Expensive affected person readers,
We’re migrating to a brand new host on Saturday. We had been the one shopper of our former host Keith Freedman, who after spoiling us for a few years has determined that having a tiny aspect enterprise is an excessive amount of of a distraction. We’re shifting to a service in Germany (which has very robust authorized safety for press freedoms however will get dinged in worldwide rankings as a result of it’s not so sizzling on authorities disclosure, or what we name FOIA, which isn’t related to our work) with a backup web site in Iceland. We had different standards which these hosts fulfill.
Whereas having a German host might end in a slight lag for US customers in remark posting time (as within the lag between once you submit a remark and when it seems; observe even now readers can have delay of as much as two minutes on account of caching to cut back load on the server), this host has extra reminiscence than our previous host, in order that is probably not a difficulty in any respect, or solely intermittently.
Concerning the cutover, our new host/Wordpress wrangler Dave thinks it’ll take at most three hours and maybe as little as one.. However it’ll additionally take time for the brand new DNS to propagate throughout the Net, which might take so long as an 4 further hours relying on the place you might be.
Readers ought to be capable of learn posts and feedback this complete time. Nevertheless, in case you make feedback on the positioning at its previous location after the switch has began (midday EDT), they are going to be misplaced. So I counsel refraining from commenting from midday until a minimum of 3 PM. And take a replica, because you might need to repost it if it wound up being on the previous web site.
Thanks on your persistence and need us luck!
