If you’ve noticed the site acting up, throwing errors, or loading painfully slowly over the past two weeks—we feel your pain. It has been a frustrating stretch, and we want to thank you all so much for your patience while we navigated through it.
To be completely transparent about what’s been happening behind the scenes: GrowDolls has been growing fast, but we've still been operating in a shared hosting environment. Recently, a neighboring website on our shared server was hit with massive, repeated cyber attacks. Because we shared the same digital roof, those attacks starved our site of resources, causing the frequent downtime and connection drops you experienced.
We love this community too much to let a bad neighbor ruin the experience. So, we are taking action.
Tomorrow night, we are officially migrating GrowDolls to a brand-new, fully dedicated Managed VPS (Virtual Private Server).
What does this mean for you?
Total Isolation: We will no longer share resources with any other websites. No outside attacks can touch us or slow us down.
Blazing Fast Performance: The forum will be running on much more powerful, modern hardware tailored specifically for us.
Room to Grow: As our community continues to expand, this new environment allows us to effortlessly scale up our resources so the site stays smooth and stable.
The Timeline & What to Expect
Because we know how incredibly important our Wednesday Night Chat is to everyone, we have specifically scheduled this move to ensure chat is completely unaffected.
Wednesday Chat is 100% ON: Chat will happen exactly as normal tomorrow night.
The Handoff: Once chat wraps up and the room clears out, our hosting team will begin the official data transfer at midnight.
The 24-Hour Tuning Window: While we are using specialized tools to make the transition as seamless as possible, please keep in mind that during the 24 hours following the transfer, you may experience brief interruptions, minor bugs, or temporary inaccessibility. We will be working around the clock to bring everything back online smoothly and iron out any unexpected wrinkles that creep up.
This is a massive milestone for GrowDolls, and it lays down a rock-solid foundation for the future of our forum. Thank you again for riding out the bumps with us—we can't wait for you to feel how fast the site runs on the new hardware!
See you in chat tomorrow night,
To be completely transparent about what’s been happening behind the scenes: GrowDolls has been growing fast, but we've still been operating in a shared hosting environment. Recently, a neighboring website on our shared server was hit with massive, repeated cyber attacks. Because we shared the same digital roof, those attacks starved our site of resources, causing the frequent downtime and connection drops you experienced.
We love this community too much to let a bad neighbor ruin the experience. So, we are taking action.
Tomorrow night, we are officially migrating GrowDolls to a brand-new, fully dedicated Managed VPS (Virtual Private Server).
What does this mean for you?
Total Isolation: We will no longer share resources with any other websites. No outside attacks can touch us or slow us down.
Blazing Fast Performance: The forum will be running on much more powerful, modern hardware tailored specifically for us.
Room to Grow: As our community continues to expand, this new environment allows us to effortlessly scale up our resources so the site stays smooth and stable.
The Timeline & What to Expect
Because we know how incredibly important our Wednesday Night Chat is to everyone, we have specifically scheduled this move to ensure chat is completely unaffected.
Wednesday Chat is 100% ON: Chat will happen exactly as normal tomorrow night.
The Handoff: Once chat wraps up and the room clears out, our hosting team will begin the official data transfer at midnight.
The 24-Hour Tuning Window: While we are using specialized tools to make the transition as seamless as possible, please keep in mind that during the 24 hours following the transfer, you may experience brief interruptions, minor bugs, or temporary inaccessibility. We will be working around the clock to bring everything back online smoothly and iron out any unexpected wrinkles that creep up.
This is a massive milestone for GrowDolls, and it lays down a rock-solid foundation for the future of our forum. Thank you again for riding out the bumps with us—we can't wait for you to feel how fast the site runs on the new hardware!
See you in chat tomorrow night,
