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Server migration completed... Site News
Late Sunday night, we moved the macosxhints site (along with the forum site) to a new server. Hopefully you'll all see an increase in responsiveness (not that the old server was a slouch!), but there might be some broken links and such today as the DNS changes propogate through the system. If you get a failed link when you try one, you can just replace the "www.macosxhints.com" portion of the URL with the server's IP address - 207.44.210.206.

Hopefully the DNS changes will make their way through the system within 24 hours, and we'll be completely back to normal in a day or less...

NOTE: There may be a hardware issue with the new box; it disappeared twice last night ... they are investigating today to try to find the source of the problems.

-rob.
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Authored by: rainer3 on Jan 13, '03 12:13:55AM

Rob. The site's much more responsive now. Good job. Btw, when's the new site coming out? ;-)



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Actually...
Authored by: robg on Jan 13, '03 08:54:43AM

... since the site was down much of the weekend, I had a lot of time to work on the site migration. We're getting very close; I'm now waiting on a minor "service release" for Geeklog that takes care of a couple minor issues (it's due out today or tomorrow), but other than that, it's getting very close to done!

-rob.



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Actually...
Authored by: silicondiode on Jan 13, '03 04:17:15PM

the site now loads too fast! between chimera, safari and whatever server work you did, things are... n i c e.



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Where are your hosting macosxhints ?
Authored by: benoitc on Jan 14, '03 03:54:33AM

Witch company hot your site ?



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A combination...
Authored by: robg on Jan 14, '03 10:11:37AM
I use an independent admin company (as I don't have the time to maintain the server myself), and those services are provided by Out of Control Image; the actual machine is a dual Xeon Linux box hosted at rackshack.net. As much as I'd love to host on OS X, I just haven't found a cost-effective high-bandwidth solution (yet?). -rob.

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