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September 12, 2014 08:03 AM UTC

We're On A Bigger Badder Server Now, Really

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  • by: Colorado Pols

Our site was bedeviled by technical problems yesterday, caused by a combination of heavy election-year traffic and a new but underconfigured server we migrated to this past weekend. Over the last few months, we have strained the capacity of the low-cost shared hosting environment the site lived in, which necessitated the major upgrade performed this weekend.

Yesterday, while our faithful readers were cursing at us as our site loaded at a glacial pace (if at all), our technical people were slaving away doing all of the things to make WordPress not just run, but run right on this new quad-core dedicated server. We've been assured that this server overall is vastly better suited to the traffic loads we routinely get during election season, and we're even more beefed up now by "caching" technology at both the server and WordPress level. With any luck, the performance problems we've been having recently won't recur.

Hopefully we've explained this all correctly, since we'll be the first to confess we're just bloggers; not technical experts. If you encounter any trouble using the site, please send a message to alva@coloradopols.com and we'll get the experts on it.

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26 thoughts on “We’re On A Bigger Badder Server Now, Really

              1. I suspect that the copy of the comments file got corrupted  as it was being backed up and transferred to the new server for anyone that was actively commenting on Sunday evening during the cutover.

                  1. If I'm right (and I'm not saying I am), They probably could restore our comments file so that new comments would get added to a clean version.  Right now, I don't know if our comments are being saved at all.  I still get a blank page.

  1. Still get nothing on "My Comments". No thinking . No message. No nothing.  At least I didn't get logged off this time. Other stuff seems fine. I miss quick convenient way to check if somebody has replied to me farther back than what shows on recent comments but, after the last two days, this is way better.

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