As you may have noticed, it’s (past) time for us to upgrade our server capacity to better serve our growing readership.
Unlike static sites, MacDailyNews and iPodDailyNews, are extremely dynamic. Every reader post is made and displayed (on the same page as the article) in real-time, registered users are logging in and out, the left side column feeds are frequently updated, etc.
MacDailyNews’ and iPodDailyNews’ web host, EngineHosting, who specialize in hosting solutions for our chosen content management system, ExpressionEngine, will be upgrading our server capacity this weekend.
We hope to have it all done seamlessly and finished by the night of Saturday, June 7, as we expect a bit of extra traffic on and around June 9th.
Thank you for your patience and thank you for patronizing our advertisers, without whom we would not exist.
Thanks also to all those who have first clicked our Apple Store links before buying their Macs, software, monitors, iPods, iPhones, etc. — it really helps!
(To that special person who bought something like 10 Mac Pros in one shot earlier this year… words fail us… we’re verklempt… Thanks!)
MacDailyNews Note: As those who’ve followed our travels from server to server over the years know, MacDailyNews’ and iPodDailyNews’ current host, EngineHosting, uses servers that run F5 Big-IP with Apache on Linux (Red Hat). 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 X, 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 Ellis Lab’s ExpressionEngine, we feel our best hosting choice by far is EngineHosting (we’ve been with them since the pMachine days). MacDailyNews’ host server information is, as always, publicly available via Netcraft here.
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