Important Site News!!
 

This thread will be kept updated with news about the ISP move and other important events.

-- ProPain and anarres




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The site will be going down at midnight tonight (Saturday) for a few hours, so a backup can be made of the database.

Tomorrow (Sunday) night we are planning to migrate the site to a new ISP. This will involve the site being down for up to several hours, and possibly Monday morning too.

In addition all email adresses will stop working until the new email addresses are entered on the new site. Because of this all emails will be deleted from our old webserver, and everyone's email will be deleted (probably tomorrow night).

If possible please check your email tomorrow night before the move, and check back in this thread for information on how to connect to the new mail server.

There may be short periods of time where emails delivered to you will "bounce" and will not be delivered to you.

Will we be emotionaly compensated for these downtimes?

The backup is complete, my connection was much better than it usually is. :)

This is great news! Who is the new ISP?

Wasn't there a downtime to be expected during your backup ? I didn't see anything. [goodjob] So now we have to expect a real and logical downtime in 24 hours, when you'll try to move the database to the new ISP, is that right ?

And yes, who is the new (Dutch) ISP ?

If you're backing up now, won't that mean that anything we post now will be post after the conversion? Or only if things go wrong?

We've made a backup now for security reasons. Just before we move we'll take another copy of the database and then close the site so no posts will be lost.

For now we have some trouble logging in at the new ISP and the support office doesnt open untill monday, so earliest move is monday morning. We'll keep you posted on that.

The question that's keeping some of you busy: where are we moving to?

We're moving to NetNation/Flexservers where we'll be the first users on a new dedicated server. However it will take approximately 2 weeks for the server to be delivered, we'll be bridging that period on a temporary shared hosting account from NetNation. So in 2 weeks we'll have to migrate again, but it will be much easier as we'll moving within the same ISP.

anarres & PP

Good news.

Important News!

The log in for the new account is working so we'll be attempting to migrate tonight. This will mean the forum will lock down at 23:00 for download. Basically this means you can watch but can't post.

I dont know how long downloading is gonna take, however it's followed by uploading which will take a while for sure. Also some directory settings will have to be changed.

The plan is to upload the forum software + database first and get those working. Uploaded directory will be uploaded afterwards.

I intend to open up the forum after the database is uploaded but before the pics are uploaded. That way forum downtime will be kept to a minimum. This will result in pics showing as the well known red X's for a while. During upload you'll see your pics returning bit by bit when you refresh/open new pages.

However I before the upload directories are uploaded it is not allowed to upload anything as this might lead to unexpected behaviour and possible forum crashes.

DON'T UPLOAD ANYTHING AFTER 23:00 BEFORE A NEW POST HERE EXPLICITELY ALLOWS YOU TO!!

So, lets all keep our fingers crossed that the move proceeds smoothly.

anarres and PP