Saxperience Essential Maintenance - Mon 21/May/2007 1am
 

Saxperience is growing faster than ever, and even though we only moved to a new dedicated server on 12/Sep/2006 (see Saxperience Essential Maintenance - Downtime!) and it has been doing a valiant job keeping up with the increasing demand, the server has been showing signs of strain at peak times.

We always strive to ensure that your enjoyment of Saxperience is as trouble free as possible, and like most people we don't want to be caught without enough power to get us out of trouble... so we're going to upgrade to a significantly more powerful server!

A couple of specs for the techies out there (you know who you are):
- 2 x AMD Opteron Dual-Core Processors
- 4GB RAM
- 2 x 250GB HDD

Inevitably, this means that there will be some downtime while the migration takes place.

The Saxperience Web site will be offline after 1am on Monday 21st May 2007.

Any downtime will be kept to a minimum and should hopefully be no more than a couple of hours (and you'll all be in bed probably anyway) ;)

Any questions or concerns please locate your friendly local moderator.


Edit: I forgot to add that this migration will also affect the Premium member email services. Undelivered messages will be held in a queue until service is restored.

what speed are the processors running at?

I'm sure the majority of us won't even be up at that time, big thumbs up as i'm sure you meant to arrange that kind of time with you being in the US.

Keep up the good work Mark!

bloody hell sax-p gets better all the time :)

nice, dont think i can cope without my late night sax-p addiction, gonna take up smoking instead!

hope it goes well, hows v4 coming along?

Tonight's the night! :A:

Long live the continual development of Saxperience ;)

i'll be in bed then anyways! lol but its great to see sax-p growing and developing!

I don't think this....

is in response to this....

Or though, you never know.

:A:

Only a few hours until switch off time now peeps... :P

We are going to come back to same looking forum etc aren't we?

I'm not in a learning mood :P

YEs, all will appear the same...

everyone can get early nites now :P

Except for the hardcore, who will wait around for the switch on :P

ooo what!? ima be bored tonight! maybe time for a early night for a change lol

so the new v4 tonight then ;)

Doubt we will be seeing the V4 implemented during the night, I reckon that is a few months away.

Least there is nothing new to learn, think I'll hang around to 12am and then bugger off to bed.

^^ man with the plan

Tonight we're "simply" (lol) replacing the server with one significantly more powerful (more than 10 times more in fact). During this move all data will be transferred - no posts, pms, email messages or anything else will be lost.

Much of the core server software is also being upgraded in preparation for v4 (although as you guessed, v4 isn't happening just yet).

god damn it im going to have nothing to do later on now =[ lol
ahh well ill just drink :y:

Five minutes until life isn't worth living..... :p

Simo... i can't see any of the updates you mentioned to me yet either :(

Alex
:)

Its gonna be a little after 1am now :P

Alex... no, Ive been a little busy with something else... but it will appear ;)

Don't do it simooooooooo :(

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

lol my clock is an hour slow, thought I had an hour left. Will have to watch TV in bed :n:

Thanks for continuing to develop the website guys :y:


scott

how much after?

are you just waiting for mark?

what time Simo? :)

I don't mind about the guide... i want my green blobs :p lol! infact i think you should introduce other colours....

Wooot you can't tell me it's going to be a little later.. now i have no excuse to have an early night :(

Alex
:)

EDIT: also.. if your upgrading the server will you take the liberty of updating the forum clock :p

Mark is lurking ;)

will this be the much awaited v4 or v3.7 time will tell i guess.

wont be around for the switch on though, have to get up in 6 hours time :(

simo with the site expanding will you be appointing more mods *cough me, furioal, predator_vtr cough* lol

Byeeeeeeeeeeee..... :detective:

See yall on the other side

Im on the other side and its sexy

The new server is now in place and buzzing along happily. All the new software seems to be getting on well too, which makes things much easier for the future growth and development of Saxperience.

If anyone does discover any problems then please be sure to let us know either by email or posting in the Bug Reports forum.

Thank you everyone for your patience.