Today we are moving to a much more powerful and robust setup to handle the traffic MMO Guildsites is beginning to receive.

A notice of this has been placed on every guild site. The important part for guild members is to know that as long as they see the notice on their site they are connected to the old site and data entered into their site from now until they are on the new site and the notice disappears will not be transferred.

This is due to how the move process is handled, which I'll attempt to explain. We currently have two webservers online, the old one and the new one. The database has been transferred to the new one already. We have now made a change to the DNS entry for the www.mmoguildsites.com domain name and the www.mmoguildsites.net domain name; this DNS change takes up to 24 hours to propagate through the internet; so some users will be seeing the new site while others may still see the old one. The database will remain current with the new webserver, so users who are slower to propagate will see the old site, which is connected to the old database.

Long story short, until you see the notice message disappear from your guild site do not write long forum posts as they will not be transferred =)

We are moving to a much more complex setup on the new webserver with fancy load balancers managing clusters of web servers and other goodies. Because of this there is the risk of some downtime if some configurations between the old and the new clash.