If you visited the site in the past 24 hours, you´ve probably noticed very slow speeds and lots of error messages. The reason for that is simple: The recent releases of rFactor 2 previews have simply caused the server to collapse, right now the site is staying up thanks to lot of caching. Seems like the current server isn’t too happy about hundreds of simultaneous connections….
To address these issues, the site will be moving to a more powerful dedicated server in a few hours. During that time (approx. 4 hours), the site won’t be available at all. But don’t worry, VirtualR is not going anywhere…it just needs to be prepared for more growth.
I´ll keep you updated, I´m extremely sorry about the inconvenience! 
Tifose
March 4th, 2009 at 19:08
Go rFactor!!!
LensFlare
March 4th, 2009 at 19:53
This is only good news in my opinion !
Grats, Montoya ! It only shows how well you do your job :)
PvtStash
March 4th, 2009 at 20:08
Thanks for the site and your work, shows you care if you are prepared to part with cash. ;)
Uff
March 4th, 2009 at 20:15
You now have a good excuse to contact ISI and ask them for a rF2 preview.
Brad
March 4th, 2009 at 20:20
yay. coupling the amount of views you get and the fact that you use wordpress…it’s bound to kill those shared servers after a while… all hail dedicated. who are you going to host with btw?
Montoya
March 4th, 2009 at 20:23
My current hoster, it’s just moving in-house. That keeps the downtime to a minimum.
Actually, this has been somewhat of a healty shock as I´ve been postponing this step for a while now. But it definately is the best for the site in the long run… plus I´ve been holding back some new features simply because I wasn’t sure the server would handle it.
stabiz
March 4th, 2009 at 20:43
This is a good problem to have!
F1Racer
March 4th, 2009 at 21:26
goes to show where the real popularity is eh ?
Look fwd to seeing virtualr on new servers. Seems it will need to be there if more rF2 stuff is shown off.
Maybe ISI should help you out with some of the hosting costs, hehe :)
Brad
March 4th, 2009 at 22:41
Either you moved or my browser is caching cause your site actually loads really fast now
Montoya
March 4th, 2009 at 22:47
Nope, the site has not been moved yet…it will be in about 2-3 hours, because it’s night time in Europe then.
It runs kind of okay now, but that’s just because of heavy caching. That works aslong as no new stories or comments are posted because that forces the cache to update, putting the full load on the database again.
But you´re still free to comment in the meantime, it won’t break anything
Brad
March 5th, 2009 at 00:09
Haha that explains it. I was about the net today, and people had posted a link to my “3 more rFactor shots” and like every few posts about mine was your initial link xD. So yea you did stir quite a lot of dust with rFactor 2.
modbaraban
March 5th, 2009 at 05:36
Great work, Montoya! Congrats on the new server!