Thanks to all of you BerryReview has been growing at a rapid pace. Last week we started reaching the limits of our server and decided to upgrade to a faster dedicated server through the great team at MediaLayer.
I wanted to apologize for the slow page loading speeds some of you experienced last week which prompted the upgrade and wanted to reinforce our commitment to a enjoyable reader experience. We are now on our new dedicated server which should be able to handle over 4 times the visitors we currently serve so we should be good for a few weeks. 
In case you want to see what is currently running BerryReview:
2 Intel Core i7 920 – 4x 2.66GHz + hyperthreading –
6GB DDR3 RAM
4x73GB 15,000 RPM SAS drives
Hardware based RAID 10
CentOS OS 5.4, LightSpeed Webserver
Please let us know if you notice anything that needs to be fixed on the site since we may have missed something. I know that our BerryReview WebSignal will be down until RIM white lists our new IP address…
Tom ( View Profile) Enthusiast - Posts: 364
Posted: November 22, 2009 at 6:54 PM EST
It’s refreshing to see someone proactively reacting to the increased traffic! Keep up the excellent work…
camshafter ( View Profile) Newcomer - Posts: 29
Posted: November 22, 2009 at 7:05 PM EST
awesome, i really like this site!!!! you seem to post most new information before anyone else..
keep up the good work and thank you
camshafter
DavidB ( View Profile) Guru - Posts: 1751
Posted: November 22, 2009 at 8:07 PM EST from my BlackBerry 9530
It sure comes up faster on my BlackBerry tonight.
Ronen Halevy ( View Profile) Senior admin - Posts: 5296
Posted: November 22, 2009 at 8:47 PM EST
Glad you guys like it! Been working on it for a week or two now to make sure things are up to snuff. I hate slow websites and I think it is important to keep things fast!
automan69 ( View Profile) Enthusiast - Posts: 489
Posted: November 22, 2009 at 11:10 PM EST from my BlackBerry 9630
Congrats Ronen. Nice to see your web site load much faster now. I do have a suggestion, is there a way you can look into adding (editing) to our posts while using blackberry? Just a thought.
DavidB Not Registered
Posted: November 22, 2009 at 11:50 PM EST from my BlackBerry 9630
LOL! I was just asking him about that earlier this week! Moving to new server was one of the prerequisites.
From my BlackBerry Tour…
Ronen Halevy ( View Profile) Senior admin - Posts: 5296
Posted: November 23, 2009 at 7:34 AM EST
You guys are talking about editing comments after you submit them? You also want to do that from your BlackBerry? Just want to confirm before I look into it. My only fear is that spammers will use it to pass the spam detection and then edit it full of spam. It will also not be re-sent to the people who are subscribed to the comment…
automan69 ( View Profile) Enthusiast - Posts: 489
Posted: November 23, 2009 at 7:48 AM EST from my BlackBerry 9630
Yes Ronen that’s what I’m asking you. Sometime after we summit a commet it gets double posted or miss spelling. It would be nice to have the option.
DavidB ( View Profile) Guru - Posts: 1751
Posted: November 23, 2009 at 9:11 AM EST from my BlackBerry 9630
So you wanna edit THAT comment automan?
From my BlackBerry Tour…
DavidB ( View Profile) Guru - Posts: 1751
Posted: November 23, 2009 at 9:09 AM EST from my BlackBerry 9630
Do spammers log in? Only allow comment editing when logged in.
I want to be able to edit from BlackBerry and pc.
From my BlackBerry Tour…
Ronen Halevy ( View Profile) Senior admin - Posts: 5296
Posted: November 23, 2009 at 11:14 AM EST
Let me see if there is a way to pull that off that wont be abused…
Bla1ze Not Registered
Posted: November 22, 2009 at 11:34 PM EST
Awesome! Congrats on the growth Ronen.
Ronen Halevy ( View Profile) Senior admin - Posts: 5296
Posted: November 23, 2009 at 7:35 AM EST
Thanks Bla1ze et al! Just glad we could speed things up fast enough. Last week was bad with the previous server melting down with the load.
Brian ( View Profile) Newcomer - Posts: 39
Posted: November 23, 2009 at 12:16 AM EST
Now I can quadroople the amount of reviews I write!
Genaro201 ( View Profile) Newcomer - Posts: 45
Posted: November 23, 2009 at 1:26 AM EST
Cool!, you guys are doing great. i love this site, its the first site i ran into since i bought my 1st blackberry and i’ve learned alot since. i have been and still am a proud follower of berryreview.
Genaro
FOSSroxTHX Not Registered
Posted: November 23, 2009 at 1:51 PM EST
Awesome job, Ronen. Your site absolutely rocks.