Hi Guys,
Sorry for the spurious service the last 24hrs, and the downtime this evening since 4:30pm but I am pleased to announce that we are now in America.

It will be normal to experience a slightly slower "Response time" from clicking the mouse as your request is now traveling a lot further than it did, but the info is going to come back a whole lot faster than it did before and hopefully we will be more efficient with improved uptime and no discernible effect when we are busy and under great load. On the whole im sure it will be a good move and we should enjoy improvements once the server cache has built up over the next 24hrs.

The next day or so will be a test period with us tweaking one thing or another, but all in all an excellent pain free migration was performed by Adrian and his web team. Great work as always guys, thank you.

As many of you will know, we have a major software upgrade or lots of bug fixes planned too, and those will be undertaken once we are sure that SN is stable in its new home, so watch this space.

 

yeh yeh, very nice

but can we have the 'good ol' search back

 

UK-based website now hosted in the US of A? Expect a major backlash with response times and all the other hassles associated with transatlantic links. How can the submission be slower, but the response be quicker if they're both travelling the same transatlantic links?

Been there, tried that and moved my sites straight back to the UK. Might be good for IB, but not good for your members. It's nonsensical to move a 99% UK-based readership to servers in the US.

Good luck - I think you'll need it!

 

USA rules good move.

 

They dont at football or anything no created by americans ....although they do well at torturing "prisoners of war"

 

Ouch.... dont bash me mate...

Most of us over here across the pond are very good people..... and do as you LOVE fast cars.

 

So do we now have to use the terms 'hood', 'trunk' etc?

 

Ive noticed that since the move SN is slower to respond and slower to load the pages, including a number of timeouts

 

I think saying it's running a bit slow is an understatement...

hopefully it will get up to speed but, how it is at the moment, to be honest I'm glad I'm not a paying member yet.

Ady

 

Well I'll show some gratitute even if nobody else will

Big thanks due to Stu and IB. Looking forward to the increased speed and reliability on the new server, but especially the new software.

 

Take your tongue out of his ****......

Increased speed? I have yet to see that

 

Since the move it's not blocked by websense at work. Big from me.

 

I suspect the move to the US was purely based on a monetary saving. If it keeps the site up and running then its a good move. I haven't noticed any slow-down so far & hopefully the software upgrades will sort a few annoying bugs out.

good work!

 

Jealous?

Patience, the speed will come.

 

Faster to load pages for me and I am in Lancashire.

Please bear in mind that a server move like this also requires tuning on the new servers, routers etc. When you experience slowness it may be down to tuning isuses which will graduallyimprove as the techs monitor and change things.

 

in jest,
now we can hang out with nasioc,rs25.com,clubwrx.net,wrxfanatics,i-club,iwsti,forester.org,sqc-ny,3gwrx etc etc all in sunny USA !

oh but we already do that !

ClubWRX Forum - Subaru Impreza WRX and STi Community and Forums - View Single Post - UK and Ex-Pats chat forum

 

Exactly as described - first click seems to take a tad longer, but then the page load is much faster.

Happy so far!

 

Seems the speeds are the same for me


Except search isnt working.....I need search!!! lol

 

Me too, was thinking that just this min.....

 

I have never known it to be this slow before? its like having a dial up connection all over again

it must be all the yanks jumping on here now

 

east coast does not wake up until around 1.30-2p.m so not them


No speed issues for me, though as a paying member we get the full unthrottled thoughput

(sorry, did you lot not know that )

 

and the rest: http://www.internetbrands.com/ib

 

cant say i notice any difference........................................ ............yet!

 

Seems the same and when loading threads with pics it times out now and again

 

It does seem somewhat quicker to access for me, but then I am on the same continent as the servers

 

I hate America.

UK all the way

 

Any implications around the European data directive and personal data now been held outside of the EU?

Transfer of personal data to third countries
Third countries is the term used in EU legislation to designate countries outside the European Union. Personal data may only be transferred to third countries if that country provides an adequate level of protection. Some exceptions to this rule are provided, for instance when the controller himself can guarantee that the recipient will comply with the data protection rules.

Don't recall any guarantee being offered?

 

Can you please fix the search

I seems to time out a lot more. Surely it would have made sense to keep the servers in the same continent as the user base to minimise the banwidth and latency issues.

 

I feckin had septics and all things American, this forum is now hosted in a land where you can legally **** and marry a horse, prisoners get tortured by the CIA and 8 out of 10 of its residents think Tony Blair is our president....

So a BIG whoop-de-do on the move stateside

 

PS - It's even slower than normal.... yeehaww!