Google Sightseeing takes you on tour of the world as seen from satellite, using the free Google Earth program, or Google Maps in your web browser. Each weekday your guides James and Alex present new weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.

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Moving Hosts

Thursday, 25th May 2006 by James

We’re currently in the process of moving Google Sightseeing to dedicated hosting. And, if you’re reading this, it’s worked!

Google Sightseeing now has its own dedicated server from EV1 Servers, so everything round here should be pretty speedy. The setup with EV1 went very smoothly, expect for their “thanks for buying a server” courtesy call at 3am - my wife was not amused.

So, we’re now fully equipped to handle any slashdotting/diggin/boingboinging traffic you send our way, and then some. However, if you do happen to get any errors on the site please leave a comment on this thread and we’ll get it fixed ASAP.

Update: The Akismet spam plugin was eating all the comments so I’ve temporarily disabled it. Your comments should get through now, but we may get spammed lots. Let’s wait and see how it goes…

6 Responses to 'Moving Hosts'

  1. 1. woowoowoo says:

    At the moment, the domain won’t resolve without the www, so non-relative links are broken and it can’t find the css. I’ve even had to edit the action of this form to get it to submit!

  2. 2. James says:

    Thanks woowoowoo, I think the www problem is that your host has the old ip for www and the new without - it should sort itself out soon enough.

    Possibly unrelated but Akismet suddenly decided that every comment was spam so you may have noticed that they weren’t showing up. I’ve updated it to the latest version and we’ll see if it happens again.

  3. 3. me says:

    I have no style sheet on either www or without. Images are working though.

  4. 4. me says:

    my comments are being marked as spam!

  5. Google Sightseeing Admin
    5. Alex says:

    me, I’ve rescued your comments from the spam bin. Problem still occurring then!

  6. 6. AliMac says:

    I’m not sure of the cause but when I click on your thumbbnails to click through to the map the map rarely loads - usually claiming that there are no views at that image. However I can see the image without any problem if I go to regular google maps. It only seems to be when it is framed on the googlesightseeing site that the problem occurs. Oh - and the problem is worse in the morning (I live in England). Otherwise great site.

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