It’s now double the ram and double the CPU cores. All dedicated CPUs and not shared. Does the site need all this? Probably not, but i’ve learned over the years to never skimp on a web server. One mistake we made early on back in 2005 or so was to use “shared hosting”. Now we use a VPS.
We now have 8gb of ram and 4 CPU cores. On the previous setup we barely ever hit 30% CPU usage.
My hope is that it will make the site run faster than ever before!
In case you’re wondering, there is no visible changes. We didn’t have to change any data on the server.
I also added a new feature to the site that was requested by a long time customer. It’s a Wish List! Ever see a DVD you might want to buy later, but not right away? Just login and add it to your list.
When viewing your list you can click “Add to Cart” and it will be removed from the wish list.
BTW when we started this site, it was on a machine with only 512mb of ram…and best of all on a slow 80gb (!) mechanical hard drive. Now we use only NVME drives!
In curious you were curious, the machine we use now is not our local PC, but a remote one we use entirely for this website.