AGameAWeek Blog - 2024-06-08 - Blogging Anew

[Intro] And so.. We moved. Hello, and welcome to the new server! [verse] I do hope you can see this. Please do let me know in the comments (and maybe email/ mastodon/twitter/etc, because I'm not 100% sure the comments are working!!) [verse] Thankfully this particular move didn't take 6 months, like the house move, and all appears to have worked fairly smoothly. [chorus] There are a hundred or so errors in my error logs this morning, but I should be able to sift through those throughout the rest of today. [drop] [bridge] Hopefully all will be nice and calm and smooth by midday. [verse] The spiderbots and crawlers are currently having a field day, since I haven't yet installed the IPBanning that I had on the previous server. [spoken] I think that'll be the first task today. [verse] As far as my "Server Stress" testing goes, the new server's been sticking around the 0.5 mark, whilst the old server had reached up beyond about 2.0 pretty much none-stop, so that's definitely a better thing. [chorus] The new server costs about the same (slightly less) than the old server, and we've upgraded from a 2 Core CPU to an 8 Core, and from 4Gb of ram to 16Gb. [spoken] That oughta be more than enough to handle the stresses of AGameAWeek, etc. [drop] [bridge] So far, SpikeDislike, Shoebox, Browsercade, PixelCubes as well as AGameAWeek and SoCoder have all made the transition to the new server. [spoken] There are LOTS of error messages to work through, but they've mostly successfully moved along just fine. [chorus] Next I need to do JSE, which has a couple of very important SQL elements that I don't want to break (since it's all the code that people uploaded) so I'm doing that gently. [outro] And then there's Foldapuz, which is VERY reliant on PHP working right, and the upgrade from PHP7 to PHP8 is a huge change. I'm leaving that until last!!