New Database Backend

Tonight we finished the migration to a new database backend. We now have a proper MySQL database, which has a few advantages over our previous solution:

• Virtually unlimited storage (whereas the previous solution was limited to 2 GiB)
  • Through this, we increased the maximum number of stored offline messages to 500
  • Maybe we will increase this number even more in the future
• Better backup and data security strategies

Additionally, we updated our version of ejabberd, the XMPP server software we use. This mainly simplifies a few of our administrative tasks.

This migration should be smooth for all users; if everything went well, you wouldn’t notice a thing.