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Offline Henrik Soderberg

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Finished - Site upgrades [modified topic name]
« on: January 13, 2013, 04:46:44 PM »
Hi all,

We will soon replace the main photo database server. We have been working hard with optimizing it for high performance and stability, and it's now ready to go online.

It seems we will be able to switch over in a few hours. It would be the evening in CET - Central European Time.

During this time, the site will appear offline. Also, after it's taken online, we might hold uploading of new photos until everything is fully tested and verified to work out as planned.

Should you find any strange errors, or a specific feature not working as expected the coming day or two, please report immediately by sending a bug-report thrrough the contact page.

The new main server should be a lot faster, and we should have far less "Too many connections" problems. It might not disappear completely since we mage huge standardizations of ship data at times, that can lock everything up for a few seconds, but solutions for that is coming later on with even more servers to share the load further.

Thanks everyone for your patience, and thanks to everyone contributing in making the site grow! =)

Regards,
Henrik
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Re: Heads up - site down for upgrades
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2013, 06:32:48 PM »
Hi,

We're looking at a 15-100 times faster in various aspects, and 4-5 times more redundant main server here. Real performance is still to be measured with real server load once it's online. It's very difficult to get precise results with benchmark software. Also I can't compare them side-by-side as the old one is live doing a hectic job, and we avoid having the site offline as far as we can...

Ok, site going away in a minute. See you once we're up again!

Regards,
Henrik

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Re: Heads up - site down for upgrades
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2013, 07:25:27 PM »
Hi all,

The move and upgrade is now finished. Please report possible errors.

Regards,
Henrik

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Re: Finished - Site upgrades [modified topic name]
« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2013, 09:55:25 PM »
Well done Henrik. Thanks for all your hard work 'behind the scenes'.
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Re: Finished - Site upgrades [modified topic name]
« Reply #4 on: January 13, 2013, 10:00:08 PM »
Thanks for all your hard work Henrik

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Re: Finished - Site upgrades [modified topic name]
« Reply #5 on: January 13, 2013, 10:25:28 PM »
Thank you very much Henrik, the website runs noticeably faster for me now!

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Re: Finished - Site upgrades [modified topic name]
« Reply #6 on: January 13, 2013, 10:44:46 PM »
Just tried the upgraded site - I'm impressed Henrik !

Brgds,
Rob.

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Re: Finished - Site upgrades [modified topic name]
« Reply #7 on: January 13, 2013, 11:29:53 PM »
The site is indeed faster now! Thanks for all the work you and the staff put in.

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Re: Finished - Site upgrades [modified topic name]
« Reply #8 on: January 14, 2013, 12:01:03 AM »
Henrik,your time and effort is much appreciated.
Regards,Doug.

 

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