TheGovernmentSays.com server updates

After being hosted on the end of my ADSL line for the last few months, TheGovernmentSays.com has moved to a large shiny new server as part of the "mysociety friends and family" projects.

Various other projects will land there shortly, but it does mean that TGS now has reliable hosting. Apologies to those who have been affected by the problems caused by me moving house and the fan falling off the cpu of the box that previously hosted it.

One of the benefits of this is that we can much more easily scale up the processing. A single fetch/process/update cycle for TGS used to be about 30 minutes. And since we rerun the process every hour early in the mornings, that was about the limit.

You may have noticed from the vast numbers of posts today that I've added in all of the missing major departments (about 30 new feeds were added today). I have another 40 or 50 to add when the next major feature arrives - which is versions of TGS for each of the regions (and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland). Various bits of stuff will be added over the next few weeks and months, but hopefully it'll be all done by the end of the summer.