Moving Day

cheeseplus

We're all moved! A huge amount of thanks to Vito for hosting us all these years.

Tonight at around 10pm CST the site will come down while we move to new servers.

For many years, practically time immemorial in internet years, the site has lived on hosts provided by our good friend Vito. After last year's relaunch though, it was clear that we would need to move out as we were terrible neighbors. We would get slammed with traffic by Valve or Kotaku, slowing any other co-hosted services down along with us.

If everything goes perfectly then this will be rather transparent - at least once the end-user's DNS is updated.

(For those curious, we are moving our hosting to Linode. They are a great VPS hosting service that gives you a ridiculous amount of configuration options. If you're a Linux nerd then I highly recommend checking them out.)

 

Makkon

Oh, I was wondering what that was.
I like the new view! Is that a boat in the driveway?

Vito

I took over hosting in 2004, when GameSpy's forums server imploded, wiping out the first few years of Polycount's history.

In 2004, Twitter, Google Maps, Reddit, CG Hub and the Dominance War hadn't happened yet. The new digs are the next step after this post in 2010: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1227755&postcount=34

Good luck in your new home!

ヽ(´ー｀)ﾉ

MadnessImport

The loading times for the site were massively decreased
GREAT CHOICE!!!

cheeseplus

@MadnessImport that's great to hear. Linode's performance is one of the reasons we like them so much. We've also used them for minecraft and tf2 servers with good results. The improvements could also be a location related, we moved the servers from an east coast datacenter to a dallas one.

makecg

It's that time of the year everyones moving... :P I will check out Linode for my own hosting thanks !

fearian

Fucking hell, 7k a year?!

cheeseplus

@fearian that was way back in the day when you had to own your own hardware and pay for colocation. It's significantly cheaper now with VPS services like Linode or Slicehost.