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Hi Folks,
Thanks for taking some time out to read this important note. With DailyStrength quickly approaching 400,000 members, we have outgrown our current server setup and will be taking some time on the weekend of April 4th to upgrade the hardware that DailyStrength runs on. Not only will the site double its hardware, we are also moving the site to a top tier, fully redundant hosting facility with lots more bandwidth.
The upgrading and moving of the site is scheduled to start on April 4th. During this time DailyStrength will be down and unavailable for about 12 to 18 hours. We will use this time to transfer all the data from the old servers to the new servers and then test the new system. As we get closer to April 4th, we will update everyone on the timing.
Sorry in advance for any inconvenience this may cause you - we purposely chose a day and time that would impact the least amount of members. Rest assured that when DailyStrength returns on Sunday, April 5th the site will be in a better position to grow as our membership grows. And with this large migration project behind us, look for DailyStrength to get better and better with new features you've been asking for and fixes and improvements to the features you already know and love.
Thanks for using DailyStrength and have a great day!
- Doug
P.S.
For those of you who are really technical and would like to know some of the hardware improvements, here you go. There are lots of other equipment changes involved, but these are the changes to the main servers.
Current Server Setup:
1 Web Server (2x Quad Core Processor, 8G Memory)
1 Search Server (1x Quad Core, 4G Memory)
2 Database Servers (2x Quad Core Processor, 8G Memory)
1 10Mbps Internet Circuit - Single ISP
Server Setup after Migration:
4 Web Servers (2x Quad Core, 8G Memory)
2 Search Servers (2x Quad Core, 8G Memory)
2 Database Servers (2x Quad Core, 32G Memory)
2 x 100Mbps Internet Circuit - 7, Tier 1 ISP Providers
Thanks for taking some time out to read this important note. With DailyStrength quickly approaching 400,000 members, we have outgrown our current server setup and will be taking some time on the weekend of April 4th to upgrade the hardware that DailyStrength runs on. Not only will the site double its hardware, we are also moving the site to a top tier, fully redundant hosting facility with lots more bandwidth.
The upgrading and moving of the site is scheduled to start on April 4th. During this time DailyStrength will be down and unavailable for about 12 to 18 hours. We will use this time to transfer all the data from the old servers to the new servers and then test the new system. As we get closer to April 4th, we will update everyone on the timing.
Sorry in advance for any inconvenience this may cause you - we purposely chose a day and time that would impact the least amount of members. Rest assured that when DailyStrength returns on Sunday, April 5th the site will be in a better position to grow as our membership grows. And with this large migration project behind us, look for DailyStrength to get better and better with new features you've been asking for and fixes and improvements to the features you already know and love.
Thanks for using DailyStrength and have a great day!
- Doug
P.S.
For those of you who are really technical and would like to know some of the hardware improvements, here you go. There are lots of other equipment changes involved, but these are the changes to the main servers.
Current Server Setup:
1 Web Server (2x Quad Core Processor, 8G Memory)
1 Search Server (1x Quad Core, 4G Memory)
2 Database Servers (2x Quad Core Processor, 8G Memory)
1 10Mbps Internet Circuit - Single ISP
Server Setup after Migration:
4 Web Servers (2x Quad Core, 8G Memory)
2 Search Servers (2x Quad Core, 8G Memory)
2 Database Servers (2x Quad Core, 32G Memory)
2 x 100Mbps Internet Circuit - 7, Tier 1 ISP Providers
12 to 18 hours without DS?!? Yikes! How are we going to make it thru? LOL
It will be great I am sure! Usually any time they shut down for work on thesite it works so much better. With upgrading to this extent should make things super fast!
Thanks KrisKat for posting this info.
I am looking to see if they came up with anything on my suggestion a combined hug.
Like peace, love and hang in there all rolled into one. LOL!
Just a crazy idea but one I would like to see what they come up with.
Love yopu all!
Soon we will be navigating like "The Navigator"! Whoosh! LOL!
Love Rhea