InsaneJournal Announcements

Great News

squeaky

11/11/13 04:41 pm

If you haven't heard the news, InsaneJournal is getting a new home. Now this doens't mean anything is going to change, other than the reliablity of the site.

We have made the decision to bring the hosting of the site back in house. For the past 7 years we've been relying on other companys to maintain our servers while we maintian the software. We have gotten to the point where we have outgrown this model. We have raised the funding to purchase servers to run the site on and are going to be moving in sometime next week.

This will mean that the site is going to be down while we get moved in. We do understand what a hassle this is and hope to make it as painless as possible. We are anticipating that the site could be down for as much as 24 hours.

Please subscribe to our feed on twitter (@insanejournal) or facebook (http://www.facebook.com/insanejournal) and we will keep everyone updated on the status of the move while we are down. I will post a notice at least 24 hours before we bring the site down when we know the exact time that we will be moving.

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• quillismightier

  11/11/13 05:04 pm (UTC)

  

  This is such great news, Squeaky! Having done my share of in house server hosting, it can be a hassle sometimes. I hope the transfer is nice and smooth. Thank you for everything you do!

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• yuna_moon

  11/11/13 06:28 pm (UTC)

  

  Yes! Thank you very much Squeaky. :)

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• wordsnotspoken

  11/12/13 11:11 am (UTC)

  

  Thanks for all you do! I'm sure it will be great!

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• keleos

  11/13/13 12:11 pm (UTC)

  

  Thank you so much for the hard work and effort. It is VERY appreciated.

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• mrlnpndrgn

  11/13/13 08:51 pm (UTC)

  

  That is very good news.
  
  However, may I point out that not everybody is on Facebook?
  
  What's the point of having a blog here, if all the news that concerns it are put on Facebook, instead of here...
  
  Please at least consider using your own blogging system to keep your users informed.
  Thank you.

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  • squeaky

    11/13/13 09:25 pm (UTC)

    

    We do use it to keep users informed. However, the site will be offline during the move so we need somewhere offsite with a large reach and these two outlets are the most obvious

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    • mrlnpndrgn

      11/13/13 09:32 pm (UTC)

      

      the site will be offline during the move so we need somewhere offsite with a large reach and these two outlets are the most obvious
      
      
      Except that I just went there, and there were at least 3-4 posts about the servers change that were never put here.
      
      As I said, I don't "do" Facebook, and I have no interest in twitter.
      
      Just my 2 cents (Canadian).

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    • mrlnpndrgn

      11/14/13 07:55 am (UTC)

      

      Thank you so very much to the person who told me to "stay uninformed".
      
      I feel so valuable!

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• deathofaloner

  11/14/13 12:16 am (UTC)

  

  Thanks for the heads-up, Squeaky! This sounds like great news!

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