Hey! I think I just got royally insulted! LOL
Everyone, the outages we've been seeing lately have all of us scratching our heads. But we're pretty sure the things that'll be happening this weekend will help. Remains to be seen.
If it hasn't been mentioned yet (hopefully a blurb soon?), iHub is getting moved to a new ISP this weekend and come Monday, it should be running on 3 load-balanced servers rather than the single one that's having to strain pretty hard to keep up anymore. With good (read "shockingly expensive") switches and load balancing hardware. There will be a pretty long outage Saturday (evening?) as the machines are physically moved from the old facility to the new and installed.
The weekend after that, the plan is to move SI, and when all is said and done, have 4 webservers handling both sites combined and the ability to add webservers easily anytime we need them. And have a degree of redundancy and failover protection we've never had before. Even the loss of a database server should result in no more than a brief outage since each site's db server will be a mirrored hot spare of the other.
All of the "help" has actually been doing some good, but so far it's been, out of necessity, very behind the scenes. Of course, the ISP move won't be so much behind the scenes, but it should really be a huge improvement to the reliability and performance of the sites.
