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Okay, just so everyone knows what happened and what is going to happen. Yesterday I tried to bring the old IJ server up as a second webserver to help the load. There were some problems with libraries causing a lot of things to break. So I rolled the change back, unfortunately I had to clear out some S1 style customizations so some of your journals may look funny. If you go back to the customize page you should be able to reset all of your style options.
Today I just ordered a new server to move IJ to. This one has about 4x the horsepower are the current one, so it will help alleviate the load. We are going to be moving the site to the newer bigger server asap. We don't forsee any issues, but we do recommend that you backup any icons and keep note of any S1 customizations.
I want to thank EVERYONE for coming over here and having patience with our growing pains. If you talk to anyone who came over in the June/July migration, they will tell you that we had the same growing pains, but we were able to move to a bigger server and weather the storm.
Today I just ordered a new server to move IJ to. This one has about 4x the horsepower are the current one, so it will help alleviate the load. We are going to be moving the site to the newer bigger server asap. We don't forsee any issues, but we do recommend that you backup any icons and keep note of any S1 customizations.
I want to thank EVERYONE for coming over here and having patience with our growing pains. If you talk to anyone who came over in the June/July migration, they will tell you that we had the same growing pains, but we were able to move to a bigger server and weather the storm.
My icons are backed up on my extrenal drive, along with most everything else I don't want to lose (3 harddrive crashes in 8 months on a brandnew Dell makes one paranoid), and I use S2, so no worries here}:)
Thanks for the updates
I'm going to upgrade to a permanently insane account as soon as I can speak to my brother and get him to use his Paypal for me. (I'm a paypal-phobe amongst many other-phobes I have on the internet :P)
Keep up the FANTASTIC work!
But thanks a ton for doing such an awesome job. ^^
Said not entirely facetiously. Seriously, thanks for letting us know what went on and what kind of things we should do on our end just in case.
(Now I have to wonder if website owners get giddy over new geek toys the way artists do over new art toys :)
Thank you, Squeaky ♥
I *heart* Insane Journal.
You'll probably be relieved to have the new server installed and running after these latest influxes. Here's hoping the installation goes smoothly, for your nerves and ours! ;)
It'd be really interesting to see the account creation figures and I can't remember where they are to be found, so maybe someone can let me know. The spike size must be massive.
Squeaky, I imagine that this may push back the next code upgrade here, do you think? I know that we have the ongoing issues with tracking and occasional comment loss (that's happened to me a few times as well) and I think they were errors that'd be corrected in the next upgrade? With the influx strain, I don't know whether we'll see a higher error rate, but it could be worthwhile posting a rough estimate (or guesstimate: yep, if the server install goes well, a couple of weeks after that. If not, who knows? ;) ) in announcements that us old codgers (hey, does this make us those of us who came at the end of May First Fleeters?) can point folks too. What do you reckon?
One of the things I love most about IJ is that we can actually talk about this stuff with you. I don't think I'm ever going to stop being impressed by that! ♥