Worldwide acceleration (& security)

[Iconic Ride]

Back off topic (momentarily)...

I was actually able to sign off normally last night. And I was obviously able to sign back in just now. It remains to be seen (until I try it) whether or not I will be able to sign off when finished today. Fingers crossed. Drum roll please...

"...clever bits are also being served from more local, err, locations to you.."

It is now patently obvious that the CDN has taken over my computer to turn it into a "local" server, and it is now a part time "Bot." I can see the draw, in that usurping members' computers is a relatively inexpensive way to increase bandwidth, one might almost say "a cheap trick." That said, the convenience of single click ["pre signed in"] access to my favorite ( note, No "u"! ) forum more than compensates for this craven power play.

May all my local "clients," whoever you are, enjoy the additional speed provided by my commandeered smokin' laptop.

[Günter]

@John, don't know it it will work for you on W7 (I'm still an old bastard going with my loved XP) ..so hows that:

-go to your personal windows folder (documents & settings ) ..go there to cookies, to find those all visible (even the hidden blue printed ones) use in the top bar under 'options' the 'folders option' get on that, and choose 'view' -make an hook in all the relevant field ..like 'show all documents/folters' 'hide/show system folders' ..and allways note the 'hide known endings' ..as sometimes unwanted contend is misinterpreted by hidden endings .

You can erase most of the cookies manually, or with your anti-virus software.

@Bibs: seems that I was identified as "infected" too .. have got an *captcha*identity-note, wile surfing from your *Esprit-SE trade* on ebay to the *lotusforsale.com* site .. with a note 'this side is part of a security program' ..you are infected ..blablaa 'you can enter manually or ask the site administrator'

[Bibs]

That's a different system I'm using on lotusforsale.com to try to stop the spam on there - http://www.cloudflare.com.

[Bibs]

Apologies to anyone who's struggled to access TLF over the last 24 hours. This is due to a DNS change made to hand over some of the traffic to a new Google service which estimates speed increases of 83%, so it's all good

If anyone is having problems post 1pm today, please email info@thelotusforums.com

[gt111]

^{Does anyone else have over-sized emoticons?}

Just bragging really

[ramjet]

Well it's after 1pm here. I have a problem.

I don't suppose you would happen to know the lotto numbers for this Saturday here in Oz?

[Bibs]

They're all fairly low, below 50 certainly...

[Bibs]

Any better/worse for anyone?

[gt111]

Mine is still all to cock on IE9, ok on ipad

[Bibs]

This is IE9 for me which doesn't help

[Bibs]

PS Turned this off, was causing too many problems again.

[Bibs]

In case it all goes wrong in a couple of days...

We are emailing to inform you of a planned upgrade to our network infrastructure. The upgrade is scheduled to take place on Thursday 11th October 2012 between the hours of 0001 and 0400 BST.

The work will enable IPv6 on our core routing infrastructure, this work should not have any impact on your solution but we are informing you to keep you upto date with the advancements we are performing on our network. This work is part of our IPv6 roll out plan which will enable us to provide IPv6 capability to our clients. At this stage the roll out is expected to be completed by the 22nd of October and we will be providing more details closer to this date on how you can make use of this service. If you are interested please don't hesitate to contact your account manager.

[Bibs]

Speaking of upgrading, TLF has just signed a new 2 year server deal wit our hosts, UKFast. Since the server we're on is 5 years old, we are getting a brand new Dell Hex Core machine with plenty of RAM and more importantly, SSD drives which should further speed up the websites  

[Bibs]

 

It's very exciting. Will probably do the migration tomorrow over lunch

 

[Bibs]

This is scheduled for 2pm today.

[Bibs]

This has been delayed as I'm having to catch up with Lotus re the parts sale which I think will take all afternoon.

In case you wondered what TLF's new home will look like...

[Al]

Gosh 

[Bibs]

There's not a lot to is it there!

The actual machine costs about £1,000 to buy but we pay about £10k over 2 years of the contract which included the hosting (on the UK's quickest backbone network), maintenance, backups and (fantastic and much needed) 24/7 support via an 0800 number. 

[Bibs]

PS Found some time, going to do the transfer now

Wish me luck. Should be pretty painless but the instructions are a bit TLDR so just ticking boxes and hoping 

[Kimbers]

This has been delayed as I'm having to catch up with Lotus re the parts sale which I think will take all afternoon.

In case you wondered what TLF's new home will look like...

How will you fit in there?????

[Bibs]

Sorry, didn't quite work perfectly for all sites. I've been sat watching progress bars and fiddling for 4 hours so I'm leaving for the pub and will look at this again tomorrow

[Bibs]

Still working on this, nearly there! Pleasantly surprised to see the new server actually has a 12 core processor!! 

[Bibs]

Server migration complete

7 days of testing, 6 trial migrations and I'm very pleased with the result! You should notice the site is much, much faster 

[Bibs]

I'm very impressed! 

Just moving the files back onto the CDN now

[Bibs]

Just to give you an indication of the efficiency we're now seeing thanks to a combination of a new server and better software, here's a before and after