For those of you who care or who have noticed, we’ve been experiencing some major server issues ever since the four day period of down time we had about a month ago. During the down time, we moved the site to another server - technically just replaced the hardware in our old server.

Since then, we’ve been plagued with problems. Comment-goers will notice that the comment system on the main site’s news has been down since then, partly due to the fact that Tim left for China a day or two after the server was back on time, and partly because we’ve been blaming the problem on the wrong thing. Inheritance Forums posters will have noticed the “IPS Driver Error” you get every ten minutes or so, post times going wacko, and a number of other problems. I think our current server is a lemon.

This is all being resolved because I’ve ordered a new, better server! For those tech nerds out there who ask, here are our current server stats, and our new server stats:

Current (P.O.S.) Server:
Dual Athlon 246, 2 GB RAM, SATA 250GB HDD + 36GB SCSI Drive

New, Better Server:
Dual Athlon 250, 2 GB RAM, SATA II 350GB + 36GB SCSI Drive

The additional 36 GB SCSI drive houses our MySQL databases, which run our scripts (IF, this blog, etc).

Anyway, I’m told that the new server will be online in the next 12 hours or so… after that, we just have to move everything over. And since IF is the site with the most problems, we’ll be moving that over first. Also, Tim gets home from China in a little over 24 hours, so the site news comments should be online and fully functional by Saturday or so!

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