Ok so after an uncomfortable few days during the week, we've got the site over on a much needed new server (for the second time in 4 days!). We've blown the equivalent of a few music video grants in the process ;)

Many people noticed the site slowing down to a crawl in the week or so previously - this was due to the site growing faster than expected and it put pressure on the old server it was on to deliver more than it could. The hosting company placed limits on the slow requests meaning lost of "Page Not Found" errors started appearing (very annoying!).

Anyways - it's now in a cluster dedicated server environment with ample room to grow. In theory it should be quite fast to use. That said as we are still building lots of new features, there may be moments where things slow down for certain features that haven't been performance tuned. As developments settle down we will performance tune everything into shape. All said, I don't think you'll notice any slow downs - hopefully!

And just to celebrate new servers, we've launched Private Messaging! Yay! It can be found in your personalised navigation menu on the right hand side of the site, called "Messages".