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[kitz]

Over the past year site traffic has grown enormously, and its that time of year when I look at my hosting requirements. Since the [main] site is now classified as pretty busy.. after discussions with my webhosts,  its been decided that the site would be better hosted on a brand new Quad Xeon server with more processing power.

My webhosts are going to deal with the transfer to new server tonight,  and a heads up that the site may experience a short period of downtime at around 9pm.  The forums will have to be closed during this period to ensure that any data during the migration is not duplicated or lost.

[oldfogy]

Thanks for the warning Kitz.

Now what on earth shall we do tonight, "I know, dust of that electronic picture box in the living room they call a TV and (second thoughts NO) thats just too boring.

[Ezzer]

Oh no, that means...... #dan da daaaaa#

The pub tonight

Ho hum

[kitz]

Hopefully it should only actually be down for a few mins whilst the database transfer takes place... 
but I thought I best warn everyone in case you wonder whats happening.

No pub for me tonight Im afraid - doing stuff "behind the scenes"..  but I'll make up for it on Sat night 

[kitz]

>> Hopefully it should only actually be down for a few mins whilst the database transfer takes place

!#!~%

More later - going to bed!

[Pwiggler]

More later - going to bed!

Huh??  I'm just getting up!

[roseway]

Me too

[UncleUB]

Looks like(by the time you got bed)there were a few problems.

Sleep well.

Ps,did you remember to let the cat IN 

[roseway]

On reflection, I think we should commend Kitz for her dedication in staying with it through the night.

[Achilles Last Stand]

On reflection, I think we should commend Kitz for her dedication in staying with it through the night.

Absolutely  :clap2: and here we all are so it must have been worth it 

[oldfogy]

Nice to see it's back up and running.

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Kitz, just in case you have overlooked it as you have been very busy, but are you going to alter or remove the Notification Site downtime tonight message above, just in case people think it's new or still relevant.

[scottiesmum]

 :clap2:  Kitz ....   

[kitz]

kitz isnt a happy bunny.

I still dont fully know what went wrong - but I believe it was something to do with anything that relied on PHP.

Ive also just had to spend some time re-writing code that run fine on the old server (such as the adsl checker) - but wouldnt work on the new server.
I use PHP5 but apparently it isnt yet installed on the new machine - hence why a lot of the dynamic content on the main site wasnt working either.

A tired kitz + coding != good combination

if ($kitz == "tired" + $kitz_is == "coding"){
 $kitz = "grumpy";
}

[oldfogy]

kitz isnt a happy bunny.

A tired kitz + coding != is not good combination

if ($kitz == "tired" + $kitz_is == "coding"){
 $kitz = "grumpy";
}

A large G&T (or whatever) I think would be in order at the moment.
Good luck!

[kitz]

>> but are you going to alter or remove the Notification Site downtime tonight message above, just in case people think it's new or still relevant.

Thanks for that reminder OF - but it was deliberately left there because there was still a lot of pages on the main site that werent working...


I only finished recoding some of the pages about 15 mins ago.  After I'd done that....  then I removed the front page notification.

lol.. I guess non-one saw the message I had up at one point (around 3am)