Important Server Updates

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Important Server Updates

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Digital Ocean (our hosting provider) has advised us to apply some updates to our server. I'm going to do this on Tuesday evening (30 January) at 21:00 GMT. The site will go down whilst this work is being done. I don't expect it to last for more that 30 minutes.

Apologies for the inconvenience.
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Due to me working on other stuff, I'm delaying this for a few days. I will post another message when the downtime will happen.
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The server has now been resized and benefits from twice the amount of RAM as we had previously. Therefore we should see a speed increase.
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PeterJ wrote: Tue Feb 06, 2018 9:23 pm The server has now been resized and benefits from twice the amount of RAM as we had previously. Therefore we should see a speed increase.
Provided speed-sensitive stuff runs in non-contended RAM banks, of course. :D
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I'm getting snow here. Is that somehow connected? :lol:
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Morkin wrote: Tue Feb 06, 2018 10:31 pm I'm getting snow here. Is that somehow connected? :lol:
Obviously. Bit 6 of the I register is set, and one of the contended banks is paged into the $C000–$FFFF address range. Sloppy coding. The programmer should be fired. Out of a cannon.
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and zasm Z80 Assembler syntax highlighter.
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