January 8th, 2012
Over the past few months our bandwidth usage has skyrocketed. So today we took the first steps in optimizing our bandwidth usage.
For our bloggers there should be no negative changes. However, there will be some cool perks:
+’leaderboard’ type info showing the top blogs on Weblogs.us
+better performance*
+we can reduce our overhead**
*since we can more easily find blogs that are being spammed or are outdated, we can remedy those issues and everyone benefits with less server load and faster response times etc.
**bandwidth is one of our primary costs, and every GB of transfer saved helps minimize expenses… which is very important since we are a volunteer based organization that does not charge for personal hosting!
April 7th, 2011
We just received 16GB more memory for our new 1U server.
The memory for the new server was kindly donated by:
Kanetix.ca: travel insurance Canada
Thanks guys!
More memory specs:
16GB (4 x 4GB)
240-Pin
DDR2
FB-DIMM
ECC Fully Buffered
DDR2 667 (PC2 5300)
4x 4gb 2Rx4 pc2-5300F-555-11
240-Pin DDR2 FB-DIMM ECC Fully Buffered DDR2 667 (PC2 5300)
March 29th, 2011
We’re very excited to have a nice new (to us) 1U server headed out way:
Still deciding whether this machine will become our primary DB server, or serve as a higher-end VM server for us. Either way, in addition to this one, we have one more server in our near future and hopefully we’ll be set for a while after that 
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Processor: Two (2) Intel® Xeon® Quad Core Processor X5460 3.16GHz Harpertown 12M cache 1333MHz FSB
X5460 single CPU benchmarks (so the new server should be roughly twice as fast as these benchmarks…)
RAM: 8GB [Four (4) 2048mb D558CDual In-Line Memory Module, 2G, 667M, 256X72, 8, 240, 2RX8
(to be upgraded to 24GB total)
Power Supply: Two (2) P424D Power Supply, 670W, PMBUS Delta
Storage: 15K SAS drive for OS, SSD for data
Remote access: DRAC5 card (Dell Remote Access Card) installed
The best part: this machine should provide some great additional speed and capability for all our bloggers .
March 26th, 2011
Happy Birthday to mtekk, our resident Linux expert, bane of spammers, and overall cool dude!
Apparently a GPU computing midterm took up most of his actual bday, so here’s hoping that the rest of the weekend is appropriately birthday-licious .
Thanks for all your hard work on Weblogs.us, we appreciate it!!!
March 26th, 2011
Just renewed our weblogs.sc domain registration. Whew, dotster charges an arm and a leg for .sc domains!
Alas, they are one of the only .sc registrars out there 
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February 14th, 2011
Our oldest server is being retired. This server (actually a virtual machine) has been a workhorse over the years but is nowhere near as nice or polished as our new server.
Better performance, better security, faster FTP access, easier maintenance… those are just a few of the benefits to the new server.
Almost everyone is already moved off the old server and upgraded to the new server. However, if your blog is still located on the old server: just let us know and we’ll upgrade you.
This week will likely be the “shutoff” date for the old server, at which point the blog won’t be publicly accessible. However we will still be able to do blog upgrades (from old to new) at anytime. Also, if you’d prefer to just have a backup of your old blog we can give you that too .
For those who move from old to new, here’s the basic process:
+email us (support AT weblogs.us)
+we’ll transfer your database
+we’ll set you up with the latest WordPress version
+you’ll get new FTP access info
+we ask you to manually upload your theme and plugins via FTP (this is to protect against potentially hacked old files getting from the old server to the new server, as some of those old blogs have antiquated versions of WP w/known security vulnerabilities)
PS Just hollar if you have any questions or if there is anything we can help with!
