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
:)