Good news and bad news.
I’m pleased to announce that the current Quad core server that had recently replaced the Pentium D server is running as expected. It has taken considerable load off our other servers and everything is churning along under load – even at peak hours.
We’re however, still stuck with the same session and search duplication bug. We’re unsure the exact cause of this as it worked perfectly fine with our old server so this may have something to do with the new binary compilation. And it has a little bit to do with a design fault made by phpBB devs. There are a few ways to fix this, but since redesigning the part which generates the random variable hasn’t worked. I suspect it could be due to either the new server or simply too many people logging on now that we have increased capacity.
Whatever it is, we will fix these before we activating registrations again.