Are You Suggesting that Servers Migrate?

posted by mark in Snooth

No, we didn’t carry them by the husk, but last night Snooth moved from New York to Dallas. We’ve got a sparkling new set of shiny servers. They’re powerful, they’re RAIDed, and we’re happy to have them.

Back in the early days of Snooth, we were running on one server. It was kind of a junker, 2 gigabytes of RAM, one processor, but we were still trying to prove ourselves and didn’t need the kind of firepower that we now feel we owe you. Snooth is growing up. Philip talks about the giant shoes we’ve recently acquired through the partnership with Global Wine Stocks. We’re all about getting ourselves the room to grow into what we know will be a very important resource.

So what does this mean for you? Well, check it out. Hopefully you’ll notice the site is faster, especially for searches. Talk should be faster too (although we have some designs on scaling that with an eye towards being able to search it). Also, if you’re a California Snoother, you may notice that you have a faster experience simply because the servers are closer to you. (All traffic is in some way effected by the speed of light — the time for light to travel between the source and you is called latency.)

So let us know what you think unless of course you’re too busy snoothing around for your next bottle. Of course, we do want to hear about that one, too.

Finally, many thanks to Justin for his hard work on this. Now it’s back to work.