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Another Server Move

Our hosting company is moving us to a "beefier" server in a few hours because because Movable Type is moving extremely slow. If this doesn't fix the problem, we'll have to find an MT professional to take a look and try to fix it. We tried to change from static to dynamic publishing once before, and it didn't work. We may try that again if we can get MT to do it for us.

The only thing the server moves means for readers is that comments made about the time of transfer may get lost. Also, if you can't access TalkLeft right after the move, hit your refresh button or clear your cache and you will go to the new IP address.

Update: Move is complete.

Update: The new server is very fast. A big thanks to Hosting Matters. I was offline all Sunday due to network problems that had nothing to do with the site. A big thanks to TChris who posted great stuff all day.

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  • Re: Another Server Move (none / 0) (#1)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sun Mar 06, 2005 at 01:01:52 AM EST
    I said so.

    Re: Another Server Move (none / 0) (#2)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sun Mar 06, 2005 at 07:18:41 AM EST
    Seems faster and better. The Cisco Server was a very good friend of mine... Sorry. Couldn't resist.

    Re: Another Server Move (none / 0) (#3)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sun Mar 06, 2005 at 11:57:56 AM EST
    Uh... sometimes things work counter-intuitively, but I'd imagine that static pages would serve a lot faster than dynamic, PHP pages. It would save rebuilding time, but MT can do that in the background and with a fair amount of work that could even be farmed out to a second machine.