Mostly. It doesn’t appear that we’ve lost any posts (Steve and I saved content from the last couple of days just in case). The Home page comes up well, and we can get into the “back end” of the ‘Grok to create more stuff for your edification and amusement.
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Second Announcement – GraniteGrok Will Go Dark TODAY at 2pm
by Skip
UPDATE: 2 hours warning!
It will take a “couple” hours is what we’ve been told to move to the new server. Time enough to get an incremental RESTORE from our current server onto what will be our new one – 3X better than this one.
Announcement – GraniteGrok will go Dark on Thursday, 2/17, at 2pm …
by Skip
But not for long, we hope. Thursday at 2 pm is when we are migrating from our current server to one that is 3X more powerful as I remarked before.
We’re Upgrading and GraniteGrok Could Experience Some Bumps Along the Way
by Skip
We are upgrading our server. Right now. As I type this. We are moving from a 6+year-old physical server (no longer supportable) to a virtual server all our own, on a physical server that is a BEAST. Yes, faster load times and more space to reduce or eliminate any crashes.
Reminder – We’re Still Making Some Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch Changes… (Growing Pains, Edition)
Last month I announced a few backend changes with an eye on improving page load speeds. We’re still doing that, and it’s working. We have also moved a few things and removed a few things.
Server Upgrade warning: because our readers are AWESOME and you’re BLOWING THE DOORS OFF!
by Skip
Due to the massive increase in our traffic / readers lately, we’ve been bumping up to our server’s capacity. What is really throwing us over the cliff has been a growing number of Bots that also crawling our content for various reasons at the same time. So while we’ve been going up and down the … Read more
Grok 3.0 – It’s almost time!
by Skip
We’ve been waiting a long time for this and, finally, it’s almost here. A lot of background work has been done by Perceptions Studio and yesterday was a massively long prototyping session as to how it will all fit together. We think
Grok 2.0 – Still under Construction
by Skip
Yeah, we’re up and then we’re down. The ‘Grok has been getting hit from both hardware problems with balky disk drives and recalcitrant RAID controllers and some software issues from moving from our old blogging platform. Dontcha just love Murphy’s Laws?? I think we need a healthy dose of boring for a while, but given … Read more