We've had a new (to us) server donated to PLUG. This is now in place and with it we have a new website with a brand new unique template.
All these changes should give us a server that can spit out web pages significantly faster than the old server and allow it to survive a simple crawl from a search engine without being brought to it's knees.
We have also moved to a new CMS that should be much easier for people to learn and therefore be easier for someone to donate their time to help with the website.
Please look over the website and let me know if you see any glaring problems with it.
Many thanks go to Alan Dayley who donated the previous server. I can't remember when exactly when it was put into service but we received 7+ years of service out of it. And although it's still a perfectly functional machine, it's only a PIII 800 with 512Mb of ram. It just couldn't keep up with the world of 2011 anymore.
Also many thanks go to der.hans for donating the new server, Jill R for doing the initial load of the server.
And lastly, you can throw thanks or eggs whatever you feel appropriate at me, Brian Cluff for the website redesign. (Please try to be nice though... throw the eggs softly)
Now go check it out.
Brian Cluff
PS If anyone would have use for the old PLUG webserver, it's a 2U rack mount HP server with 4 18gig SCSI drives, hardware RAID controller in addition to the specs listed previously. It's yours free for the taking.
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