{"id":13793,"date":"2012-10-06T00:01:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T07:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=13793"},"modified":"2012-10-08T13:22:59","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T20:22:59","slug":"site-maintenance-server-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/10\/site-maintenance-server-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Site Maintenance \/ Server Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/irrelephant-340x419.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13796\" title=\"irrelephant\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/irrelephant-340x419.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"340\" height=\"419\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m doing a little website maintenance this weekend, moving <a href='http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com' title='Interesting Facts'>Today I Found Out<\/a> to a more powerful server as the traffic to the site has grown beyond my old dedicated server&#8217;s capacity to serve without increased page load times, especially when there are large random surges of traffic *stares accusingly at reddit*. Even when not getting big surges, though, the page load times were gradually ticking up over the last couple months as traffic has increased.<\/p>\n<p>The new dedicated server is about six times as &#8220;powerful&#8221; as the old, so hopefully such slowdowns will be in the past now (bring it on reddit&#8230; seriously, bring it on.\u00a0 I&#8217;m curious to see what the new machine can do). \ud83d\ude09\u00a0 And, of course, this should also improve page load times even during non-peak times as well.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t anticipate any downtime during the switch, but you never know.\u00a0 If you notice any problems after the switch (I&#8217;m also doing some upgrades to the site&#8217;s back end at the same time), let me know <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/contact-us\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 Thanks!<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m doing a little website maintenance this weekend, moving <a href='http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com' title='Interesting Facts'>Today I Found Out<\/a> to a more powerful server as the traffic to the site has grown beyond my old dedicated server&#8217;s capacity to serve without increased page load times, especially when there are large random surges of traffic *stares accusingly at reddit*. Even when not getting big surges, though, the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,3,2781],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-today-i-found-out","category-featured-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13798,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13793\/revisions\/13798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}