Hi,
Just want to give you a bit of prior notice that there will be a planned site outage early next week. We are moving hosting company from the US to the UK. This is a big project for us (and makes me really scared!) but in the long term will help site stability and performance.
At the moment the plan is for the final cut over to take place Monday morning but before that date we have to copy over all the site code, databases, images etc from the US to the UK. Check everything is configured correctly between all the different servers and then just before the final cut over we copy over anything that has changed in the last few days to make sure we dont lose anything.
We have already started copying over the files and you might notice pages taking longer to load over the next few days as the process chunters (is that a real word?) away in the background.
We should start testing everything on the new servers tomorrow and over the weekend I'll update this post to confirm the actually outage time.
While we are doing the upgrade I'll keep our facebook page updated on progress and post on there if we are having any problems. So a little plug, if you haven't liked us on FB do so now and then you'll know exactly how stressed I am on Monday.
Dean
Sunday Update:
Things haven't quite gone to plan so we wont be ready for Monday morning. I've rescheduled the cut over to Wednesday morning now.
Wednesday Update:
Unfortunately copying across all the images in site has taken longer than we planned. We did have process running in the background but as some of you noticed it was slowing the site down too much and so we've be running it out of hours. I need to check how we got on last night and then I'll give a new cut over date.
