I have not been ignoring this topic, but we do have a great team that's more than capable of handling any problem. Thanks to devioustrap, and to Kat for all their hard work. Especially devioustrap that worked tirelessly, and without sleep for a couple of days.
Where have I been? Friday we had new carpet installed in our house. If you've even done that, you know it's almost as much work as moving. Saturday I had to leave at 4:30am for a pheasant hunting trip, and got home last night. I was checking in on my phone and chatted with devioustrap some on Friday night, so I was fully aware of what happened, and why. I debated canceling the trip, but I had my phone to keep in contact, and I was checking in as I was able.
Ironically, one of the primary reasons for this move was to provide the redundancy to prevent data loss like this from occurring. There was no one error or action that caused it, but a culmination of them. Murphy was hard at work. It bothers no one more than me to know that we lost a day of data, but I'm thankful it was not worse. Since the move has now occured, we have the safeguards in place that will prevent it from ever happening again. We'll be glad to discuss them if you have any questions.
There will still be a few issues as we settle into our new home. Perhaps the most visible at the moment is email notifications failing for some. Many email services use
SPF records to reduce spam. Others, such as Yahoo have special requirements, like
DomainKeys. These records sometimes take a little while to update. Also, email spam filters notice a large spike in emails from an IP, and it may raise a red flag with them, causing emails to be sandboxed until they're verified. There are other small issues that have be dealt with. It just takes a few days after moving servers to get all the email flowing properly.
I am installing the Sphinx search daemon later this morning that will help a lot with posts and replies hanging. These hangs are caused by tables locking as the default forum search engine slows on an intensive search. We'll also be updating MySQL to version 5.1 later this week. It's the first version that offers true multi-core support, and should help with performance. We'll need to do some other tweaking to get our configuration operating most efficiently on this new hardware. Thanks again for all your patience and understanding. Your response and reactions have been incredible.