Pretty smooth, all considering...

This was probably our biggest upgrade that we have tackled at tournamentgames.com. First off, we moved our main servers to a local hosting facility, which boasts a very big fibre optic connection to the internet, at any point in time, they only ulilize around less that 1 percent or so of the available bandwidth, so we have effectively eraticated any bandwidth bottlenecks. Along with that, we migrated the site over to new servers. These servers, are probably 4 times faster than what we had before. Along with that, we are using the latest Operating systems on the servers, and the latest in database software.

Now, we did have to take the site down a while this morning to do some reindexing on the database, cause we found that it just was not as responsive as it should be. So after a couple hours waiting for that to complete, we brought everything back up. All seems ok now. There are still a few loose ends that we will need to give attention to, but all in all, it was a smooth upgrade/migration especially considering the magnitude of the changes.

Honestly, I have to give a lot of credit to Rodger. I handily delegated most of the responsibilities to him, without cutting him any slack, and he graciously followed through on everything. Good Job Rodger.

So, our next big step is getting everyone where they are overjoyed to use the v10 console. We have had a few complaints, which is expected. We get that every time we change something. I guess, people by nature, do not like change. But the funny part is, most all changes we make are conglomerated from suggestions that we get over time. Maybe it is just our interpretations of what you guys want. We try real hard to make it like you want, really.

Keep the suggestions coming, but please, give us specifics. We really dont know what to do if we are told, "I dont like it", or "It's hard to use", etc... Tell us exactly what you dont like, or particularly what is "hard to read", etc. I bet we fix it most of the time, before the next day, seriously. (Excluding ideas that would not benefit the majority). And we have to take the responsibility of deciding that, since we have a good idea of what everyone wants, thanks to the feedback we receive.

Anyway, thank you for your patience through this Major site update!

eric