Site issues update as of 4/19 - Migration plan ...

[barrysloate]

Will the technologically(sp) challenged posters have any issues getting on the new site, or will we not notice the difference?

[Leon]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

Will the technologically(sp) challenged posters have any issues getting on the new site, or will we not notice the difference?

There are 0 changes to the site. As it says above the only issue could be when we are downloading the data from the current server to the new one you might not be able to login for a few hours. I will try to have a note on the board about it. But nothing is changing functionally or aesthetically with this move except reliability. It is purely because of us going down so often AND the fact the current company doesn't return emails, can't be called (they are in the UK but I hear they don't answer their phones anyway), and can't do what they promised on migrating to our own server within their company. In my opinion, and keeping somewhat on topic, they are maroons. (sic) Their Facebook page is quite funny to read.....there are several customers of theirs on it that are as frustrated, or more, than I am. I guess Facebook can be a two edged sword. Anyone currently reading their page won't become a customer of theirs.

[gorrister]

Migration is almost finished

[gorrister]

If you see this message, then you are on the new server - congratulations!

[Republicaninmass]

Hopefully Archive has made it over as well

[mr2686]

There seems to be some missing posts since this morning...hopefully those will come over too.

[gorrister]

Unfortunately, all posts after about 9:10AM ET this morning until the new server went live (about 3PM) were lost. We did not know that the new server company made a copy of the database it was too late.