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Server Status -- All Good!

We're all good on the server side of things here. If you want more
technical information, read on:

 When we moved to a new set of servers, we wanted to reduce the amount
of memory available on each server. Rather than have 1 server with a
gig of memory, we moved to a set of servers with 256mb each. Trouble
was, that wasn't enough.

 We needed more than 256 and try as we might --- couldn't make it fit.
So the memory got taken up, moved to "swap" and then that got taken
up. No good came of this and the site slowed from a crawl to a stop.
We increased the memory on the application/web server to 512 and all
has been good for a while.

 Probably too much information, but there you go! Back to stable and
ready for the long haul.

Trouble with Servers

We've had a bit of trouble tonight with our new server setup.
Unfortunately, some requests seem to be taking forever, and its just
slowing down the site completely.

 We've provisioned some more horsepower (memory and servers), but
they'll take some time to come online.

 Right now it's 11:15 PM on Tuesday, September 15th. We've been having
trouble for about 45 minutes, and it may take another hour to two to
settle down. I don't like problems like this and we're sorry.

Server Migration

We Eatt is moving to a new set of servers -- we've been testing this
out over the last two weeks and are prepared.

 This should happen in the next few hours -- you'll be shown a
migration page and can view both this blog and our
http://status.weeatt.com, which will contain the minute by minute
updates.

 We'll only be moving the database during the migration, so it
shouldn't take longer than 10-15 minutes to backup, restore, and then
run our checks to make sure we didn't make a Monday mistake.