Moving oneilsoft.com to a new hosting platform

The O'Neil website and especially the User Forum, have proven to be very popular additions to our channels of communications with our customers and partners.  People have come to rely on these resources and, when performance is not what is expected, it can be frustrating.   When we initially set this up we used a shared-hosting platform at Go-Daddy.com.  After working with the technical support group at Go-Daddy, we believe that this platform (now described as a legacy platform) is causing some latency issues, which are being seen as performance delays.  As such, its time to move up...

Go-Daddy has a new offering, known as 4GH® (Fourth-Generation Hosting).  This is a flexible hosting platform that matches performance with demand. If our site's traffic spikes, 4GH responds by allocating more resources and keeping our site live.  As our site is growing, 4GH will grow with it so we shouldn't have to manually upgrade in the future and experience any unnecessary downtime.  4GH "pools" the resources of many servers and our site's content resides on multiple servers. This networked system helps achieve a high reliability—beyond 99.9%—for our website because if one server shuts down, only a fraction of the total resources are lost.

This Friday we will commence the upgrade and there may be some short periods of outages, but we hope to keep these to a minimum.   Thanks for your patience as we work to upgrade the website.

UPDATE:  The move is complete and went very smoothly.  Please let us know if you experience anything "unusual" but we think everything is just fine.