New Server
Posted by Admin on December 9th, 2012
We have now moved to a new hosting company. If you have any problems with the site please report them to me at fifteensquared{at}btinternet{dot}com or the usual Admin address.
From my experiments to date, you should get a much faster response time. Again, if you don’t, please report as above.
December 9th, 2012 at 11:48 pm
It’s working very well, based on a comparison with some of the things I did on the old server which took a long response time.
With the chance of a breather now for Gaufrid, it’s now our turn to say a BIG THANK YOU to him for a job well-planned, managed and executed.
December 10th, 2012 at 1:19 am
Wow, proper quick. Thanks.
December 10th, 2012 at 3:38 am
Not sure if it’s me but the General Discussion doesn’t seem to have made it here.
December 10th, 2012 at 6:42 am
Wow, maybe early days but this responds much better, thanks Gaufrid.
December 10th, 2012 at 7:33 am
Hi Sidey @3
It’s not just you. The Site Feedback page gives a similar response, displaying the holding message that was put up whilst the transfer took place. I have reported this to the new hosting company but it may just be a case that CloudFlare have yet to update their cached pages.
December 10th, 2012 at 8:24 am
Well done Geoff, super fast now – I just looked at the edit/admin pages, and no more 10 second delay on loading.
One of these things you wish you done ages ago – good stuff.
Nick
December 10th, 2012 at 8:29 am
Hi Nick
Thanks for the feedback. Yes, I’ve said to a couple of people this morning that we should have made the change ages ago, but I suppose that is with the benefit of hindsight.
December 10th, 2012 at 9:53 am
Thanks, Gaufrid – this is definitely worth it.
December 10th, 2012 at 10:12 am
Great stuff – the site came up instantly, no “waiting for…” message. Thanks, Gaufrid.
December 10th, 2012 at 11:51 am
This seems very quick: the last one was slower than a tax rebate. Well done Geoff.
December 10th, 2012 at 12:30 pm
Phenomenal. Thanks Geoff. I’ve just opened a bottle of 12 year old Glenlivet. I’m sure you will understand why.
December 10th, 2012 at 1:19 pm
Thank you so much Geoff, a sterling effort and a great job.
Cheers
Rowly.
December 10th, 2012 at 2:00 pm
I am very impressed with the speed now and also the fact that my update succeeds in reaching the site. On the old one I developed the habit of capturing my update with CTRL+C because I often had to re-submit.
Thanks to Gaufrid for his work in moving the site.
December 10th, 2012 at 4:09 pm
Definitely a big improvement; thanks Gaufrid/Geoff.
December 10th, 2012 at 5:29 pm
I’ve encountered “Website offline” several times in the last half hour
December 10th, 2012 at 6:21 pm
Hi muffin
Yes, so have I. It appears that there was a massive DDoS attack on multiple servers which caused network problems. This started at about 1625 and the disruption continued for around an hour.
I doubt that this is a regular occurence otherwise Big Dave wouldn’t have recommended the new hosting company to me (his Telegraph blogging site is hosted by them).
December 10th, 2012 at 7:07 pm
We had no problems after 7:00 this evening.
Thanks Gaufrid /Geoff for all your hard work in sorting things out! We really do appreciate it.
December 11th, 2012 at 8:33 am
Thanks for the reassurance @16, gaufrid
December 11th, 2012 at 1:06 pm
Superfast for me! (Tho’ I had no access at all yesterday, it definitely seems worth the move.) Thanks.