Server Migration Complete
This last month has been a slow one for Jetrecord, if only in terms of performance. The once-snappy server environment got bogged down and there didn’t appear to be any reason for it.
I would love to tell you that we got famous and were seeing record growth, but that’s not the case. We just hit something in the road and no one could figure out what.
A quick ticket to our host confirmed that we weren’t crazy (well, if you don’t count the fact that we refer to ourselves in the first person plural when it’s just one person running things.) Apparently sites of all kinds were seeing trouble with the particular version of the OS we were on. They offered to move us to a new, updated version for no charge. Of course, we accepted.
Migrating everything over, getting all the settings, the data, the cron jobs, the symlinks, and all else is no small feat, so it took a little longer than expected. As of right now, though, you’re reading this from our clean-as-a-whistle server, so it looks like everything worked.
And I made sure to migrate the data several times just to confirm that the precious flight logs would be in good hands. We’re backing up twice a day, same as always. And I did the final migration right as the DNS was switched, which means that even if you were editing right up to the last minute, it should be there. Of course, let me know if you see otherwise.
Anyway, performance should be back up to where it was before the slowdown. There are more changes coming but I’m not able to speak to those right now. The most important change coming is that I’m going to be a dad for the second time, to another boy, some time in the next few weeks. If I take longer to answer your emails, you’ll know why.
Cheers!
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