moho_00 Curator Backer Posts: 6846 Registered: 6/10/2011
moho_00
# 1 - Posted on 10/24/2014 21:35:31

If you use the site regularly, you may have noticed it's been down a few times over the past couple of months. This is because the server it's hosted on constantly has issues. To combat this, we're going to be moving to a new hosting provider in the next 1-2 weeks, so the site might be down for a brief period of time.

Also, to prepare for this transition, I moved all of the box art images to an external hosting provider. This is something that I had been planning on doing for quite some time for various reasons, but the server transition sort of made it priority #1. I mention this for two reasons:

1) Aside from a few style changes / fixes, there isn't much that you'll notice in this week's release

2) You might run across some missing box art images. I think I got 'em all, but if you happen to see a missing image, please let me know!

Post Edited on 10/24/2014 21:35:56
moho_00 Curator Backer Posts: 6846 Registered: 6/10/2011
moho_00
# 2 - Posted on 11/22/2014 1:31:52

Sorry for the outages this evening, I still haven't migrated servers yet and the current host was having some issues...again. I'm hoping to get everything switched over very soon though.

moho_00 Curator Backer Posts: 6846 Registered: 6/10/2011
moho_00
# 3 - Posted on 11/27/2014 2:48:47

Hey everyone, I just switched over to the new servers, so if you notice anything weird, let me know!

jwcooley Curator Posts: 983 Registered: 2/28/2014
jwcooley
# 4 - Posted on 11/28/2014 4:16:35

Things look good from my end.

Marcelloz Curator Backer Posts: 277 Registered: 9/14/2014
Marcelloz071
# 5 - Posted on 11/28/2014 11:03:31

Nope, it is that you mentioned it but otherwise I wouldn't have noticed.

moho_00 Curator Backer Posts: 6846 Registered: 6/10/2011
moho_00
# 6 - Posted on 12/6/2014 2:03:23

One thing I've noticed is that some searches have been getting slower. This was especially noticeable on the Activity Feed on the Overview page. What I've determined is that certain SQL keywords perform differently with SQL Server Azure, which is what I've migrated to. I fixed the Activity Feed so it's back to where it used to be, but I wanted to give everyone a heads-up that you might see some slowness. I'll gradually optimize everything, so if you find a really slow one, just post in here and I'll put a priority on it.