Bigger, better, faster, more

I debated whether to write a humorous intro, but I’ve ultimately decided it’s more important to get succinct information out to everyone, so here’s the TLDR:
Over the next few weeks, we will migrate NearlyFreeSpeech.NET to all-new equipment and greatly upgraded network infrastructure.

• We’re replacing our Intel Xeon servers with brand-new AMD Epyc servers.
• All our existing file storage will be migrated from SATA SSDs to NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSDs.
• Most of our content will be served from New York City rather than Phoenix after the upgrade.
• Various things may be intermittently weird or slow for the next couple of weeks as we shift them around, but we’re working hard to minimize and avoid disruptions to hosted services.

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