To my shock and surprise, it looks like we're done with the big move of ActionScript.com to it's new dedicated server. We had SO much trouble doing the move on January 1st 2006 (new target host failed at the same time the legacy system failed) that we were really expecting the worst.

This time, although the site skin/design/layout changed, we're still using the same content management system, so the layer of complexity of changing platforms was removed from the migration. Basically, we had the old server redirect everything to the new server by IP address while the DNS propagates. Now that the DNS change is mostely complete, it looks like we're all good.

The content management system is DotNetNuke, and it's performing exceptionally well on the new server. We've got the capacity to support 100 times our normal traffic without dropping a request. In the worst case scenario that we publish something that gets dugg or slashdotted (unlikely to happen, but you never know) it would only cause the server to pause a second per requests. This is much better than the performance we had on our previous host.

With speed and power comes responsibility. Now that we're in charge of our own webserver, if it goes down, it's probably going to be our fault. But I'm much more comfortable with that than leaving it to a help desk team on the other side of the globe.