Guild of Writers

That was quick. I gather everything went well?
Have you implemented a Captcha or a Turing test?

The forums performance is much better now.

I updated phpBB to the latest 3.0.6 and enabled the reCaptcha plugin, which required me to do some hacking to the theme to make it 3.0.6 complaint (so keep an eye out for theme issues!) I'm going to try reCaptcha for awhile and see how that does. If that fails, I will enable the Question & Answer plugin, which ought to fix us up.

Yes... This server is quite nice. It's located in Atlanta, Georgia (approximately 150 miles from my home base and has some very impressive specs). We're sharing with some other folks, but they shouldn't bother us. CPU time is doled out fairly by OpenVZ. We have 1.5GB of dedicated RAM, 1.2TB of monthly transfer, and 80GB of storage. I might actually be open to expanding some Guild services now.

Sounds great, and a huge thanks for your efforts

One advantage of being on this (European) side of the pond was that I slept through the downtime.

Nice work sounds and good looks good.

So far (apart from a DNS refresh) no problems. The site comes up much faster than before. Good work, Adam!

I have seen no problem so far. We'll see if the spam problem is solved.

Congratulations and thanks for a job well done, Adam.
I have seen and done lots of migrations and this is as smooth as it gets.

One small bug i noticed : the "view active topics" seems broken when you are not logged in. It did not update since two days at least.

EDIT: small update: after i posted this it updated but only the "planned Downtime" and "libPlasma SVN to be down for a short (?) time " seems to be monitored. the other topics are not mentioned eventhough they received new posts.

This is probably the expected behavior for users not logged in. The "read" status is stored per-user and is generally useless for guests, so I'm going to have to label this as a "non-issue."

I've been having issues with "connection to the server has been reset" errors in firefox when trying to connect to the forums, or the wiki, randomly. Not constant, but fairly regularly.

It started around the time of the upgrade/move. Well, it was at least after the "planned" downtime. The last instance of the issue was last night/this morning (around 1:00am GMT+8 or so)

Any idea what might be causing this?

At that time, our DNS provider was dealing with a DDoS attack, though I doubt that is a culprit. I'm not really sure what could be causing it. Can you report back if you see this again?