{"id":44,"date":"2011-05-12T21:17:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T21:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/?p=44"},"modified":"2011-05-12T21:17:40","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T21:17:40","slug":"sorry-about-the-slow-site-but-improvements-are-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/2011\/05\/12\/sorry-about-the-slow-site-but-improvements-are-on-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorry about the slow site, but improvements are on the way!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it only feels like yesterday when I bought a new web server to cope with all the new <strong>Scrabble Helper <\/strong>users.<\/p>\n<p>In fact it was 3 months ago, and yet we&#8217;re still getting new users every day.\u00a0 I guess you&#8217;re all telling your friends!\u00a0 But it does mean the site grinds to a halt during the most popular hours.<\/p>\n<p>So to fix this I&#8217;ve bought an even bigger server.\u00a0 It&#8217;s got 4 times as much memory and at least 4 times as much processing power.\u00a0 The change should make everything go much smoother and cope with everyone who joins &#8211; well, at least for another few months \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m dedicated to making sure everyone who wants to use <strong>Scrabble Helper <\/strong>can do so, and so as fast as you can recruit new users I&#8217;ll throw more hardware at the site to make everyone happy!<\/p>\n<p>The change is happening tomorrow (<strong>Fri 13 May <\/strong>&#8211; I&#8217;m glad I&#8217;m not superstitious!) and will take about 2 hours.\u00a0 So the site will be unavailable while that happens.<\/p>\n<p>We start the move at 1pm UK time (that&#8217;s 12 noon UTC, 5am Pacific Daylight Time, 8am Eastern Daylight Time).<\/p>\n<p>See you on the new server \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it only feels like yesterday when I bought a new web server to cope with all the new Scrabble Helper users. In fact it was 3 months ago, and yet we&#8217;re still getting new users every day.\u00a0 I guess &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/2011\/05\/12\/sorry-about-the-slow-site-but-improvements-are-on-the-way\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}