This website is hosted by an American company called Hostgator. It is based in Houston and Austin, Texas.
On occasions the site loads far too slowly for me and I am sure that some visitors have the same feelings. I apologize sincerely because I don’t like to deliver a less than good experience. Something, I don’t know what, changed at Hostgator that made things worse.
As a result, I decided to upgrade the way the site was hosted. This is quite a complicated business. The site will he held on an individual computer (server) at Hostgator rather than sharing a computer. This means transferring all the settings, content and comments.
The new computer is set up and ready to receive the content and comments which will be transferred over the next 72 hours or so. I don’t know when, exactly.
This means that the very last comments made after transfer may not show once the transfer is completed. They might be lost. Visitors should be aware of that. However, I will personally add content because I won’t mind if a few of my comments and an article or two of mine are lost. I can always add them back
After transfer I am hopeful that:
- the site will load faster
- there will be no variations in page load times dependent on busy and quiet times. At the moment things slow down when there is more traffic. This variability should stop after the transfer.
I will keep people posted. This slightly difficult time will be over fairly soon and we can then get back to normal.
Thanks a lot for your patience. If you have any questions please ask in a comment.
Michael, Guten Morgen. Wie ist unser Freund, Marc?
Michael, smile!
you don’t know this: I have not had anything but freezing water to bathe, in a month. Shrimp, thank you, likes to wash the back of my hand. It’s the only thing that keeps me sane right now. Michael,
[If it helps any, imagine what it feels like to be human female and not have any hot water, due to your housemate male human. grrrrrrrrrrrr…. Thank heaven, that I have my Cats. We love you, Michael.
There must be a lot more to running the site than most of us ever imagine, it sounds so complicated to me so good luck with the change over and thank you for all you do to make POC the wonderful place to visit that it is.
I don’t know what the extent of his patience is either. I would like to make a phone call on his behalf. Michael, hang in there… our cats always do, even when we torment them. Hang in there, Bro.