As part of our long term server infrastructure upgrades, we are integrating with Rackspace's Cloud Files to store all your images, documents and multimedia. Cloud Files provides 3 redundant copies of your files (in case any single version gets corrupted or is on hardware that fails), and it delivers those files to your visitors through a CDN (Content Delivery Nework) that caches a copy of the files closer to the visitor which speeds up your site load times. It also allows us to offer unlimited amounts of scalable storage and fast bandwidth at competitive rates.

We're happy to announce that last week we successfully integrated all multimedia (video and audio files) to Cloud Files. This week we will move over documents (e.g. pdfs and other files from your downloadable resource library), and then we'll move over all your images.

Once we complete the Cloud Files migration (hopefully this week) we will begin the web server migration to Rackspace's Cloud Servers. This will provide much better protection against hardware failures, easy scalability, better backups and faster recovery in a disaster.

If there is another web server failure, your files will be hosted elsewhere on Cloud Files (so they are still technically accessible and they won't be affected). With Cloud Servers we will be able to quickly spin up a new version of the server your site is on, from a nightly backup image. And since the majority of files are hosted elsewhere, the database is hosted redundantly on separate servers, the recovery should be just a few minutes as opposed to 30 hours like last time.

Thanks for your support and patience. We'll keep you posted on our progress.