NOTICE - Forum Offline from 9pm Tonight

[DjPete]

As we will be moving the hosting over tonight the Forum will be offline in Maintenance Mode from 9pm tonight Wed 28th Jan.
The database is quite big at more than 6 gig so it will take some hrs to move and optimise the website. We are hoping to have it completed by midnight or early Thurs morning.

[Batfink]

OMG.. OMG... O!!!M!!!G!!!

no forum for hours?? you trying to kill me Pete? LOL

hope it goes all without a hitch mate

[Hayabusabike]

Is that eastern standard time? ;)

[DjPete]

it's going to be aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallright.
:-)

[Batfink]

I am gunna have a bad bad night......

Off the smokes, off the beer and, for tonight, off the forum

[DjPete]

[DjPete]

Forum back online as it will take too long until the huge backup is brought across.
Just remember that anything you post here after now until forum is moved will not show up on new forum.
It will be lost....so don't post anything if it is really important until we let you know that we are on the NEW server. Prob will be completed by Thursday arvo

[DjPete]

hoping to have the transfer completed tonight..Thursday

[DjPete]

First attempt failed here. Data centre is having a second try. Huge database and files he mumbles...:-)

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second attempt also failed so it is now being escalated for a technician investigation.

[DjPete]

successfully transferred. I will now be pointing the domain to the new server. This may take a few hrs to delegate.

[Zoro]

Thanks for wrangling the flux capacitor all night djpete, you do know we all appreciate it.

[DjPete]

Ok seems we have delegated across for me but may still take time for others. Some posts will be missing due to the time taken to do the transfer. Apologies once again. Not much can be done. We could have put the website in Maintenance mode for a day or so but I think this way was better.