with my knowledge  very..very limited in this aspect, i can  still speak as a User.

  The bottom line, is we'll have a  brand new server. a bit 'slower' doesn't mean much. even a fullsecond?.. you can't  type your  name in a second?

 As long  was everything migrates over, and we don't lose  anyone?  I'm  happy!

I was speaking with my testing hat on :)

::chuckles:: at elast you know what your  doing.. My testing  hat is  tinfoil with a propeller on top!

Yeah... the new server is down.  Have been looking into the performance issues and I noticed it was booting an old kernel.  Rebooted and it hasn't come back.  Will update this message when it's back.

Server is back up, was about 12 hours ago but was asleep (and then looking after my real baby).
This message was last edited by the user at 04:52, Sun 11 Feb 2018.

The propeller helps scatter the Orbital Mind Control Laser's rays...

I'm slightly (pleasantly) surprised the site is currently running on only 3gb of RAM, and that the database is only 14gb!

Howdy all.  A quick update to let you know that the proposed move has not gone ahead due to poor and unreliable performance of the new host.  I've tried to work with them to get it resolved for over a month now but I've decided enough is enough as they don't seem to be able to help (or really acknowledge there's a problem).  I've asked the account closed and I'm looking at an alternate vendor now.  You will find that the beta site will stop working once they cancel the server (until I get the new one going).

In reply to jase (msg # 48):

Sorry to hear of these setbacks. Is there any pressing need that would help move things forward if it were met?  (In short, is there anything RPoL members can do to help?)

Our second go at a new server is operational, located at http://new.rpol.net.  Much better server at roughly the same price as the one we didn't go to, which is obviously nice.  I'm also finding it's faster than this server.

As before be aware that it'll look very similar to here, it's a direct clone from this site including all your games and recent posts.  Don't get sucked in into forgetting you're on the test site!  If you post there it will not post here and will eventually be lost.  The front page will constantly warn you.

For those who want to know what we're moving it, it's the "Slice 8192" from https://buyvm.net/kvm-dedicated-server-slices.  The benefit of virtualisation is that if we ever want more resources we can just move up to the next slice.

P.S.  Belatedly, no thanks horus.  (c;  Was just a case of finding a better provider and then waiting (quite a while) for stock to be available.

I'm currently getting a timeout in Firefox and 'can't reach this server' in Edge, trying to access the new server.  :<

Same, and various website status checkers can't reach it either.

Probably just needs guest permissions updating.  :>

Ha, whoops, must have left the firewall too restrictive.  Will fix shortly.  Thanks for trying so quickly!

Ok, try again now.  Was so secure only I had access!  (c;  Thanks again for checking it out!

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Excellent - working now and about 50/66% faster  based on the "generated in" times I'm getting. :>

I type over a hundred words a minute on desktop. And my name is short. I can definitely type it in under a minute.

yeah..i'm not even close...

Got the same result over here :)

*crosses fingers*

Hmm it seems to be faster but currently the profile for the cast isn't showing up. As in the description or anything entered into it. I am not sure if this is where I should post about it but so far that's the only issue I have seen.

In reply to silverelf (msg # 62):

Yep, same with all of my games.

Thanks.  Currently investigating, it's a major change in PHP version which is causing the issue.  Fix soon..ish!  (c;

Thank you!

I never really thought of RPoL as slow, but DANG it's fast now! It's almost creeping me out how fast it is.

Like just now, I got the "someone has posted in this thread since you've been typing" error, and it came up so fast I thought I missed clicking the Post button!