You may notice some slight disruptions occasionally at the moment, if you notice anything weird, like broken pages (as in still broken after refreshing a couple of times, or errors) or anything let us know at [email protected] or [email protected]

 

And we're back, on a shiny new version of PHP, which should be about 25% faster than previous.

Let us know if you see anything weird happening.

 

Well he's retired, he has a lot of time on his hands, so its either that or getting into REAL trouble. Like eBay trouble. With credit cards.

 

They take credit cards?

 

Oh we could tell you, but then we'd have to kill you.

 

The site costs dramatically less than you probably think. We're thinking of upgrading soon to more powerful hardware, but even that upgraded hardware is dramatically cheaper than you think. There are two ways to do things, you can either spend lots of money on server hardware and then keep throwing money at it to make it faster, or you can run a custom environment, tune it for performance, and keep everything light and efficient. Doing the later can give performance gains in the 10X to 50X range over a conventional setup.

You really wouldn't believe me if I told you how little we pay.

 

Oh and by the way, at some point we may remove signatures or at the least limit them to a single line of text only. Two reasons, pages load faster (both because the server does less, and because your computer downloads less) and also Trev being the designer hates things that are an eyesore, like most graphical signatures are.

 

See some people have reasonably inoffensive signatures, then there's going to be someone with a bright blue orange and purple signature with stupid crap on it, and if we tell /him/ to delete his signature because it makes people's eyes bleed with its awfulness he'll be like "How come so and so is allowed to have a Seamaster logo" and if we explain to him that his signature looks awful he'll get all hurt.

 

Had to run some updates about an hour ago that required some downtime to install, should be fine now, if not let us know!

 

Applied some updates, might have noticed a few moments of downtime, all done now