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Re: I think we found our limit ..

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Originally Posted by Mike Martus
As Brandon has said we are taking steps to handle the extra load for now and the near future. The timing is not great but we have been working on the upgrade for awhile and are solving several roadblocks along the way.

As Brandon has said, he is the MAIN man I am only an ad visor or sorts not the expert by any means. I have diverted his energy as of late by making the site self sufficient in terms of funding. This energy could have been spent making improvements. I am looking toward the future and it was a MUST make it now activity.

We (Brandon) will work his usual magic in the coming rush of traffic and if all plans fall into place we will be faster and stronger to carry the load the Community of FIRST is in need of.

Thank you for your continued support. We will do our best!

As far as offers to have free or reduced rates on another systems..... there is much more to the site than just moving. Much of the site is custom written and changing locations is not a easy or speedy task. It is also very risky this close to the FIRST crunch.

Again, a special thank you to the Community of FIRST.
Mike,

Seeing that it is the time of the year where CD gets the most hits wouldn't be the best time to do a move, I know that the whole moving isn't as easy as transferring files, its also about reconfiguring and all that great stuff. That is where/why I just crawled CD to see how much it really needs and what my servers need to run the site. Could be why my ip is listed as #2...

MY offer was a little late in the year ( early in the season). But it was just an idea which I thought of that would help with the costs to your team and hardware issues. Each year FIRST grows and being that Chiefdelphi is one of the most used websites it will need to grow to allow for all the new users to get their fix of FIRST.

-Mike
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