Hosting Provider Change - Uptime Report

As noted, I switched hosting services a couple of weeks ago. The new hosts have 10x the memory and there are two of them for load balancing. Here's a graph (c/o Pingdom) showing "downtime" incidents:

Notice any changes circa October 10th?

FYI, the incidents usually lasted on the order of ~2 minutes and correspond to a server restart, usually due to the site's pixel crunching overwhelming the CPU limit on the servers under load.

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Route Maker

I added a Route Maker tool to facilitate entry of route metadata by simply clicking on a map. It's a bit rough, but it's similar to a custom desktop application I put together a few years ago when I was inputting all of the Travellers Digest routes. Not too fancy, but better than typing.

Eventually I'll get Border Maker added as well, and ideally unify everything into a Metadata Maker or some such.

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Hosting changes

To improve the responsiveness and reliability of the site, I've switched the hosting from DiscountASP.NET to Everleap (same company, different service). In theory, there are now two load-balanced virtual servers hosting the site with 10x the memory, so the site should be more responsive. I made the switch last night and was going to let it bake for a few days, but it was so much better already I flipped the DNS entries this morning while coffee was brewing.

As always, let me know if anything weird is happening or any files are missing due to the migration.

Also, I moved the Third Imperium archive to a new home: ThirdImperiumfanzine.info Ω