Alright, so we’ve moved. The move yesterday took about two hours from when the servers were shut down to the site being accessible again. It was fairly uneventful.

However, the site is not back up to to its old normal self. We’re still missing the hefty hardware required for content search. We’re running on a single database server with large memory. The current speed comes mostly from the database being completely cached in the RAM. So disk access is strictly for flushing MySQL’s memory back to disk.

We’re now looking for either a decent disk array to hook up to the server, or a server with decent hard drive space and high processing capability to replace the current one. So content search (where you can search for stories according to text contained in them) is still missing.