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HJ2 has shared physical space with big sister HJ1 for it's whole life. It's ready for a new home. We will be moving HJ2 off the current machine is shares with HJ1 and migrating it to the brand new machine we just purchased for it. Not only is this machine more robust than our current one it won't have to share resources with HJ1.

On the morning of April the 28th we will shutdown this instance HJ2 completely and create a mirror version of the database on the brand new physical server. This process can take several hours to upload the large databases we use. We will re-point the domain to the new IP address/instance during that time. The new instance will be identical to the old and you won't be able to tell any difference.

Here is the catch. For most users you will be re-pointed to the new instance in about an hour. You may see a message that we are still updating, but the page will tell you if you are still viewing the old instance or are on the new one. Some internet providers use lazy DNS systems and may take several days for you to see the new instance. During that time you will not have access to the site via that ISP. Some users may even need to manually flush DNS records (instructions will be provided) to force an update.

So plan ahead for the end of April folks.


(For you fellow 90s kid our physical server is called Hexadecimal. The new one is called Scuzzy. Ironically it's our first server which will not contain a scuzzy drive. ;) )