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Hey all,

Sorry if I haven’t been around as much lately. As least with the forums, blog and working on 2.0. It’s just been a hectic month.

However, I do have some good news. We’re in for a few infrastructure changes onver the next few weeks. Here’s the quick rundown…

I’ve purchased a new server. In fact, this blog has been running on that new server for about a week now. It has double the memory, way more than double the hard drive space and is MUCH faster. The existing server is really struggling with the increased traffic load we’re received over the past few months, so this should help get rid of some of that down time.

I’ll be moving the main site, wiki and forums over tonight (sometime around 4 to 5 AM GMT — May 20, 2007). The downtime should be minimal, and it’s pretty much the slowest traffic time of our entire week, so I’m not TOO concerned about it affecting too many people. If I see a problem and have to abort, I will. In fact, I was going to do it last week, but mediawiki wasn’t having any parts of it, so I gave up. The issues are resolved now, so it should be good to go.

Gforge (dev.cmsmadesimple.org) will not be making the move, unfortunately. Gforge is great and all, but it’s entirely too much system for what we do with it. The mailing lists are annoying, it’s creating all kind of users and directories on the server, it’s cron jobs are taxing the system, etc.

Instead, I’ve rewritten a minimal gforge replacement in ruby on rails and figured out how to migrate the data. The rewrite isn’t complete yet, but it’s very close. I should have something working in another week or so, at which point I’ll be asking people to help to beta test and work out the kinks. Then when it’s time for it go live, we’ll just do a final database migration and shut gforge off forever.

After the first version goes live, I’ll be looking for people to help add some new features, so stay tuned for that.

After all this is done and the old server is off… the summer will be spent on 2.0. I’ll have another announcement regarding that soon, but the dev team and I have to work out a few scheduling issues before I’ll announce what it is.

I’ll make sure I post an update to this message after the migration is complete, for the curious…

Thanks!
Ted

UPDATE — The sites are moved. Everything seems to be working correctly. Let me know if something isn’t.

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