Kaizoku-Fansubs Gets a New Server
I used to count experience as something that was nice to have, but simply reduced the learning curve of a project. In the event of the Kaizoku-Fansubs move, it also reduced the amount of headaches in migrating data as well. We got everything moved over and transitioned by 9:00 this morning, leaving us a whole 12 hours for the DNS to finish resolving for everyone else. The tracker is working, the forums are up, and we are barely making an impact on the new server-- exactly what we could have wanted. The folks at anikei.com were nice enough to lend us the server for use. It's a very powerful server though, and seems to be holding up a couple of very good anime sites. Most notably Anikei.
It turns out that the Xoops CMS we were using was so PHP / MySQL intensive that it was binding up the server. There was simply no room left for requests. The end result took down K-F's tracker, forums, and 8 other web sites who were also on infra's servers. It's a good thing we moved too.…