• June 17, 2009 vDream Finds A New Home

    05:24pm by Lijen (Site)

    Due to our recent growth, vDream Racing officially has a new home! Late last night we migrated to a new hosting company called Voxel. We believe that this move will help us scale in the next few months. Since last night our new servers have been performing beautifully. The transition has been great, so I thought I would do a quick blog post to plug our new home. It’s about to get a little nerdy, so if you’re not interested in techy stuff, stop reading here. Here are the main reason’s why we switched:

    1. Included sys admin support – I’m a programmer, not a sysadmin, and that has always been a bottleneck for us. Voxel provides us with 24 sys admin support, so if its 3AM and I need something installed its no problem
    2. Dedicated boxes – We’ve moved off of 3 shared Joyent accelerators to 2 dedicated, beef balls at Voxel. The main bottleneck of our app has historically been memory, so were getting a decent overall RAM upgrade in this new setup
    3. CDN (Content Distribution Network) – vDream is a very image heavy site. One of our main complaints recently is that our images load too slowly. Voxel has a very nicely CDN that will allow us vastly improve image load times drastically.
    4. Price – We got all of this at a comparable price to our previous hosting company.



  • June 17, 2009

    Nice, the site feels much faster!

    - 10:09pm

    by CDawg

  • June 18, 2009

    why dont ye bring n more cars like a honda crx or a toyta corola twin cam or honda civic box shape doch vtec

    - 10:07am

    by paddy

  • June 18, 2009

    i love this game have nice day

    - 06:48pm

    by hames

  • June 19, 2009

    If this means that when vDream has a million users, it will still run fast… Way to go!

    - 05:06pm

    by Crog

  • June 19, 2009

    Cool, anyway its me Andrew James… http://vdream.com/blog/browse?page=5

    The Mustang and activity winner whole nine yards, (Yeah I brag)

    Anyhow, been a few months or so since I last got on and my FB got deactivated and whole lota of other shit so I got a myspace and new vDream profile… Starting from scrath really sucks but if yall see a white and black Dodge Neon with owner Andrew James its me and lookin good… :P Lol. Just an FYI to give yall an iniative to challenge me hopefully lol.

    - 06:05pm

    by A.J.

  • June 19, 2009

    To clarify… http://vdream.com/blog/blog_comments/141#comments

    Yeah I’ll admit I’m full of myself sometimes… XD

    - 06:11pm

    by efyjsle

  • June 19, 2009

    Damn, wrong typing field lol…

    - 06:12pm

    by A.J.

  • June 22, 2009

    I don’t know about you guys, but since yesterday vDream has been SLOW. Every other page runs fine, but when I hit the vDream icon, it can take up to 2 minutes just to load a new random challenge. What’s going on?

    - 10:38am

    by Anonymous

  • June 22, 2009

    yep, i’ve noticed things are a bit funky also! it was super quick for a while but now it’s starting to get pretty buggy..

    - 06:45pm

    by Luke

  • June 23, 2009

    seems better now..

    - 02:59am

    by Luke

  • June 29, 2009

    So how bout for the “need more money” section, just have part tickets available by themselves, because thats all i want, i dont need vdollars, nor the monthly collectable, i jus need part tickets, so how bout that?

    - 04:39am

    by Tambo

  • July 28, 2009

    okay so i just add the app on face book and it says step one buy a car but the game wont let me buy a car

    - 01:03am

    by sm0ken_420@hotmail.com