New server gratitude thread

October 30, 2004 5:37 AM

New server gratitude thread
posted by Pretty_Generic to MetaFilter-related at 5:37 AM (61 comments total)

I'm full of it.








Gratitude, that is.
Cheers matt - and all in double quick time.
posted by dash_slot- at 7:27 AM on October 30, 2004

Thanks, Matt. Just in time for the Daylight Savings Time switchover -- an extra hour to spend on MeFi!
posted by spacewrench at 7:33 AM on October 30, 2004

Yay Matt.
posted by kenko at 7:39 AM on October 30, 2004

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posted by ashbury at 7:40 AM on October 30, 2004

So where is the paypal account to buy #1 a beer. Thanks, Matt, for feeding the addiction.
posted by jmgorman at 7:43 AM on October 30, 2004

Nice.
posted by normy at 7:57 AM on October 30, 2004

yay, it's fast! *bounce happily*
posted by fvw at 8:41 AM on October 30, 2004

WOOOOOO!!!

YOU. GO. BOY.

This is awesome.

-and thanks also to quonsar for the host file edit
posted by scarabic at 9:21 AM on October 30, 2004

You da man, #1.
posted by John Kenneth Fisher at 9:25 AM on October 30, 2004

Doesn't seem as fast as I'd hoped, especially for a Saturday morning.

Next week will be the real acid test.
posted by timeistight at 9:48 AM on October 30, 2004

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posted by esch at 10:53 AM on October 30, 2004

Hey, this is pretty nice. Dubya to the zero zero tee.
posted by majcher at 11:06 AM on October 30, 2004

What ashbury said.
posted by deborah at 11:15 AM on October 30, 2004

Noticeably faster. Awesome. Thanks Matt!
posted by biscotti at 12:01 PM on October 30, 2004

Hey! It works!
Multitudinous gratitudinous!!!
posted by wendell at 12:06 PM on October 30, 2004

Much faster. Hey are we like secret cabal of people who know how to edit their hosts file in here?
posted by Ryvar at 12:08 PM on October 30, 2004

Thanks a bunch Matt! See your PayPal for a more practical token of my appreciation.
posted by AstroGuy at 12:25 PM on October 30, 2004

Thanks Matt and thank you Jason Levine for hosting us for so long!
posted by riffola at 12:38 PM on October 30, 2004

Mat, you won all my electoral votes.
posted by moonbird at 12:45 PM on October 30, 2004

Love it! Thanks Matt!
posted by amandaudoff at 12:59 PM on October 30, 2004

YAY!
posted by neckro23 at 1:22 PM on October 30, 2004

Thank you. Now I'll never have an excuse to do anything else.
posted by The God Complex at 1:36 PM on October 30, 2004

*pours a 40 and sheds a tear in memory of all his JRun homies*
posted by filmgoerjuan at 1:41 PM on October 30, 2004

*spits on JRun's grave*

Thanks Matt!
posted by dhoyt at 1:54 PM on October 30, 2004

OMG, this is fast. Lightening fast. I'm creaming myself.


Thankyouthankyouthankyou, Matt. I heart you.
posted by five fresh fish at 2:37 PM on October 30, 2004

OMG, this is fast. Lightening fast. I'm creaming myself.

Is "lightening" fast like blowing your load? I guess you lose the excess baggage either way.

+10 points for making a joke about lightening vs lightning.
posted by The God Complex at 3:51 PM on October 30, 2004

Much faster. Thank you, Matt.
posted by eustacescrubb at 4:14 PM on October 30, 2004

Thank you. The only downside is I used to be able count on the lag time between 'preview' and 'post' to reconsider. I may actually have to think now.

Also, thank you to Mr. Levines magical closet.

The JRUN, RUN, RUN... she don't run no more.
posted by cedar at 4:45 PM on October 30, 2004

Wow. Smooth as shit from a duck's arse. Nice.
posted by Blue Stone at 5:28 PM on October 30, 2004

TGC: :*)
posted by five fresh fish at 5:35 PM on October 30, 2004

Cool, thanks.
posted by Keyser Soze at 5:57 PM on October 30, 2004

Hmm, on second thought, it runs a little too fast. Is there any way to slow it down a bit, Matt?
posted by dhoyt at 6:16 PM on October 30, 2004

thanks
(strangely, front pages seem to be much slower than threads)
(hmm. on preview, that was slow. i suspect it's just the link from here to the rest of the world).
posted by andrew cooke at 6:25 PM on October 30, 2004

I miss the smell of old books and cardboard boxes, and the quiet shy apartment talk coming from just oustide the glass-knobbed door. I miss the thrill of fire-walking on her accidental code. I miss our giggling pajama'd flirts with JRun hide-and-seek. I miss her dear old obstinacies.

But soon the smell of hot aluminum tinged with industrial-strength antiseptic, soon the echoing snippets of anonymous IT mercenaries barking through the mantra hum of high-efficiency fans - soon these will characterize the good old days - and I swear I'll find a way to miss them too.
posted by Opus Dark at 7:09 PM on October 30, 2004

I know this is weird, but the whole internet is faster.

By the way, Opus Dark = David Foster Wallace, a little bit drunk. Trust me.
posted by _sirmissalot_ at 7:46 PM on October 30, 2004

Merci.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 7:52 PM on October 30, 2004

Bush is Hitler!

Wow, that posted fast

Cheers, Matt! Thanks!
posted by squirrel at 8:19 PM on October 30, 2004

"Bush is no Hitler. I chose a good Gotterdammerung suicide. Bush will wimp out." - Hitler, from hell.
posted by troutfishing at 9:05 PM on October 30, 2004

I know this is weird, but the whole internet is faster.

Well, of course it is. This is the whole Internet, isn't it? At least, the distilled essence of it, anyway. Matt, thank you - this is well-needed and well-appreciated.
posted by wanderingmind at 12:42 AM on October 31, 2004

i find all the internets to be faster.
posted by The God Complex at 12:47 AM on October 31, 2004

dammit. i always said i wouldn't make the internets joke again, but then i forgot.







about poland. oh snap.
posted by The God Complex at 1:37 AM on October 31, 2004

Does this mean that membership will be opening again soon?

(And thanks Matt!)
posted by Ljubljana at 1:27 AM on October 31, 2004

Well, it's sure made you all a lot easier to see, these new servers.

You're not as cute as I thought. Except for jonmc. And me.

Weird.
posted by WolfDaddy at 4:34 AM on October 31, 2004

Thanks Matt
posted by Tarrama at 4:54 AM on October 31, 2004

Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive ...
posted by feelinglistless at 5:04 AM on October 31, 2004

thank you Matt
posted by MzB at 6:26 AM on October 31, 2004

awesome, thanks
posted by matteo at 7:08 AM on October 31, 2004

Nice. Thanks, Matt.
posted by gleuschk at 7:57 AM on October 31, 2004

Smell that? That's TEEN SPIRIT!

It is right to give Matt and Jason thanks and praise.
posted by chicobangs at 9:27 AM on October 31, 2004

thanks! wot, no dropcash link neither?
posted by mwhybark at 9:35 AM on October 31, 2004

Thanks mate.
posted by ginz at 10:00 AM on October 31, 2004

Thanks, Matt. Nice improvement, and the downtime was minimal.
posted by theora55 at 10:25 AM on October 31, 2004

Sweet. I gotta say, the front page of MeFi itself doesn't seem super fast, but the comment pages, and all the *Fi derivatives are smokin'.

The JRUN, RUN, RUN... she don't run no more.

I think it actually does. I'm assuming there weren't any structural coding changes, and that the site still runs on ColdFusion, but yeah, it's nice to have enough horsepower to handle the load!

Is MeFi Pro around the corner?
posted by mkultra at 11:14 AM on October 31, 2004

Am I crazy, or is MeTa Grey different after the server move? The Blue and the Green all look the same...
posted by Orange Goblin at 11:52 AM on October 31, 2004

You are crazy.
posted by _sirmissalot_ at 12:07 PM on October 31, 2004

Dubya to the zero zero tee.

How pathetic am I? Pathetic enough that I was trying to figure out the political reference rather than the l33Tsp43K.

It is right to give Matt and Jason thanks and praise.

It is meet and right so to do.

It is meet, right, and our bounden duty, always and everywhere to give thanks and praise to Queso DelFuego and the Man With The Internet In His Pants.
posted by Vidiot at 12:19 PM on October 31, 2004

i think it looks different too, Orange--it's a little browner.
posted by amberglow at 12:27 PM on October 31, 2004

Matt, this is great. I plan to enjoy the heck out of it. After Tuesday.
posted by mmahaffie at 3:12 PM on October 31, 2004

Matt h. is teh kewl.
posted by zpousman at 8:25 AM on November 1, 2004

A+++++++++ Would post on this website again!
posted by Outlawyr at 10:47 AM on November 1, 2004

It is moving with the quickness of a frolicking pony!! Old and busted was a 30-40 second lag between each page (from my work computer with time-warner cable). Now from work is like a 2-5 second page load! And comment preview is lickety-split!

Well done, well done, Mr. Matt H. Pony!
posted by naxosaxur at 10:54 AM on November 1, 2004