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| 8:00pm Weds | Hello. Time for the ATVLand forums to be moved over to a new server and get upgraded. So, this is the downtime. Now, I think this move/upgrade should take a couple of hours at the least. So if we're lucky, we'll be back online by 10pm. But don't be surprised if we're not. As always, I'll keep you informed here, so hit your refresh button occasionally to read the latest news... |
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| 8:20pm Weds | Back up of the old forums has been made, but getting it loaded onto my local computer is a pain! |
| 8:35pm Weds | Woo-hoo, found a short cut in getting the forums moved! |
| 8:55pm Weds | The cloning and movement of the current forums to the new server has worked perfectly! Tested it, it's fine. Now to tackle the upgrade. This is the scary bit... |
| 9:10pm Weds | Just restarting the PC, gotta make sure it's prepped up and ready to do the conversion without having any other programs running. I see some of you have guessed the forum URL, but that's not really helping me. |
| 9:20pm Weds | I'm just over halfway through the conversion process on my PC. It's gone quite smoothly, only one glitch - there were two usernames exactly the same, and the converter warned me to change/delete them. That's out of the way now. The conversion continues... |
| 9:50pm Weds | Done the conversion on the PC, just putting a few final touches in. After 10pm, I'll be dragging off all that data from my PC, and getting it online! Process was delayed by 15 minutes as some friends popped round! |
| 10:15pm Weds | The forum works perfectly on the PC. Now I'm extracting the data from it, gonna stick it on a memory stick, and then upload it... We might be online around 11pm! |
| 11:10pm Weds | Nearly there! Half the database is uploaded, it does take an age! I think we'll be live by 11:40pm. |
| 11:25pm Weds | Well over halfway there now. 11:40pm - 11:50pm is looking like a realistic reopening time! |
| 11:35pm Weds | We are going to be back BEFORE 11:40pm! Give me 3 mins! |
| 11:40pm Weds | UNVEILED! http://www.atvland.net/forums PHEW! |