By
Keyvan Nayyeri
Those who today came to Waegis to visit the site or used the service API to identify spams noticed that we had a short downtime. This downtime was an expected downtime for upgrading our server software to the most recent versions. However, I apologize for the short downtime although it was not avoidable.
The first and most important change on our servers is the installation of SQL Server 2008 and upgrading our previous SQL Server 2005 database to this new version that comes with many great features. Now our server is using SQL Server 2008 x64 edition that is 100% reliable and scalable. SQL Server 2008 was released last month but is not extensively offered by hosting providers yet. Waegis would be one of the first enterprise .NET solutions that applies SQL Server 2008.
The second change was upgrading our .NET Framework 3.5 version to Service Pack 1 that was released last month just a few days after the official release of SQL Server 2008. I also applied some changes in the software to use some new features in this service pack.
And finally the third and the last update was the installation of some security mechanisms that will improve our security level more and more. So far we’ve had several security attacks on our servers and we’ve been able to defend very well. These security changes will refine our security to be much better than the past.
I’m proud to say that at the moment we’re running on the most recent Microsoft server and development technologies including Windows Server 2008 x64, SQL Server 2008 x64 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1. More interestingly our software is completely written and hosted on 64 bit platforms. I’m sure all these attempts have their own effects on our high quality, speed and reliability.
Here I would thank our hoster, MaximumASP, that is doubtlessly one of the top two ASP.NET hosting providers. MaximumASP SQL team have been in touch with me in order to upgrade our database to SQL Server 2008 with least downtime and side-effects. MaximumASP was one of the two hosters (along Orcsweb) that offered SQL Server 2008 installation as soon as Microsoft dropped the final version to the market. At that time I decided to upgrade our servers but we (MaximumASP and I) decided to do some further evaluations before the upgrade.
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