Forum Hardware Improvements

[ubuntu-geek]

Hello Everyone,

I just wanted to take a quick minute or so and let the community know some changes we made to the forums hardware these past couple of days. I am sure you have been noticing over the past couple of months the forums were slow or even down for extended periods of time. Our hardware was simply overloaded with the huge growth the forums have received these past couple of years.

During the past couple of week's we've been working hard with Canonical to get more hardware to help reduce the strain our servers have been experiencing. I am sure you have noticed the forums being down this week for extended periods of time while we've made configuration changes to facilitate the new hardware that was put in place today at 12:00UTC.

So far we've been running with the new web server configuration for about 3 hours and the forums are snappy and very responsive. However, we will continue to monitor in case any issues arise.

I would like to thank everyone who was involved in making this upgrade happen and for the forum community for hanging in there while we made these changes.

We appreciate the community here and we hope everyone will have a better experience when using the forums.

[kostkon]

Good news, good news...!

But the forums are still a little laggy for me. I am pretty sure this is temporary.

And, finally, a thanks from me to the mods (and Canonical) for this upgrade.

[LaRoza]

The sqeaky wheel gets the grease it seems

I am sure the FC is very happy to finally have new hardware. Have fun with it

[bapoumba]

Thanks to you for all your hard work, u-g

[Rocket2DMn]

A big shout out to the people at Canonical for hearing and supporting us. Thank you all, the community really appreciates it.

[hessiess]

Forum seems the same to me

[rudihawk]

Well down here in South Africa is seems light years faster! Thanks!

[Elfy]

Thanks for that - seems to be a huge improvement here

[y@w]

Much better. Thanks!

So, just out of curiousity and since this is the Community Cafe.. What kind of machines are powering this bad boy? I know I'm curious and I'm sure there's plenty of other Linux geeks here too that would like to read about it.

[jpeddicord]

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