So, we haven’t been blogging and for the next few days, that’s likely going to be the case. Yesterday, we placed an order for our fifth shiny new shared server. DrakNet has been growing at a pretty good clip, and we decided that since Liquid Web added pipes and we were no longer living in fear of a DOS attack, it was time to step up..

In keeping with out Pokemon theme (but not our misspelled Pokemon theme), the new server’s name is Alakazam.

Alakazam are described as extremely intelligent. With an IQ of 5,000, they can outperform supercomputers and can memorize anything. Alakazam use their superior intelligence to immediately identify their opponents’ weaknesses and gain the edge in battles. This intelligence and superb memory are said to come from the fact that Alakazam’s brain cells never stop multiplying

The new server will start off advanced, with Apache 2 and MySQL 5. If anyone would like to get in line to move to the new server after we’re done making it peeples ready to take advantage of MySQL 5 immediately, please email support and we’ll put your site on a list of people to be moved. We’re likely going to be ready to open it up by the weekend, which would be a good time to scoot people over.

The move will involve an IP address change, but it should not involve any downtime nor any active DNS change on your part, and a move does move your entire account so nothing that you have should be lost or changed.

Like all our other servers, Alakazam is a high end, Enterprise level machine with dual processors and dual cores, starting with 4 Gigs of memory and expandable to 24 Gigs. We also chose the AMD Opteron Processor over Intel’s due to it’s power efficiency which, of course, makes it better for the environment