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We will be upgrading this old tired server soon. As you can see it's really slowed down today, no doubt due to the release of IC3. The Olympics are also hogging bandwidth to and from Europe as well.

The new server will cost more every month, so if any of you feel inclined to help out with the costs, you can donate to the site, or subscribe to ICMag (now only $50 a year).

Hopefully the new server will be much faster than the old one (that's at least 5 years old now!) We are overdue for the upgrade and need it more than ever.

I have a Plan B to add another server if the upgrade isn't sufficient.

Thanks to all who have been so patient with the lag times.

I'll announce when the move to the new server will happen. There will probably be some significant downtime. It will take at least 24 hrs to transfer the 1,000,000+ photos, but the site won't be down nearly so long.

[mofeta]

Good news.

I hope it is blazing fast.

Are you upgrading the bandwidth too?

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We have unlimited bandwidth with a very fast pipeline. It's the webserver that is slow. The database server doesn't even sweat. It's the 1 million+ images and the big banners and now the IC3 downloads that are slowing us down. If we end up with another server that will the third one, and it would be an image server.

I noticed that many ppl trying to download the magazine are taking a very long time. If they're trying to download to a phone or using a dial-up type line, it goes slow and they time out eventually. We can't fix everyone's connection, only our server.

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We have unlimited bandwidth with a very fast pipeline. It's the webserver that is slow. The database server doesn't even sweat. It's the 1 million+ images and the big banners and now the IC3 downloads that are slowing us down. If we end up with another server that will be the third one, and it would be an image server.

I noticed that many ppl trying to download the magazine are taking a very long time. If they're trying to download to a phone or using a dial-up type line, it goes slow and they time out eventually (slowing down the site even more). We can't fix everyone's connection, only our server.

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[mofeta]

Right on, right on!

Any chance that the new server will allow you to relax the rules on pics per post, posts viewed per page, small search terms, etc that you had to institute in the past few months?

Man, I am glad you came back!

[fukndenny]

I was wondering what was going on.

Seems very slow the last few days.

Glad to hear.

[OrganicBuds]

Does this mean the server will be fast enough so we don't have to re-size photos? I sure as hell hope so.

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Originally Posted by mofeta

Right on, right on!

Any chance that the new server will allow you to relax the rules on pics per post, posts viewed per page, small search terms, etc that you had to institute in the past few months?

Man, I am glad you came back!

Originally Posted by OrganicBuds

Does this mean the server will be fast enough so we don't have to re-size photos? I sure as hell hope so.

That's the plan. I know how frustrating it's been for many of you dealing with uploading images. We may have to get a third server to enable these features again.

We appreciate those of you who have followed our instructions to lessen the load on the server in the meantime.

Traffic has picked up a lot since I came back and that has made things slower, although it's still not as busy as it once was. But back then the images were smaller and we didn't have nearly so many on the server as we do now.

[b00m]

Thanks for all the hard work that you and the rest of the ICMag Crew do Skip mate
Very Much Appreciated