Forum moving to new Server

[o2admin]

On Saturday (15th Jan) John will be moving us to a new Server so the WebPage, Forum and Wiki will be offline for a while. If all goes smoothly it will be a brief interruption. - the system remains the same.

Charles

[kryton9]

Not to pry, but is John running the servers from his home or office?
I had a web hosted site and the server handling was on their side. I am thinking of getting a faster internet connection and running a server from home so I can learn and play with that side of things as well.

I was thinking of trying one of these when I can find one around $50: http://www.plugcomputer.org/

[JRS]

I have been paying $158 / month for a dedicated server at a data center for years. I'm only hosting open source projects and my daughter's recovery blog with no income producing clients. I'm moving the sites to a VPS @ $35 / month. It's the same data center, just a cheaper solution.

[kryton9]

Oh, I see John, thanks for filling me in. If you were running form home/office I was going to pick your brains a bit and get a head start
Good luck with the move!

[JRS]

Forum Members,

At 5:00 pm Central Time USA, this site and the others I host will be moving to a new server. There should be minimal downtime with this process if all goes well. There will be a short period (4:30 - 5:30) that posting will be disabled to move databases to the new server.

Thanks for your understanding and support.

John Spikowski


 

[JRS]

We are now on the new server. Let me know if you run into any problems.

John

[Charles Pegge]

Thanks John, I hope that was painless.

Charles

[JRS]

Thanks John, I hope that was painless.

1 2 3 (less dollars a month)

[kryton9]

Today was the first time I was able to get on, the 24th of January. I bet my DNS cache was keeping me off since you guys were on a few days ago.
Thanks for the switch and providing the forums, it is amazing how used we get to visiting a site almost daily. Nice to see it back up and working smoothly!