Tech Note: The New Web Server's Here

Science | Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 4:05:12 pm PST

Well, not quite here, but it’s set up and ready to migrate everything over from the current one, the one that’s serving the page you’re reading right now.

The old one is a dual core Xeon 3.0, the new one is a quad core Xeon 3.4 with hyperthreading, so the processor will be considerably more powerful, which should help prevent hamster fatigue and class war.

We’re not sure exactly when the changeover will happen, but there may be some downtime involved, so we’ll try to schedule it for a bit later when traffic tapers off somewhat.