We have finally completed a desperately needed upgrade of our servers. We had one lowly little AMD 1200 with 954+meg of ram running three games, the profile site and all of the databases. Everyone probably noticed that things bogged down alot. Especially when two of the games were full with 10 players each.
We have just installed an AMD 2100 with 512 meg of ram for the database server. This server only has one job. It will be running the mysql databases used by all of our games, the forums and aatrade/profile website. The AMD 1200 with 954+meg of ram will just be for running the games and website php/html programs. Everything is so much faster and smoother now.
We have also finished moving all code from the old
http://www.aatraders.com web server to the servers listed above. This should speed up even the forums. If you notice that trying to read the newest posts in the forums isn't working right then you need to log off the forums and log back in again. This will update the cookies in your browser and things will start working again.
We hope everyone enjoys the changes.
We have also added a link to our IRC channel in the command bar on the main/profile website. So stop on by and maybe we will rouse out of our slumber and talk.