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Today we purchased a new package with our current hosting provider and we are moving to a new server that will be running on CentOS7 64 bit operating system. We will be doing some optimising / upgrading software and basically getting things running as best and as fast as we possibly can. Moving to this new setup will bring us better performance and greater scope for optimising. Recently we have updated our database to run on MariaDB, we have also moved all the tables for the database to InnoDB, we are also utilising cloudfare for static content. What does this mean? What it effectively means is we will need to update our nameserver to the new IP address, it means we will experience a little bit of downtime whilst everything is migrated and DNS propagation occurs (usually 24/48hrs) - some won't experience any downtime, others may find access is lost for a period. This a necessary step in getting the site performing to the best of it's ability and making things as fast as possible for all our members and staff. I'm sure you'll all survive without access but will enjoy the benefits it brings. When we do migrate we'll take the site offline and once it has migrated it will remain offline for a few hours until we tweak things and get the best response times we can possibly achieve. We thank you in advance for the understanding, we'll be looking to start this process tomorrow/Saturday and we'll update you all in due course.

Finishing Friday with a bit of Bloodborne. Such a good game.