Temporary Performance Issues and Downtimes

by Eric March on November 22, 2008 at 3:15 pm

Our host is currently in the process of upgrading their servers and applying a huge bandwidth increase, moving everyone over from servers running regular platter hard drives to ones running server-capable SSDs. This will result in massive performance increases and far fewer CPU bandwidth errors when things start getting really busy across the Podium Network.  Unfortunately this is going to result in temporary bouts of slow periods or outright downtime while the migration takes place.  I apologize for the inconvenience, but rest assured this will probably only occur over the next few days, and when it’s all over we should have far less downtime (not that we had much in the first place) and much better performance, particularly where the SQL database is concerned.  (That’s the bit that holds all of the articles, and which WordPress traditionally throttles when accessed by a lot of people at once.)

This also means I may have trouble posting new reviews and articles; if the server is unavailable I won’t be able to post until it comes back up.  I’ll still be able to queue up new articles to post when it does return though (have I mentioned that I love ScribeFire?) so I’ll still be able to write them, even if I’m not able to post them right away.

So if you are having trouble accessing the blog or notice that things are bit slow, this is why.  (Well, things being slow can also be a function of me working on our next project, which is still very much on the go and is still demanding on my time.)  Please be patient and try again in a little bit.  It’ll all be over soon enough, and then things will be far more stable.

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