Message text Hi,
and thank you!
Just a few notes:
the migration itself was easy, without any issue and fast. In less than 5 hours (at least 3 lost in trasferring databases), the site was up and running on the new server.
All the test passed without a glitch, excluding a little problem in email server configuration, and we were ready to go.
We made test games, test leagues, test registrations, and all the other basic activities of the site, and everything worked fine.
The real issue, the one that made us lose a week was in the system. The new windows 2008 server wasn't really working as good as the "old" windows 2003 server does.
We made every possible test, system change, update and hack we found in the documentation and on the net. Simply nothing happened: the system was leaking memory. By serving around two thousand pages, the system swallowed all the 2 gigabytes of available RAM. 
We fully reinstalled the system from scratch, but it was still losing memory. So we rolled back, we kept the new hardware and installed the "old" Windows 2003. After the system was fully configured, in less than 5 hours the site was up and running again, open to the users.
There was still a little problem with the mail server that we solved it in 5 minutes (we still miscofigured it  ).
Now the server is up since a week ago, everything is working as expected and we are happy with it.
I'm not an early adopter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_Adoption_LifeCycle ), I usually move the the last available release of the various technology after more than a year from its release. This save me from all the possible issue a brand new software usually have. But in this case I went against this unwritten rule.
This helped me remember why I'm not an early adopter!
Have fun,
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