Xbmc.org Gets a New Home

February 11th, 2010 theuni

As I alluded in the last post, the main xbmc.org site, as well as the wiki, trac, and forum have all been moved to a new location, graciously provided by WebHostingBuzz. They have stepped up in a huge way and provided an 8-core Xeon server with all the bells and whistles at their Atlanta hosting facility. Even better, they’ve agreed to help with  future projects as needed. For the foreseeable future, the sky is the limit.

The move was prompted by increasing pageload times in the forum and unacceptable trac performance. After a few hours of tuning early yesterday, load times are already much better than they were before. Please bear with us in the coming days as we perform the final tests and tweaks to squeeze out all possible performance.

Thanks again to the generous staff at WHB for helping us to grow, and for supporting the open-source ecosystem. We hope our users enjoy the new faster sites. It looks like we’ll be able to sustain your f5 keys for a while yet.

  1. Rob
    February 11th, 2010 at 22:04 | #1

    Thanks for the transparent move. I would not have know if I didn’t read the tweet

  2. Wulfsdale
    February 11th, 2010 at 22:27 | #2

    Didn’t notice a thing, very smooth transition indeed.
    A big thank you to WHB for their commitment & support to this great open source project.
    W.

  3. davidw
    February 12th, 2010 at 03:05 | #3

    Nice guys!

  4. Fergus
    February 12th, 2010 at 05:56 | #4

    “Didn’t notice a thing” – I beg to differ, in a positive manner!

    The forum is far more resonsive (not that the speed particularly bothered me before) but viewing tickets on Trac has gone from a so-sluggish-to-be-unusable-at-times exercise in frustration to a snappy enjoyable exercise.

    Thanks all!

  5. Fanatix
    February 12th, 2010 at 06:33 | #5

    Thanks WHB for supporting this open source project and its community!

  6. Domini0n
    February 12th, 2010 at 09:56 | #6

    Great news!

    Many thanks to WHB for this big contribution.

  7. sheppy124
    February 12th, 2010 at 12:13 | #7

    I did wonder why all my book marks are getting re-directed

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