Upcoming Migration to more Scalable, Robust Servers

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September 27 2013
September 27 2013
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In July we bagan officially working on rebuilding Gutensite 2.0 from the ground up, with a new codebase and new server architecture. But shortly after we began, our existing servers gave us a fright and we knew we had to step back and make certain that the server architecture for 1.0 was fully stable and will continue to be scalable far into the future. So we have been heads down for the past 2 months working on this massive overhaul.

The migration has been progressing steadily and is nearly complete! We have successfully migrated all images, documents and multimedia files to Rackspace's Cloud Files, which make them faster to load, cheaper to store, redundantly secure against data loss. The entire CMS and all the accounts have also been migrated to a cluster of Rackspace's Cloud web and database servers, and are fully operational. We are now in the final stages of making sure that the virtual hosting and domain creation, modification, and delete functions all work, as well as migrating some third party tools like Email Marketing.

We hope to be ready to begin migrating your website in the next couple of weeks. But the good news is, your website is working on the new server (it's just waiting to point your domain there). So even if the old servers blew up completely, we would be okay!

These sort of changes are absolutely necessary to ensuring your website remains reliable and stable. This project required major overhaul of the codebase, in order to make the websites work on a cluster of servers instead of one monolithic server. We hope to minimize the bugs that we inevitably introduced, but we hope you will be patient with us and help us find and fix whatever problems you notice.

Thanks so much.


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