MacDailyNews and iPodDailyNews will be upgrading our ability to serve our growing traffic demands this weekend. As you probably know, the site has been sluggish lately as visits to our sites continue to grow. During recent Apple events, the sites have been virtually inaccessible at times, so the upgrade is in order. In October 2005, we served 2.185 million sessions and transferred 377.22 GB of data to 136 countries. Our host, pMachine Hosting has explained that an IP address change will be necessary as we move to a new dedicated server. As some of you may know, our sites are driven by pMachines’ ExpressionEngine and we highly recommend pMachine Hosting for dependable, secure, high-performance web hosting with excellent customer service.
We expect the vast majority of visitors will see the new server within hours as the DNS information propagates. For a small minority, it could take up to a day or so for the new IP information to propagate. It will depend on your ISP. During the changeover, visitors whose ISP’s haven’t yet incorporated the new DNS information and are still hitting the old server will see a note stating that fact. If you see the actual MacDailyNews or iPodDailyNews web site as usual, you’re all set; you’ll already be visiting the new server.
Thank you for your patience during this changeover and enjoy the increase in site responsiveness!
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[UPDATE: 1:09pm ET: As those who’ve followed our travels from server to server know, MacDailyNews’ and iPodDailyNews’ current host, pMachine Hosting, uses servers that run Linux. We have also used Mac OS 9, Mac OS X and FreeBSD in the past. We probably will hit one or all of them again in the future – well, maybe not Mac OS 9. 
Notice that we have never used a Windows-based server, nor will we ever. ‘Nix variants, when offered by a robust host with reasonable rates, are all in play, with Mac OS X, of course, being our primary choice when it’s available. This site was designed on Mac OS, the articles are written on machines running Mac OS X and we endorse Mac OS X completely for servers and many other uses. Because we use pMachine’s ExpressionEngine, we feel our best hosting choice by far is pMachine Hosting. MacDailyNews’ host server information is, as always, publicly available via Netcraft here.]