So this past weekend the new database server was installed (physically) at the data center. On Monday JD installed Gentoo, and then I setup mySQL on it (plus some security things). Last night JD transfered over this blog and another over to the new database server for initial performance testing. Later this week and month, additional blogs hosted by Weblogs.us will be transfered over and performance tweaks will be applied. Hopefully, by June everyone will be on the new database server. At that point, signups for more blogs may be possible. It also looks like we may be reintroducing the Weblogs.us front page that I designed a while back.
Right now, the speed increase is apparent on this blog, especially when working in the WordPress dashboard. All those AJAX elements instantaneously load now. Additionally, Spam Karma 2’s administrative section loads much faster than before. There should not be any more of those failed comment submissions due to timeouts now, which is an all around plus.
-John Havlik
[end of transmission, stay tuned]
And if there are any timeouts, it will probably be web server related instead of DB server related ;-) I’m looking forward to Velociraptors for the new web server’s hard drives, timeouts begone!
Yeah, it’s mid May now, they should be hitting the channel soon (maybe Monday?).
-John Havlik