Expect slowness and downtime over the next few days

[Elad]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=announcement&id=33

We are preparing DU for a major hardware upgrade to take place this week. Starting today (Sunday Jan. 11) and continuing up until the upgrade is complete, DU may experience periods of reduced performance and downtime while I prepare everything and transfer data back and forth.

Please be patient while we do this, I promise it will be worth it once the upgrade is complete, and we apologize for any inconvenience.

Thanks,

[Military Brat]

1. Thanks, Elad. I know that DU keeps its promises ...

... unlike other administrations we know :)

[JohnLocke]

6. Heh-heh-heh.

Well put.

[librechik]

2. Thanks, E! You guys are doing a great job!

:loveya:

[Cleita]

3. Thanks for the explanation.

I was worried you guys were being hacked. Best of everything and thanks for the upgrades. :yourock:

[havocmom]

4. what a relief. Last night DU just wans't coming up a lot and it worried

some of us. We know what a great weapon the DU is in the battle to restore America to the people. When things don't click along, some of us in remote locations worry about the site and you wonderful folks who tned to it.

For all you do: many thanks and history will mention you kindly as Patriots of the truest sort.

[RebelOne]

5. OK, we'll live through it.

[KoKo]

7. Okay......if you say so......will it help us "Dial-Ups?" N/T

:kick:

[Robbien]

8. Wow is this place speedy for my poor overworked dialup!

Just clicked on a little after l0p cst and DU is zooming along. I saw the notice that the new database server is up and working. It sure does make a difference tonight.

[Lugnut]

9. Whew!

I know I need more RAM in this voodoo box and I thought it was my computer. Great work! This place is really speedy now for this dial-up member. :toast:

[RandomUser]

10. Thanks!

Thanks for giving us the heads up, and for putting in the time and effort that you guys do into this site.

:yourock:

[TahitiNut]

11. The improvement in database access performance is awesome.

It's really obvious. Nice work!

[JohnLocke]

12. Here, Here!

[LatteLib]

13. Thank you for all your time, efforts and commitment

All of you administrators and folks that operate DU are true Patriots.
I salute you and will continue to donate.
:dem:

[SpiralHawk]

14. Running much faster and smoother on my pokey dial-up

connection, way out here in the boonies on the far edge of the county in northern NM.

A noticable difference.

Thanks so much, and keep up the great work. - SH