Several of you had brought to my attention the speed of the website. As such we've started the process of migrating to a new host. For the next few days we'll be staying where we are, but I've just started the process of moving our email over to the new servers and will be migrating the website next week (Family in town this weekend, sorry!).
So for the time being, email responses will not be working, you'll have to sign in. Those will come back up next week. Thanks!
Fri, Oct 12, 2012 - 10:10am
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Website Speed
I've been working the last couple nights to improve the speed of the new website. Tonight, sometime between 1 and 3 AM I'm going to migrate to a new host. We'll be moving from a shared server to a virtual server dedicated to us. This migration will be a bit more than just simply migrating systems but also includes several backed improvements on the server itself. As this is a dedicated virtual system, we're able to run additional helper programs to speed things up (for those that want technical details, feel free to ask, I'd be happy to discuss!).
You should soon see a drastic improvement in site performance. For example, right now we're averaging 3-5 seconds (with a range of .5 to 40 seconds) of response time. On the new site, under a simulated load we're averaging .5 seconds (with a .3 to 1 second range) of response. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to let me know, this change should be transparent, but as always clear your cache or go to start->run and enter "ipconfig /flushdns". Thanks!
Oh... my... god. Why haven't we done this? http://thechive.com/2013/09/17/guys-rig-up-buddies-plumbing-with-beer-wh...
Wonderful news!
Thanks for all your work on the site, Lucas!