Dreamhost is moving us!

Rico · March 19, 2008, 12:18:21 PM

Ok, gang maybe all my nagging finally paid off. Dreamhost emailed me today and said they will move the site to a new server. For all of you, this shouldn't impact anything. Same URL's, etc - no changes you will see to the site. All you might see is a few weird downtimes (if at all) over the next couple of days. They said this should be minimal - if at all. They keep the old stuff up until it's all migrated over. So, all I can say is keep your fingers crossed. The slowdowns should be much better soon.

billybob476 · March 19, 2008, 12:45:45 PM

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Sounds great. It'll take a day or two for the DNS to roll over to the new IP so some of us might get differing performance for the next little while. I take it both the old an new sites will be connecting to the same database?
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Rico · March 19, 2008, 01:49:38 PM

New server = new database. Or else nothing would improve.

billybob476 · March 19, 2008, 02:15:26 PM

Untrue. Depends on where the bottleneck is, is the problem on the webserver or on the DB?

Rico · March 19, 2008, 04:31:15 PM

Both Joomla (the main web site), the forum, the gallery, all use MySQL databases. When one area is slow, they all are slow. So it's a database issue, which I believe resides on their servers.

I just got an email saying that the move is done but it can take up to a couple of days to have all the DNS issues reworked.

jedijeff · March 19, 2008, 04:44:32 PM

Well hopefully things will improve with the move, though for the most part it was alright when I accessed. At least it is nice that they took your concerns and did something with it.

Dan M · March 19, 2008, 05:06:58 PM

Lots of factors in why a site could be slow.

I hope it all works out, Rico.

billybob476 · March 19, 2008, 06:20:59 PM

Well regardless of what the issue is, hopefully the move will solve it.

Rico · March 20, 2008, 06:27:04 PM

Site seems to be running much more smoothly since the move. Keeping all my fingers crossed. ;)

Ktrek · March 20, 2008, 08:29:31 PM

I think things are running much faster Rico and I was very aware of the problems. I'll let you know if I hit any snags but so far so good!

Kevin

KingIsaacLinksr · March 21, 2008, 11:19:28 AM

I really can't say because this computer (I'm on right now) moves slowly.

Ah well.

King

Ktrek · March 21, 2008, 08:54:27 PM

Well, I thought things were better but actually tonight it's the worst it's been in a while. *sigh*

Kevin

Jen · March 21, 2008, 09:16:47 PM

I experienced a "Server busy" error twice tonight. I hadn't seen that before.

Ktrek · March 21, 2008, 09:43:51 PM

I experienced that once Jen but for me is that it's taking from 30 to 60 seconds for a page to load. It just stalls and you wait and you wait and finally something happens.

Kevin

Rico · March 22, 2008, 04:33:19 AM

Yeah, it's not been a perfect fix but overall I find it much quicker on average than before.