Server Update

We've recovered from the server that we had last week (though were unable to retrieve any of the lost data :() and have put in extra measures to prevent anything happening like that in the future. We've also learned a ton during the process which will help us a lot in our...

Server move!

We're going to start a server move on Wednesday (April 20th) at 1AM. We expect that it'll take most of the night as there are a few steps we have to take.

- Backup our (massive) database, and then move it across the internet to our new server. This takes awhile.
- Import that database backup into our new server. For those of you tech geeks out there, this new server is a beast. With 36GB of RAM and 4x solid state drives, our database should be smooth!
- Move all of our files to the new web servers. This process has already been started and we expect it to be completed before tuesday rolls around.
- Move all our images to the new server. This is even larger than the database, and will take awhile to backup / move / unpack.

Now, for the cool stuff. We're moving Subeta to "the cloud". You might have heard that in commercials or from your banker or the guy who fixes your iPhone. What it means for you is that we'll have the amazing ability to just start up new web servers whenever the site starts to get under load. For example, during the Masquerade when it started to lag (or really any other event...) we can just click a button and start up a new webserver to help distribute the load. Once the event is over, we can disband that server. This makes it easy for us to scale the site (and much cheaper!) and keep it running fast for you guys.

We'll be updating the twitter and facebook page while we are working on the move to keep you updated!