Hey all,

Long time since I’ve posted on this dear blog we setup. To give you an idea on what’s going on right now, we have just finished transferring all accounts from magnet onto our Core2QUAD dedicated server we recently ordered. It took me around 5 hours to transfer all the accounts over, due to the magnitude of the size of some of the accounts we have hosted. So guys on the Variable server are now probably wondering ‘What’s going on?’; I’ll tell ya’.

What’s going on with Variable

As previously stated in emails and on our community forums, we said we were going to move to a dedicated server from the good ol’ VPS’ we were on; as they weren’t quite up to the power to run the websites our users wanted to; plus storage space has gone up quite a bit now we are on this dedicated server. So as for the Variable users, you are also going to be transferred over to the Core2QUAD, we have installed and configured all the programming languages we have had in the previous servers, meaning there should be no compatibility issues with websites during the transfer. - If there is, just open up a thread on our support side of our community forums.

To cut to the chase, I’m currently transferring all websites on Variable to Quad and I have been doing this since 1:00PM - to which now is 6:29PM and at current on 57% of data/websites have been transferred. This does not mean that it will take another 5+ hours to complete as all the big websites have been transferred over. I suspect the transfer will complete in an hour or so, and this is when I will be changing DNS entries to follow to the new webserver. I was initially thinking that I could finish the whole transfer yesterday, in the afternoon however this was of course premature. Once things are done and dusted, thing should go well, at current RAM usage has stayed low and server loads on the Core2QUAD have not gone above 1.0; which is amazing, considering the VPS’ were struggling quite a bit to cope with the accounts on the server. - The only reason loads are going up is as the transfer is at current taking place and this is occuring on a period which is concurrent and an on-going process.

We are also looking into backing up solutions for only those who pay now, as the price of backing up files and accounts is going up, since more space is being consumed, in the end it would work out that we would be paying way over to much, thus why we need to split the costs and get people to pay tiny monthly fee’s to help us pay for the backing up of your account!

Once everything is done, just wait for the new design and aspect of which Vlexo is turning into!

Regards,

Jonathan Jones

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