A new home for Calima Saga

Good news this time! Remember the bad news about the website going down every now and then? I finally had the chance to spend some time at home, and I took it to renew the whole infrastructure behind Calima Saga, from top to bottom.

Here are the most important parts:

• New systems everywhere. The machines behind the website were running systems that had stopped receiving updates years ago, and one of them was literally failing. All of them have been rebuilt from scratch on a modern, supported system. The home router got its update too, so those random outages should be history.
• A new website. The old WordPress site is gone. What you are reading now is a faster, lighter site, much easier to maintain and available in English, Spanish and Catalan.
• The forum, updated. The forum runs on the latest version of its software, with every member, post and attachment carried over.
• A new store. The old store has been rebuilt from scratch as a small service of its own: simpler, safer, and ready for the next releases.
• Code and backups. All the projects now live in their own version control server, and everything is backed up automatically, encrypted, and ready to be kept off-site.

From a business perspective, this is a huge step. The old setup worked, but it was fragile, outdated and hard to change. The new infrastructure is far more solid and modern, and a good place for Calima Saga to grow: new products, new pages and new features can now be added without fearing that everything falls apart.

If you find anything broken or missing after the move, please let me know through the contact form or the forum.

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