Ricochet Migrating to New Servers
Busy System Admin ·
May 18, 2011 at 2:15am
Esteemed members and readers of Ricochet,
I'm happy to announce we've been working on much-needed changes to our infrastructure at Ricochet, and we hope to migrate to new servers in the next week or two.
There may be some temporary disruptions in the service, but please be patient; these are typical during such a big transition.
After the transition, you should experience:
- A faster site overall
- Much faster posting times (less than 10 seconds to be sure; but in our tests, as little as 2 seconds). Currently it takes more than 30 seconds just to post a comment, due to complex caching issues in the system.
- Fewer (hopefully zero) "transaction failed" errors. I know I'm not the only one who has been seeing these recently.
- More stability; and other improvements.
Also, once we finish this transition, we should be able to focus more on adding new features to the site and improving it in other ways. The problems listed above have been taking up a lot of our time and we are eager to put them behind us.
Thank you as always for being members and readers of Ricochet!
(Graphic courtesy of EJHill)
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Feb '10
Re: Ricochet Migrating to New Servers
By the way, I never liked the fact that Republicans got stuck with red and Democrats with blue. Remember, Red is the color of communism, of revolution, of blood. It should suit liberals a lot better than conservatives.
Before the 2000 election, I seem to recall the colors were sometimes assigned the other way around in electoral maps. There was no fixed convention about which party was which color. If anything, blue was originally assigned to the Republicans and red to the Democrats.
The networks foisted the current color association on us in the 2000 elections. And in the dragged-out challenge of that election, the color got drilled into our heads by force of pure repetition until it became the established convention.
Edited on May 18, 2011 at 6:51pmMay '10
Re: Ricochet Migrating to New Servers
Busy System Admin: in other words, the networks are foisting cross-dressing.
May '10
Re: Ricochet Migrating to New Servers
Shouldn't the elephant be facing right?