StormVideographer Making Some Big Upgrades

Deadly Weather, Record Temperatures and Server Crashes

It’s been a very active weekend across the nation weather-wise, with deadly tornadoes over the mid South, and record high temperatures in Florida. I have been unable to cover the latest weather events this past weekend due to server problems and growing pains. StormVideographer has become pretty popular on the web, and when things get active like they have been the last few weeks across the nation, and even internationally with the deadly Cyclone, the site gets slammed. Well, this weekend turned out to become a big headache for me trying to keep the site in working order. Not only am I stressed from the current situation, but some of my advertisers are as well…not good.

Growing To Big For My Current Server

The current small business web hosting I have is no longer working for the amount of traffic and request for video files from the site. The server is continuously getting worked over and it’s time to upgrade. Over the next few days (about 36-48 hours), I’ll be upgrading to not only a large server with power, but a new host since the current one I have is not playing nice with their service plans and fee’s for moving. I have been with them for 3 years and I have been treated pretty poorly from their customer service department this week. That’s a whole other post for another time.

So Much To Move, Where Did It All Come From?

So, I’ll be moving nearly 600 blog post articles, over 6000 files, and tons of video streams over to a new server host. This will likely not be seamless, so the site might be up and down for the next few days until I get settled into my new server home. The name server change with take a day or two to propagate the internet. Don’t fear, the StormVideographer Blog is not disappearing, just adjusting to some major growing pains and needing a more mature backbone server for it to continue.

Thanks and So Much To Come This Summer

Thanks to all my resident readers for understanding the possible down time the next few days, and those new to the blog, this is just a hiccup and things should be back to normal very soon.

Thanks - Jeff Gammons