Site Upgrades and Server Updates

Hey Everyone.

We did some essential software updates (Core and Modules) and things seem to be running a tad bit more efficiently.

IF you notice anything having weird behavior/not acting like it used to, please let us know.

On a 2nd note, We are currently about 90% operational at the new datacenter.

BigCloset is spread across 3 servers as planned and each of the 3 new servers are FASTER and have more than TWICE as much memory as our previous server had. We have constantly running replication that should ensure no more data-loss issues due to hardware failure, and take database snapshots to store off-site every 6 hours.

We are still experiencing SOME code somewhere in Drupal which LOVES to hang our database server and shoots the load up, but we are hoping to figure out what's going on and fix it soon.

In the last couple months, we have put in a LOT of work, and Money to get things working at optimum rates. I myself have made two trips to the datacenter which is 2hrs away each way, plus the MANY hours of work we've all done remotely.

I want to personally thank everyone that has contributed in any way they can. Either with $ or Stories, or even by commenting and encouraging authors to keep posting here at BigCloset.

We have some very interesting ideas percolating that we hope to be able to share with our family here at BigCloset as things start to slow down on and the site stabilizes.

So again, THANK YOU, because this site would not be what it is without every one of our users, readers, bloggers, authors, moderators, editors and administrators.

-Piper, Erin, Cat and the BigCloset Staff.