[UPDATE] Site been better everyone?

[Kelly Drown]

It's been about a week or so now, and DNS issues are starting to clear up for most folks. I think mobile devices are still experiencing some resolution issues due to problems from the carrier but that's beyond our control.

Other than that, I'm not seeing any more e-mail issues, there have been zero database timeouts (the old server had a lot of those daily) and the site seems to be fairly snappy on this new server. Everything seems to be running great.

Any outstanding issues? Google Analytics shows we're not holding steady with traffic. We're running about 7,000 unique visitors per day. That's a lot of people. We've done 1.43 million page views (whole pages served) so far this month, and a total of 57,359 unique visitors to the site for January as of yesterday. That is excluding RSS feeds and mobile users for the moment.

I'll probably add mobile users into the stats here before long, which will probably add quite a bit. We take a lot of mobile hits to the site now that we're "mobile-friendly". There is a new update for the software that will increase "mobile friendliness" so that's coming before long and should help as well.

All in all I'm pretty happy with the new server even if it is a bit more expensive.

-Kelly

 

[bulbboy]

It's been running great

Thanks for all the hard work!

 

[been]

great for me! Thanks!

 

[Sanjuro82]

I for one have definitely noticed the improvements. The site is way faster over all and I not getting any more of those annoying timeouts.

 

[HMFIC]

Working perfect for me. Not even a hiccup.

THANKS for all of your hard work and commitment to this site Kelly!

 

[Blue Baby]

Running smooth. Thank you for all you do!

 

[sesh]

I appreciate all the work you do on this site, thank you!

 

[kinggabby]

So far so good.

 

[Biggsly]

I like it.

 

[Hump66]

I had a couple issues trying to look at the classifieds yesterday, but I'd bet it's this stupid .gov computer and not the site. No issues from home. Thanks for all your hard work on keeping this place up and running!