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Server Redundancy Upgrades Successful
March 23 2017
March 23 2017
Our planned web server infrastructure upgrades were completed successfully. It required some key changes to the Gutensite platform to allow sessions to persist across multiple servers, and for custom files to be accessible on all servers. Big thanks to Matt for taking on this task.
The new infrastructure allows us to do true "horizontal scaling", with load balancing and much better redundancy. That means that your website is hosted on multiple servers at once. Every page load is distributed across a network of servers that are balanced based on load. If one web server becomes unresponsive, or needs to be taken offline for maintenance, the other servers will take up the load and there should be no interruption or slowness. It's an exciting upgrade for us.
What's Next?
Our next immediate infrastructure plans are to migrate the Gutensite web and database servers from our current datacenter at Rackspace to our new datacenter at Linode. Rackspace is a widely respected hosting service, but over the years it has become a huge corporation with a wide variety of services that are not relevant to what we need. And their maintenance and support system isn't as responsive as we would like. In contrast Linode is also a large international company, but they have choosen to focus on a limited set of hosting services and they do them extraordinarily well. Their network architecture is superior in many ways that allow for easier scaling. We have been hosting our new 2.0 platform on Linode for the past 2 years of development and running live sites on it for private beta. We are thoroughly impressed with Linode's capabilities and responsiveness and are excited about the upgrade.
We will perform this upgrade in a way that has zero downtime and no interaction required from the majority of our users. We'll keep you posted.
Archives
June 10, 2022
Common Questions about Migrating Your Website from 1.0 to 2.0
Your website on the retro 1.0 version of our platform will continue to function until at least June 2023, and after that we will keep the old platform working as long as is necessary/reasonable to ...
June 06, 2022
Upgrade Your Old Website to Prevent Lawsuits and Improve Marketing
Over the last few years, we have been working on the overly ambitious project of rebuilding our Website Builder and Content Management System based on modern coding standards, cutting edge design, ...
June 10, 2022
The New Gutensite Website is Live on Our New Platform!
Did you notice we just launched a new version of our website? Go to https://gutensite.com to see what's new. Look around and imagine how your business could be helped if we transformed your website ...
October 06, 2021
ADA Compliance and Website Accessibility Standards
In the last few months clients have had a growing paranoia about a growing number of ADA lawsuits (Americans with Disabilities Act) for website accessability. There have been reports of "serial ...
September , 2021
New IDX Widget Going Live for Everyone
As part of our ongoing efforts to improve our system and also stay up to date with the changing technology requirements of each MLS, we have created an entirely new IDX Widget that was released to ...
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