I will be moving Ghacks to the new web server today which means that you might experience all kinds of problems with the site including disconnects, display errors, script errors or lack of updates because you are still being redirected to the old web server after the change to the DNS. The new managed server has many benefits over the old one but the main reason for making the switch was that the hardware of the unmanaged dedicated server was not able to keep up with the traffic at peak times.
That’s highly problematic and reduced the experience of many visitors that discovered the site for the first time. Ghacks will be up and running on the new server in less than eight hours if everything works out as planned. You will then be able to enjoy a better connection to the web server that will serve the website faster to your local computer system. It can take between 24-48 hours before all DNS servers have propagated the changes and are routing users to the new server and not the old one.
The worst case scenario is that something goes terribly wrong during migration which could mean a short, medium or long outage or even a transfer back to the old dedicated server for the time being until the problems have been sorted out.
There will be no more posts until the migration is completed. Comments that are posted today might not be taken over to the new website as well. If you want to contact me use the contact form on the top. Thanks for your patience and lets hope for the best!
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Okay migration seems to have worked. I’m on the new server already and the site is up and running. Let me know if you spot any problems.
Good luck with your new Hosting service!
Keep going with your interesting articles.
No new ghacks news/ story from 23 july till today, 26 july 18.00 uur Europe central time.
Try clearing the cache and flushing the DNS, migration was successful.