Site update
Posted: December 22, 2011, 11:57 am
Gentlemen,
Kid has kind of hinted around to the fact that we are preparing to install a major update to the forum software. In order to transfer everything into the new format, this site will have to be shut down temporarily. Kid had posted that the shutdown would be for about 24 hours. I think a more accurate estimate would be a couple of hours. If it is down for 24 hours, something went horribly wrong...
We thought it would be kinda cool to quietly shut id down in the wee hours of Christmas morning so all of you guys would wake up to a shiny new site on Christmas morning - but the more I think about it, the more I think it is a bad idea to do it then. If something does go wrong (it really shouldn't - I did a dry run and all went well), I don't want to commit to spending all day christmas troubleshooting.
The more I think about it, the more I come to the conclusion that there is no time like the present. I have a few days off now, and am comfortably hunkered down at home for a few days. So I am planning on doing the update this afternoon. The plan is to take this site down between the hours of noon and 1pm central time. It will be down for an hour or two. Please do not post any new posts ON THIS FORUM after 12pm central time today. It won't break anything on this end, but there is a chance that any posts after noon today would not be transferred to the new system.
Kid has kind of hinted around to the fact that we are preparing to install a major update to the forum software. In order to transfer everything into the new format, this site will have to be shut down temporarily. Kid had posted that the shutdown would be for about 24 hours. I think a more accurate estimate would be a couple of hours. If it is down for 24 hours, something went horribly wrong...
We thought it would be kinda cool to quietly shut id down in the wee hours of Christmas morning so all of you guys would wake up to a shiny new site on Christmas morning - but the more I think about it, the more I think it is a bad idea to do it then. If something does go wrong (it really shouldn't - I did a dry run and all went well), I don't want to commit to spending all day christmas troubleshooting.
The more I think about it, the more I come to the conclusion that there is no time like the present. I have a few days off now, and am comfortably hunkered down at home for a few days. So I am planning on doing the update this afternoon. The plan is to take this site down between the hours of noon and 1pm central time. It will be down for an hour or two. Please do not post any new posts ON THIS FORUM after 12pm central time today. It won't break anything on this end, but there is a chance that any posts after noon today would not be transferred to the new system.