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I've managed to get a really good deal on a dedicated server, so I'm going to be moving the site over (probably tonight or tomorrow morning). I've finished configuring it today, and I'm doing the initial mirror of the site now. DNS should switch pretty much instantly, so most people won't...

All, I've been doing some maintenance this evening, which included moving to a new server (wasn't happy with the performance of the previous one). The index page was taking 1 second plus to load, and wasn't able to run the Unread Post Count add-on. On the new server, the page is being...

I've migrated the server to a different company. We now have a separate DB and Web server running the site (simply because I can and know how to set them up :whistle:) DNS has been moved over, and we are now on the new site. I've also removed www from the URL, as the new SSL certificate I've...

I've moved the site onto a new server this morning. The new server has SSD drives, and twice the RAM. We are now on there, so if you have any problems with anything, please let me know.

I've just had the server moved to a new node, due to us suffering from high disk I/O on the old node. While this was being done, I've had an extra 1GB of RAM added.

Our server provider is going to be moving the node we sit on into a new datacentre on the evening of 01/02/2013. Work will start at 22:30, and should have finished by 00:45 on the 2nd. During this time, the site will be offline (not worth failing over to the second server for 2 hours down time).

I'm currently trying out a new SMTP delivery server for the site. It's powered by Mandrill, and provides better delivery and bounce handling. It's all set up to work with our domain name, so the sender looks no different. Links inside e-mails have google tracking enabled, so we can see clicks...

Maintenance notification from our SMTP host: