Software Updates and Speed Improvements

[Jordan]

If you where on at all during march 16th, 2014. You would have notice that the boards have been extremely slow. Along with this, you might have came across a notice that the forums might have been closed for updates.

I am pleased to announce that we are back up, speeds are back to normal, and I have upgraded our XenForo Software to 1.3 (previously 1.2.4).

To check out any updates and improvements you can go ahead and check this message:
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/xenforo-1-3-0-released.70210/#post-733670

On another note, I hope to see speed increases through out the next month while I configure our new Content Delivery Network (CDN). I have purchased a package over at MaxCDN to help distribute our server load by displaying all images, javascripts, and data files over servers from all across the world that would be closest to you. I will soon be also adding our CSS to be loaded from the CDN as well.

Not only will this help decrease server bandwidth, but will also speed up the site considerably.
If anyone finds any issues with the site or errors please let me know!

Read March, 2014 news letter online:
http://eepurl.com/QDMlj

 

[AUFred]

Thanks Jordan. We will kick the tires.

 

[MMMMatilde]

I don't know what any of that means but yay! Thanks!


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[NuckingFuts]

I don't know what any of that means but yay! Thanks!


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Yeah what she said!

 

[Jordan]

I don't know what any of that means but yay! Thanks!


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Yeah what she said!

Ha ha well basically a CDN distributes your content to servers all around the world.
here is a picture so far of the stats of 24 hours:
http://prntscr.com/31vrt7

So, to make it easier to understand, the server that OTz is currently on physically is hosted in Dallas, US. If someone from London, England trys to load OTz, they have to load our content all the way from across the ocean from another country, and it takes longer to load.
However, with a CDN, because all of our images, data, javascripts, etc are put on servers throughout the world, when you load our page, you will be loading content from a server that is closest to you making it load faster.

It helps with both speed and performance. However, if our main physical server still goes down, the site still won't load. So this is more of a boost then a fix.

 

[NuckingFuts]

Thanks that makes sense now.

 

[MMMMatilde]

It makes sense but it still hurts my head.


Matilde.

 

[The Man]

Working smoothly. ..good work.

 

[NuckingFuts]

It makes sense but it still hurts my head.


Matilde.

Tildy I can rub it for you! ;-)

 

[Jackass master]

Must be why I kept erroring out when I tried to get on a few days ago.

 

[Jordan]

Must be why I kept erroring out when I tried to get on a few days ago.

Could be a very good reason xD
My apologies!

 

[MMMMatilde]

Tildy I can rub it for you! ;-)

Could you also go to work for me, do my uni work and plan the rest of my wedding??? It's not that far off a rub of the head. Promise.


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[NuckingFuts]

Could you also go to work for me, do my uni work and plan the rest of my wedding??? It's not that far off a rub of the head. Promise.


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Yup that sounds fair! Lol

 

[Veronica]

ur awesome jordan!