Over the last two weeks the down times of Swyx Forum have increased as you might have noticed. Unfortunately it always takes some time to get it up and running again as I do not have direct remote access to the machine to restart the webserver by my own but instead need to ask my hoster to do so.
The reason for these downtimes is, that the web framework Swyx Forum is using (DotNetNuke) is somewhat unstable in virtual environments, which is in fact a problem of asp.net, the web layer of Windows itself. After updating to the new forum version the downtimes have increased dramatically. Obviously this version touches unstable functions of DotNetNuke / asp.net more often than the old one.
But, good new is, HELP IS ON THE WAY !
Swyx Forum will definately move to it's own server machine which brings two major advantages:
- more stable environment
- direct remote access for me and Morten (to be able to react faster on any kind of problem)
Further advantages will be of course
- higher performance
- more webspace (we might enable the attachment feature in the forums, but this is not decided yet)
I wanted to surprise all of you already last week, but the supplier of the server hardware has some devlivery problems and the machine is still physically on it's way to the data center.
Once it is there I will start immediately to move Swyx Forum to it's new home. So please, accept my applogies for all the down times over the last days/weeks, and rest assured that Swyx Forum will become faster and more reliable soon !