Was that the smoothest migration we've done?

It helped having the new server available to play with for a few days before switching over.

I am no expert on those things, but given that hunger for resources wouldn't it be cheaper in the long run to buy and operate one's own server?

I'm not sure of the current price of rack servers, but my impression is that co-location (renting rack-space at hosting facilities) in general is going out of fashion these days, because it's simply easier, cheaper, and less hassle for hosts to provide virtual servers, and similarly users don't have to worry about upgrading, hardware failure, and so on.
(And that's not even getting into all the issues surrounding visiting the data centres to install hardware.)

At the moment, we are actually on the lowest Linode 512 plan, and it seems to be coping absolutely fine.

The place is not exactly at its busiest presently - and being on a crappy 3G connection it's hard to tell - but it's certainly not worse than before the move, and server load is currently considered 'idle', so whilst it's still early days, I don't think we have anything to worry about.

I think it's quicker if anything this new host.

Good. :)

Didn't want to bias any opinions by saying it, but yes - it certainly was whilst setting things up - I was on broadband loading both side-by-side and this one was noticably quicker.

Some of that is simply having it London/UK based, rather than Netherlands - we gain ~10ms just from it being closer.

Oh yeah, and we're using a different web server - nginx instead of Apache httpd - not sure how much difference that makes generally, but it's more lightweight and copes with load better.

It does seem nice and nippy so far doesn't it! :-)

Yes.

 

*ZOOM*

Do I spy another van race coming on?

My dad's van has got more junk in it than your dad's van

My dad's van has more mis-matched body panels than your dad's van.

My dad doesn't bother replacing them and drives too slow for any collisions to cause dents anyway.

Oh, I meant operating one's own server at home. I used to be an a huge German board (about 50k users) whose owner/programmer/admin operates his own server from his living room :)

And what sort of internet connection did he have?

What Ant said - unless he had a special internet connection, he almost certainly wouldn't be getting connection speeds like this:



It'd be nice if we had home connections that responded like that... maybe in Germany they do... but generally they're much slower and less reliable.

Haha, them replies are quicker than me pinging another pc on my network over WiFi!

No idea, probably fast DSL since he lives in Berlin...
I was on that board for 6 years and usually it was no slower than this one.
Admittedly, maybe once a year the board was gone for a few hours or even a day when hardware had to be replaced :D

It would've been an extremely fast line to handle that many users and no doubt very expensive!!

Here they offer fiber connections now (200Mbps down, 10Mbps up guaranteed) for about 50€/month. They also offer 1Gbps connections (both up and down) for 250€/month, but who can afford that... ;P

:O I'd definitely take the €50/month option.