To support the growth of the College Confidential community, we're more than doubling our server capacity by adding another state-of-the-art server to our forum data center.
One of our key objectives here at CC is to keep our forum very responsive - it's reflected in our page design and feature set. We know that not everyone has a high-bandwidth connection, and try to keep the pages light and efficient.
Sometimes, though, lean software design isn't enough, and you have to throw more hardware at the problem. So, we're doing just that with our new server. We expect this will keep things snappy as we get busy in the fall and spring.
You may notice a brief outage when the upgrade is underway - it should be less than an hour, and we plan to do it in the morning (EDT) when usage is lightest.
Thanks to all of our members who have created the need for the additional capacity
(we're going to send zantedeschia an invoice for a prorated portion of the new server cost 
), and to our diligent mod crew for keeping CC a friendly and welcoming place where students and parents can come to learn about and discuss college admissions.
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