Server move/upgrade

[AKcoyote]

As White Fox announced in the Fur Den -Huge news coming!!!-, We will be moving the Fur Den and Melody Ohair websites to a larger server on or about October 10th. Basically we need more space to accommodate future growth and cannot upgrade the current server.

In order to accomplish this move without losing posts or images, all the forums and galleries will be locked into a read-only mode while we copy the data. If I can plan and execute the move correctly, posting and uploading should only be unavailable for 3 to 5 hours.

Please watch this topic for any updates to the schedule.

[Walter]

Gotcha. You are doing a marvellous job.

[sweaterdress]

Many thanks for all the hard work behind the scenes. Much appreciated....

Naomi.

[White Fox]

All plans are still moving ahead well.

Will be great to get the move finished.

[Tsiskin]

Thank you for all of the hard work you do on these forums. It is appreciated.

[AKcoyote]

The current plan is to start the move about 16:00 UTC on Sunday. I am hoping to have the move completed in less than 3 hours.

During the initial parts of the move, the forums and galleries will be accessible, but in a read-only mode.

The changes to DNS entries, which will happen near the end of the move process, might take an hour or 2 to propagate and be accessible to your browser. During that time there is a possibility you will be unable to resolve the melodyohair.net domain or that you will be directed to the old server which will be offline. In that case, just wait and try again later.

[AKcoyote]

Sorry about the delay getting this board back online - there was a typo in a password used for accessing the databases that was difficult to spot.

[AKcoyote]

Everything seems to be working, so I removed the announcement from the index page.

If you spot a problem, please let me know either in a reply to this topic or a PM.

[White Fox]

I think that you will notice the site is faster now!

W