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FYI
The backpackinglight.com website will be undergoing server maintenance on Friday August 7 from 9am to Noon US MDT. For a small (several minute) window during this period, the site will be inaccessible and you may see a “maintenance mode” message.
Update: the bulk of the update is done, we’ll continue with some testing for the next few hours and I’ll report back here when things are back to normal. In the meantime, I don’t expect anymore downtime.
This morning’s update involved moving the backpackinglight.com website to our new server. This move went smoothly with no hiccups and involved about 45 minutes of downtime between 10:00 am and 10:45 am US MDT.
Most users will notice dramatic improvements in site speed, especially in the forums (including posting new topics or replies). In most of our benchmark tests this morning, most pages are loading twice as fast or faster. Forum posting time is now averaging one-third of what it was before the move.
This will lay a good foundation for building the new site, which will come with additional speed improvements as well as we rewrite our codebase.
Good news. Though I would like to say that I’ve never experienced these long page loading times I keep hearing about and seem to be the main focus of upgrading. And I’m on this site daily and have been for 15+ years.
Not sure if it’s just a weird blip, but within the last few minutes posting was again slowed to crawling levels, and I got a bad gateway message, after a lengthy period of nothing after the click, just clicking on recent forum topics.
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