The switch may cause some oddities until DNS updates propagate to everyone. You might want to clear your browser cache and restart the browser to help speed up the change.
Along with the new servers we introduced individual timezone settings for the users. You can access the new user settings page at http://login.afterdawn.com/settings/. The timezone is set under Edit settings. Under the settings page you can also define whether or not you want to 1) subscribe to discussion threads by default and 2) use your signature in forum posts or news comments.
The server switch and timezone implementation may cause some weirdness during the transit period (e.g. forum posts showing up in wrong places).
For those interested in tech specs, here's a rough outline of our current setup:
Database backends: 2* Dell PowerEdge 1900 Dual Intel Xeon 5130, 8GB RAM, SAS RAID 10 array
Web backends:4* Dell PowerEdge 840 Conroe 3040, 1GB RAM, SATA
Statistics and static data:1* Dell PowerEdge 840 Conroe 3060, 4GB RAM, SATA discs
Advertisements:1* Dell PowerEdge 840 Conroe 3060, 4GB RAM, SATA RAID-1
Load balancing:Foundry ServerIron XL
Download servers:6* various configurations with various specifications
Off-site backup, development and versioning server
If you encounter any problems with the new servers please let me know by posting to this thread.
--AfterDawn.com staff
Written by: Jari Ketola @ 12 Oct 2007 7:31
