Occasionally people ask where the money for memberships goes. Usually it just pays for upkeep of the software and occasional parts that break. Thanks to several recent contributions and a great deal on equipment by a fellow member, I'm happy to say that we will be completely upgrading our server hardware in the near future. This will give us two redundant servers (each also having RAID1 storage), replicating data multiple times and in multiple ways. Through Xen we will split the functionality into Linux virtual machines, to lessen the impact of a corrupted file system in a single OS instance among other benefits.

I'll get the systems soon and start building them. I intend to get things cut over in the next week or two; you can anticipate some intermittent outages around that time, though I anticipate they will be brief.