Hi guys, Trevor and I are about to undertake a major server upgrade for Omegaforums.net.

The last upgrade was performed around December last year and was expected to last us probably around a year to a year and a half, however the growth rate of Omegaforums has significantly exceeded even our most generous estimates over the last 11 months, and while we've been able to use extraordinary measures to keep up with demand over the last two months, we're probably less than two weeks away from exhausting our hardware resources.

Our new hardware has double the RAM, four times the disk space (RAID'ed SSDs of course) and the latest generation of multi-socket Xeons. We're also using some newer tuning methods to get even more out of the new hardware once its online so hopefully we'll get more than a year out of this next setup

Currently we're testing the new server and will bring it live at some point soon, in the next 24 hours, during that downtime which we expect to be one to two hours, feel free to chat with us on twitter via @omegaforums. Thanks!

 

You're welcome, always happy to hear people are enjoying themselves here. The future looks bright for us.

 

And we should be back, still doing some testing and work but site should be navigable

 

They can't afford us

 

Its your 10,782 posts that made us have to upgrade lol

 

It's like we're hunting and we're going from 4 beagles to 16 beagles

 

This new one's totally fresh, we don't touch the hardware since it's a world away from us. There's multiple servers in several data-centres actually, encrypted backups are stored in Australia too.

 

Surely it doesn't take 16 beagles to catch those Canadians fleeing from the ice and poutine!

 

Poutine is banned in Australia

 

What they told Trev he was getting.


What a visit on location reveals.

 

You guys have no idea...

I'm pretty sure we're paying for redundant hamsters.