…in more ways than one. We’re moving up in traffic growth and we’re moving hosts. Traffic has grown to the extent that many site visitors have increasingly been experiencing difficulties in not getting in to the site and in being timed out.

We’ve been aware of this as a growing problem and had evolved a plan to move to a new server host and with a package giving us 6 times our current capacity. This was supposed to take place in 2 – 3 months time.

However, given the rise in site users’ difficulties as traffic growth has continued, we took a decision early this week to hold our breath and make the move now.

So – three days ago we began what is a slow, painstaking and nerve-racking business. The site is already pretty big, given the size of its archive. We don’t want to lose any of this because it’s a part of For Argyll’s enduring value. Our Google ranking is also high and we don’t want to lose position we’ve worked hard to gain.

So part of the first stage has been putting measures in place to back up and save the site and to protect our ranking. This has been done. Now we’re loading the site to the new destination. And the crunch will come sometime over the weekend when we publish it to that server.

We are also taking with us the various community websites we support – which will give them a first class service long into the future. This, however, does increase the complexity of the move.

If all goes well, nothing will be any different at the front end – except that access will no longer be a problem. If Murphy’s Law prevails, we may have to shut the site for 24 hours.

We apologise for the access problems many of you will have been experiencing lately. Please bear with us over the next few days. We’re doing our best to avoid disruption but there may well be some. But keep using the site and if we do have to take it down for a day, there will be a notice to say so.

The good news is that once we cross this threshold together, we’ll all be free of the nuisance of logjams and we can have more fun.

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