In the near future I am going to be moving NSC.
Currently every time you do something on NSC (funky caching and CDN stuff aside), you're ultimately communicating with a data centre in Dallas, Texas. We've been there for a few years and it's broadly been a positive experience. When NSC hits 5,000+ concurrent users on transfer deadline days and the like, the site keeps ticking along.
However, there have been a few small issues recently, some of which are ongoing, which have led me to search for an alternative. I've long wanted to bring NSC 'home' and give the business to a UK host, and I've found one that I believe will be good for us. All communications have been swift, professional and friendly, and the people in question already host a number of large football forums.
I don't have specific timelines yet, but I would expect the move to happen over the next couple of weeks or so. This will unquestionably involve some downtime. I will try to give notice of this and keep it to a minimum, but there may be occasions where NSC disappears with little warning.
We are moving to a dedicated server which has been built to a specification designed to cope with NSC's peak usage demands. There is however a small chance that the server isn't powerful enough. If this is the case, a second migration will happen to a more powerful server.
Currently every time you do something on NSC (funky caching and CDN stuff aside), you're ultimately communicating with a data centre in Dallas, Texas. We've been there for a few years and it's broadly been a positive experience. When NSC hits 5,000+ concurrent users on transfer deadline days and the like, the site keeps ticking along.
However, there have been a few small issues recently, some of which are ongoing, which have led me to search for an alternative. I've long wanted to bring NSC 'home' and give the business to a UK host, and I've found one that I believe will be good for us. All communications have been swift, professional and friendly, and the people in question already host a number of large football forums.
I don't have specific timelines yet, but I would expect the move to happen over the next couple of weeks or so. This will unquestionably involve some downtime. I will try to give notice of this and keep it to a minimum, but there may be occasions where NSC disappears with little warning.
We are moving to a dedicated server which has been built to a specification designed to cope with NSC's peak usage demands. There is however a small chance that the server isn't powerful enough. If this is the case, a second migration will happen to a more powerful server.