This is just horrible! Secure Delivery has so many new sign ups over the past few months that our server is woefully overloaded and we are going to need to upgrade our servers to more robust hardware. We have so many users logging in with so many products getting delivered that our server is straining to keep up with the demand!

I know, terrible problem to have, right?

Honestly though, Secure Delivery is becoming more and more popular with new accounts every day. With the coming addition of BKF* in the next few weeks, I expect it will only get worse on the hardware, not better. Paid subscriptions are bringing in enough money to pay for our current server setup and more, so it makes sense to switch now. Especially since the DC where our current server is located wants almost +$50 a month more just to add a stick of RAM in our current server. For $50 a month we can upgrade to one bad mother of a dual-quad-DDR-SCSI-1337-crazy-box and get a better processor and more disk space to boot.

I figure we will do this switch in December. Historically its the slow month for Internet shopping, and we can overlap our current server with the new, more bad ass server by bringing the new one online December 1st and cutting the old one off December 31st. This will give us plenty of time to configure the new server, migrate Secure Delivery, test everything 100%, move the DNS, do one last database import from the old server, and then do a DNS refresh to direct traffic to the new box.

Its a bit complicated, but if we do it right in theory there will only be 5 minutes of downtime at 3AM on a Sunday for our users (at least 90% of them anyway- some ISPs won’t follow our TTL request and might take longer to point to the new mamma jamma).

Once we get that solved, we’ll have to figure out that other problem we have- how to spend all the extra money we have in the bank account on advertising before the end of the year so we don’t have to pay tax on earnings :P

BKF: The Killer Feature™ that we are currently developing that we named after this English bloke who keeps asking us “When is it going to be done?!”