Quantnet migrated to new SERVER

[Andy Nguyen]

At some point later today, we will be down for an hour or so to move to another server. The move should take 20-30 minutes but DNS propagation may take a while depends on your internet provider.

I'll try to give some advanced notice prior to taking this down and the IP address of our new server so you can get there sooner.

Watch this place.

 

[Andy Nguyen]

It's been over 12 hours since we migrated to a new server which went unnoticed by most members.

I'm curious to know if you guys feel any changes in the way the website loads now both on the forum and the front page?

It is A LOT faster now from my own testing and I'd like to see confirmation if it's the case.

 

[Tsotne]

Yes seems it takes less time to load the page and switch from Home to Forum and vise. I read your first post and was still waiting for some break while switching.

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Good to hear. Click on some articles on the front page and see how fast it loads.
We moved to a cloud server with much more beefed up specs and ready to expand for future growth.

 

[Tsotne]

Good to hear. Click on some articles on the front page and see how fast it loads.
We moved to a cloud server with much more beefed up specs and ready to expand for future growth.

Yes I checked and it is really faster Andy. Will be interesting to hear the opinions from other members also, but it's very noticeable on my computer.

 

[Connor]

Much faster for me too.

 

[onthesc]

much faster indeed. i like it

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Thanks all.
Looks like the new servers have very noticeable improvements on our user experience which is most important to me.

 

[tigergb]

I randomly visited a few pages and it is faster, i am located in UK.

 

[euroazn]

Yes, it's noticeably faster. Thanks Andy

 

[Lyosha]

... something happened?!?

 

[Tsotne]

... something happened?!?

QN changed the server making navigation faster. Have you read the title of the thread?

 

[Andy Nguyen]

... something happened?!?

Seamlessly server migration. I like that

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Apparently, I can further improve the loading time.

The front page is now loaded in 1.041 seconds and forum in 1.196 seconds

 

[euroazn]

How long does it take for me to obtain a job though? :p

 

[ExSan]

can you tell us a litle bit about the new hardware/server
yes I noticed, its faster

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Sure Rob
I'll make a detailed post down the road but here is the quick list.
We move to a cloud server on Rackspace running latest version of Ubuntu. We use separate servers for web and SQL.
The biggest change we made is to replace Apache with nginx. With a very aggressive caching scheme and using enterprise level CDN service, it shows. Compared to the previous server we used for the past few years, it's like moving to a posh mansion from a cramped railroad studio.
And it helps that Quantnet has very talented server admin people and developers working with a modern platform.

 

[euroazn]

Hey Andy, is it just me or do you keep changing up the smiley faces?

 

[Andy Nguyen]

No, it's me. The set of smilies got refreshed when we updated our platform a few days ago.

 

[Peter-Jan]

It's a great move. RackSpace is top notch.

In terms of speed, it's fast. All I can think of to make it even faster is checking the caching settings of the site.

For WP there are plugins for that, for XF no idea. Most likely you can just wait, as Kier has stated he wants XF 1.1 to be ready for the big boards. That's mostly about search result speed, but surely caching would be optimized too for that release.