Invision Plus Blog

For those who have been around here using our free forum hosting, we greatly thank you for your support and contributions to our community. We constantly consider the feedback, suggestions and evolving needs of both basic and advanced message board users and hope that we can continue to meet and even exceed expectations.

We have been growing, which is always good news, but growth inevitably creates challenges…like slow load times and increased data management responsibilities. We are proud to announce that the site migration is complete and things are running great!

For months we have made site performance a top issue around here, though we kept a lid on things until we saw light at the end of the tunnel. We still have a VERY small number of sites that we are working to restore, but over 99% of the sites are online and working great and we will continue to restore the remaining few while rolling out many new updates and exciting initiatives.

Here is a summary of what we have been up to:
1st) We purchased several NEW top of the line servers and upgraded our entire site

2nd) We rewrote thousands of lines of code to make sites run faster, more efficiently and provide room for a lot more growth (if we are so lucky to continue growing)

3rd) We implemented memcache, a highly effective tool for helping websites scale effectively

4th) We are testing and rolling out several new features, including SPAM FIGHTING tools, stuff to improve search, advanced global directory upgrades and MANY other additions that we will be announcing soon.

Thanks for creating and joining some great conversations around here…we look forward to a great 2008!

We are aware of the connection issue and are working on solving it right now. The site is nearly transferred, things have been running very fast and smoothly for a few days…but it looks like there is hopefully 1 last issue related to the migration that we need to get ironed out.

UPDATE:  The connection issue was fixed a reasonably short time after it occurred, and also the migration is complete except for a very small number of sites (we are still working on those).

The RSS Feed has now been fixed on this blog.
I hope to bring this blog to life once more, so please use the RSS Feed so that you are constantly up-to-date!

EDIT: I have made a little cleanup of the blog too.