Month: August 2015

Phew,

It’s always quite stressful whenever we’re tweaking any particular bit of our server network… Let alone completely revamping our infrastructure, upgrading every server in the process, and rolling out HTTPS (SSL) at the same time!

But now, after 2 full weeks, I can confidently say that our server infrastructure upgrade has been a resounding success all-around!

It’s been smooth sailing for 14 straight days now, without even a hint of issues or down-time, and our users are reporting an even better user experience than before. And that’s always a huge success in our book!

As mentioned in my post from August 5th (and my other post from August 7th) we’ve just rolled out the biggest server infrastructure upgrade EVER in the entire history of Spin Rewriter.

We started moving all data over to the new infrastructure at 11:42 AM EDT today. The first instance of downtime occurred at 11:48 EDT and lasted 6 minutes. The second (and last) instance of downtime occurred at 1:22 PM EDT and lasted 14 minutes.

When all our websites became available once again at 1:36 PM EDT, the spinning functionality of Spin Rewriter took an additional 26 minutes to fully reboot.

Since 2:02 PM EDT all of our systems have been up & running, and running better than ever before! 😀

As an added bonus, we also switched the entire Spin Rewriter website over to the HTTPS protocol with an SSL certificate today, for added security and reliability.

This means you can update your bookmarks to https://www.SpinRewriter.com 😀

Bottom line, I hope you’re going to LOVE this new, snappier, even more robust Spin Rewriter! 😉

< Part 1: We’re working on the biggest server upgrade EVER
< Part 2: Our biggest server upgrade ever just became even BIGGER