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Cricket Web Server Move - 10th/11th July 2020

James

Cricket Web Owner
Next Friday night/Saturday morning (10th/11th July) AEST time we'll be moving CricketWeb to a new server with a different hosting provider. This will reduce our hosting costs by 40% and allow the site to be more self sustaining moving forward. Our new server will be located in Houston, Texas.

At this stage there will be an approximate downtime of the site anywhere from 8-16 hours while the move is occurring. I'll provider regular updates through our Twitter feed, and will update this thread as it gets firmed up.
 

sledger

Spanish_Vicente
Out of interest, where is the current server hosted?

Also, will the CW terms of service/user agreement be updated to reflect this change?
 

Daemon

Well-known member
quit flexing sledger you'll still log in here to troll subcontinent fans even if cw starts actively monitoring your whereabouts
 

sledger

Spanish_Vicente
Undoubtedly, but the location/jurisdiction where user data is stored actually makes quite a bit difference, from a legal pov. Data hosted in the US generally has far weaker protection from all sorts of things (e.g. state surveillance/data grabbing etc.) than data hosted elsewhere (e.g. NZ, which is presumably where the current servers are based).
 

sledger

Spanish_Vicente
The legality of just transferring loads of user data to the US is actually really dubious tbh (particular of users based in the UK/EU). Just wonder if any thought has gone into it. Pretty funny/concerning if not. Might send a tip off to the UK regulator for lols.
 

James

Cricket Web Owner
Out of interest, where is the current server hosted?
Dallas, Texas. The site has always been hosted in the USA.

Most of the big global hosting companies have their servers in data-centres in Texas for tax benefits and means the move should be faster with the link between the two.
 
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