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Subeta is offline while we migrate to new servers. Here's the short version:Our current host adds about 90ms of network latency to every single database query. That means a page that runs 15 queries (which is a small page on Subeta) wastes over a second just waiting on the network — before any actual work happens. I spent days building workarounds (local caches, connection proxies, query batching), but that time is just baked into the architecture and can't be fixed.
We moved to this host specifically because they were going to be able to handle the complex and unusual setup of especially classic Subeta. That ended up not being the case, and so we are moving very quickly.
It sucks! Unfortunately, three major services just fell over, and bringing them back online would be about the amount of time of doing an emergency maintenance and moving. I'm sorry that I wasn't able to give more upfront warning, but hopefully this won't take too long, and I will be providing updates here.
So, I'm moving us to another host, where the database sits right next to the app servers on the same private network. That 90ms drops to under 1ms. All three Subeta sites (subeta.net, kumos.subeta.net, and sapi.subeta.net) should be noticeably faster after this move.
Your data is safe — we're copying the database to the new servers, not deleting anything. This will take a while because we have a lot of data to move.
- keith