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Finally, after months and months of testing and data migration, we are ready to cut over all users to the new GoPC supercomputer infrastructure.

The change over will occur progressively over the next 24 hours.  There will be a couple of brief periods where all users will need to be logged off. This will be the first complete outage of the system affecting all users since we migrated the data centre in June 2006. It’s a record we’ve become very proud of but we’ve got to move forward. There are so many improvements on the new system, not the least of which is the time to create a new user account which drops from the current 4 minutes down to about 10-30 seconds.  Login times should also halve.  The next stages which will follow from this upgrade will be the rollout of new supercomputing nodes into North America and Europe and this will see a huge improvement in screen responsiveness for users closer to those regions (particularly Europe and Africa).

We have done our utmost to minimise the impact of this outage.  There are some areas which we have not been able to test until the live cut over is complete and there is the potential that we will encounter teething problems in some areas.  We will rectify any issues as soon as they arrise.  If you do experience any teething issues after the next 24 hours please contact us through the contact from on the website or email (support [at] gopc.net).

Once the new infrastructure is running we will start announcing a lot of rolling improvements to the system.  There will be a lot more choice available to customers, and a lot more freedom within some of the account types which we will have available.  Many thanks to those customers who have been answering our surveys and offering constructive feedback.

Graeme Speak
CEO / Founder