When we were in Boston last week, it became clear that our little family website was a bit more popular than we had realized and the traffic was bogging down our little “beginner” webserver (we realized we had a problem when the entire staff of NWOA all reported that they had seen all of our videos!). Folks on the East Coast, in particular, weren’t having a great experience with the videos, which were taking too long to download.
This weekend, I upgraded our servers, moving to a new hosting facility. That means that videos in our photo gallery should download a LOT faster now—no more waiting for them to load!
I have two favors to ask:
1) This upgrade was a bit more manual than I would have liked. That means that you may come across parts of the website that are broken. I’ve tried to make sure everything works, so please let me know if you find something broken!!
2) The upgrade took me about five hours over two days, and mommy Holly got a little grumpy over it. Do me a favor and tell her (call, email, whatever!) how excited you are about the website upgrade—how much you love the zippiness of the new site… But don’t tell her that I told you to say it! 😉 (if you don’t have her contact info memorized, you can find it on the About Us page)
Enjoy!
