Downtime scheduled for this Saturday, June 14th

[Elad]

Democratic Underground will be unavailable for several hours starting around 9pm EDT Saturday evening. We are upgrading to a brand new database server that is much more powerful than our current database server in order to prepare for the increased traffic we expect for the general election, as well as the increased traffic we've already seen this primary season.

Unfortunately, we will have to shutdown the site in order to transfer all the data over to the new server. We expect that this process could take anywhere from 4 - 8 hours to complete, but it could potentially take less or more time.

Thank you for your patience while we do this work. The new server will mean increased speed and performance for everyone, as well as less time spent at level 1 and above.

[Cha]

1. Thanks for the new powerful upgrade,

elad! :toast:

[WeDidIt]

2. EXCELLENT TIMING!

and let me be the first to extend my condolences to those people who spend their Saturday nights posting on DU.

:(

[QueenOfCalifornia]

3. How will

I live? I hope we can all handle the horror of no DU on a Saturday night.

That's when all the funny-bunnies come out of the woodwork :D

[Renew Deal]

5. Put it back in your pants big boy.

:P

[Barack_America]

11. Saturday nights are 2-for-1 pizza nights.

It's when the trolls really come out to play.

[Renew Deal]

4. How much data is DU?

You can probably save a lot of space by deleting GDP outright. :D

[IDemo]

15. One brazillion pizzaflops

[cliffordu]

22. Rofl!!

:rofl:

[CreekDog]

6. this is because of the copycat threads in the lounge isn't it?

:rofl:

[SoCalDem]

18. YES!! Now aren't you ashamed of yourself?

:rofl:

[Barack_America]

7. Well great. Now what are we supposed to do on a Saturday night?

;)

[PBS Poll-435]

8. Tech question....

Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron-based?

[Max_powers94]

9. WE all need some downtime.

[TexasObserver]

10. Let's run it up the flag pole and see who salutes it.

Saturday, June 14th is Flag Day.

I'll use the downtime telling strangers about Betsy Ross.

[Jersey Devil]

12. Do you have enough Nooblin for the transfer?

I ran out of Nooblin once at my server and damn, it was a bitch getting the Finnegan Pin to work right after that.

[AtomicKitten]

13. Woo-hoo! Twice the snark in half the time!!!

:toast:

[cbayer]

14. My husband wants me to give you a big THANK YOU!!!!!

Now we are going to have to talk or something.

[Symarip]

16. Cool

I'll be playing the High Desert Ska Festival in Grand Junction, CO. See? It's a sign that this was supposed to happen.

[CK_John]

17. Would it help if we released all our ignore lists? n/t

[psychmommy]

19. nooooooooooo

what i am i gonna on saturday night without du. thank you admin's for keeping this site ship shape for us all.

[rug]

20. That's ok. I'll just be vacuuming my flags anyway.

[pleah]

21. The 14th is my birthday!

Thanks for the present! :party:

[Triana]

23. Wondering how big the DU mb database is...

...(how many TB?) and if it's MySQL, PostGres, Oracle - something else? (I ain't even mentioning mickeysnot SQL). I'm guessing MySQL since it's open source.

I'll just keep wondering though. :)

Thanks guys, for all you do for us - I hope your hair grew back after the last DU fund drive. ;)

[Elad]

24. kick n/t

[Lucinda]

25. ...

[Elad]

26. kick n/t

[madrchsod]

27. oh no! what am i going to do????

i guess i`ll watch season three disk one of "weeds"

[SwampG8r]

29. season 3 is out?woohoo

[WillyT]

28. KillJoy !!!

:evilgrin:

:hi: