Milsurps Site Changes (November 2016)

[Badger]

Hello everyone ..

First the bad news….

The current computer hardware operating our Milsurps.Com site is 10 years old and with over 28,000 members connecting worldwide, it’s starting to really show its age.

Now, the good news….

With the outstanding financial support in the past few years from so many Contributing Members (click here), we’ve committed your donations to upgrading the system to a computer that’s over three times as powerful and increasing our 2 Gigabyte hard disk storage to 2,000 Gigabytes, which should last us another 10 years, or more.

At the same time, we’ve moved our U.S. hosting site location from Texas to a new data centre in Georgia, which should provide members with higher bandwidth performance, when the hardware is under a lot of load from many users.

The new hardware is already running at the new site and we’re currently testing to ensure that when we cut-over live, that except for members seeing better performance, the change should be transparent.

However, it does mean that when we do the actual software move of our live database, the site may be down for an hour or so, but we’ll try to give our active members sufficient notice of when that’s going to happen. Our current thinking is that it may be sometime in the next few weeks.

Thank you for your ongoing support.

Regards,
Doug

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