Good morning, boys and girls!
I've recently invested in a massive upgrade to the hosting and maintenance infrastructure for the Website Management services at my web development company, Harness Media. As part of the deal, I secured some great upgrades specifically for the SurveyorConnect server.
First of all, we'll be traversing to a newer, faster server in a new datacenter later today/tonight. That is phase one of the upgrades.
Tomorrow, we'll be bolting on some extra goodies that will make the server more efficient and performant. I'm hopeful that this will translate to faster load times for you.
While I can't guarantee it will be faster for everyone (because the site is served through various places all over Earth), I'm hopeful that we'll all see at least a little bit of improvement. Making things work better starts at home with our own server, so we'll see how it goes. A community forum is a very intense type of website due to all the moving parts, so we'll likely never be a sub-one-second load time website like most of my clients' websites. But we can surely try to keep it under a few seconds, if possible.
Plus, it's not all just about being faster -- it's about keeping things updated and secure. Moving to a new server will mean that we'll have all the latest hardware, operating system, and other things that keep this place ticking. The website itself will not change as part of these upgrades.
So... if you arrive here at some point later today or tomorrow and see the maintenance splash page, you'll know why. I hope to keep the downtime(s) as brief as possible, as I don't want to cause any unnecessary discomfort. Cross your fingers!
See you on the other side!
