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This weekend I will transfer modetwo.net (including these forums) from the shared hosting account I'm using now to a fresh VPS (virtual private server). This means I'll have more bandwidth, space and access (e.g. root) than I have now - it's like having a dedicated server, except I'm sharing the hardware resources with other VPS accounts on the same server.

 

This also means that loads should drop quite a bit as I'll have more memory and CPU avalible, so everything should speed up. I'm getting dedicated 256 MB Ram, but with the possibility to boost up to 2 GB when avalible. The server's got Dual 2.8Ghz Xeon processors.

 

Please don't use the upload feature on these forums now as I've started transferring the files. Domain and database will be moved when I'm ready, and you might experience that you can't access the forums for a few hours.

~m2

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Sorry about the delay, but the DNS changes should kick in ASAP.

 

I haven't moved the database yet, as I had some troubles importing it, so it is still hosted on the old server. I'll have to update mysql to version 4.1 before I import the database again.

~m2

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I've just discovered that the server seems to not send outgoing emails for whatever reason. This is obviosly bad because people signing up to the forums can't activate their accounts etc.

 

I'm looking into it. If you are having problems (re-)activating your account, please email me: modetwo [at] night-blade [dot] com

~m2

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I've just installed eAccelerator which increases performance of PHP scripts by caching them in compiled state, and recompiled Apache with mod gzip.

 

Both of these should help speed up things on the server, I can already see a huge difference on this forum.

 

Btw, moving this thread out of the Announcement forum.

~m2

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