Site Outage Notice for LonghornBlogs.com & Others

As some of you might have already known, my company hosts it's servers at ServerBeach. They're a great hoster, and have treated us very well. They were recently bought out by a European hosting company called Peer1, and have since constructed a new datacenter. Last week, our servers were moved to the new facility, and over the past week, InterscapeUSA.com, LonghornBlogs.com and other sites have been experiencing intermittent outtages. I confirmed on Thursday that the hard drive on our webserver is failing (most likely damaged in transit), which is the reason for the current outtage.

Because of the network upgrade, ServerBeach now has some new server offerings, as well as faster network connections. So I just purchased a new dual hard drive box with a 100MB port to become our new database server, and we're promoting the existing database server to a web server. This should mean that our websites should be served up much faster than before, because there will be a bigger pipe available for the VPN connection, and we can move the databases to separate servers

I'm glad this happened now, and not after Indigo and Avalon launched, cause I'd have been pretty pissed. At any rate, while I'm shuffling all of our assets around, all of our community sites will remain offline. I'm anticipating everything will be back up early next week. It's just taking a while to back up 7GB of log files...