Wow -- thanks for staying on top of it. Impressive stats!

Arond · Post by **Arond** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 6:06 am

Thank you to everyone on the team that is working on this and everything else that makes Avlis rock. We can handle what ever is necessary to make the website side of things better for the long run. And a big thank you to Manuel for all his behind the scenes work on things.

DanishPastry · Post by **DanishPastry** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 7:05 am

Wow!

*grovels before the anonymous community member*

GHENGIZ.KHAN · Post by **GHENGIZ.KHAN** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 7:15 am

Thankyou

TiVO25 · Post by **TiVO25** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 7:37 am

*was starting to suffer from withdrawl while at work*

Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou

My boss, however, does not thank you.

Naieth · Post by **Naieth** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 8:00 am

THANKS!!! A LOT!!!

frogmella · Post by **frogmella** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 8:55 am

Uplifting news ... what a great community we have here.

I add my greateful thanks to the swelling throng

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Khaelindra · Post by **Khaelindra** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 9:35 am

Manuel the White wrote: 272 new posts avg a day

Half of which are Alphonse's...

But for the effort of both staff and provider to allow us to chatter away even more...

THANK YOU!!

Krator · Post by **Krator** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 9:49 am

Thanks!

Salis · Post by **Salis** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 10:16 am

*nods thanks*

*mutters a blessing*

thank you kind sir

Post by **Nighthawk4** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 10:23 am

A huge thanks to whoever it is.

Can I have my DM Reports thread back please?

Mothandric · Post by **Mothandric** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 10:34 am

Thankyou very much

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