Important Site News!!
 

This thread will be kept updated with news about the ISP move and other important events.

-- ProPain and anarres




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The site will be going down at midnight tonight (Saturday) for a few hours, so a backup can be made of the database.

Tomorrow (Sunday) night we are planning to migrate the site to a new ISP. This will involve the site being down for up to several hours, and possibly Monday morning too.

In addition all email adresses will stop working until the new email addresses are entered on the new site. Because of this all emails will be deleted from our old webserver, and everyone's email will be deleted (probably tomorrow night).

If possible please check your email tomorrow night before the move, and check back in this thread for information on how to connect to the new mail server.

There may be short periods of time where emails delivered to you will "bounce" and will not be delivered to you.

Will we be emotionaly compensated for these downtimes?

The backup is complete, my connection was much better than it usually is. :)

This is great news! Who is the new ISP?

Wasn't there a downtime to be expected during your backup ? I didn't see anything. [goodjob] So now we have to expect a real and logical downtime in 24 hours, when you'll try to move the database to the new ISP, is that right ?

And yes, who is the new (Dutch) ISP ?

If you're backing up now, won't that mean that anything we post now will be post after the conversion? Or only if things go wrong?

We've made a backup now for security reasons. Just before we move we'll take another copy of the database and then close the site so no posts will be lost.

For now we have some trouble logging in at the new ISP and the support office doesnt open untill monday, so earliest move is monday morning. We'll keep you posted on that.

The question that's keeping some of you busy: where are we moving to?

We're moving to NetNation/Flexservers where we'll be the first users on a new dedicated server. However it will take approximately 2 weeks for the server to be delivered, we'll be bridging that period on a temporary shared hosting account from NetNation. So in 2 weeks we'll have to migrate again, but it will be much easier as we'll moving within the same ISP.

anarres & PP

Good news.

Important News!

The log in for the new account is working so we'll be attempting to migrate tonight. This will mean the forum will lock down at 23:00 for download. Basically this means you can watch but can't post.

I dont know how long downloading is gonna take, however it's followed by uploading which will take a while for sure. Also some directory settings will have to be changed.

The plan is to upload the forum software + database first and get those working. Uploaded directory will be uploaded afterwards.

I intend to open up the forum after the database is uploaded but before the pics are uploaded. That way forum downtime will be kept to a minimum. This will result in pics showing as the well known red X's for a while. During upload you'll see your pics returning bit by bit when you refresh/open new pages.

However I before the upload directories are uploaded it is not allowed to upload anything as this might lead to unexpected behaviour and possible forum crashes.

DON'T UPLOAD ANYTHING AFTER 23:00 BEFORE A NEW POST HERE EXPLICITELY ALLOWS YOU TO!!

So, lets all keep our fingers crossed that the move proceeds smoothly.

anarres and PP

Update

Sadly things have not progressed the wayI hoped, but more the way I feared.
For now this means that we cant access the forum on our new location.

I hope I can solve the matter quickly so I kept the forum on lock. That way I dont have to download the whole thing again because someone posted.

Hope we can get this solved quickly.

PP

(don't care if this post won't upload on the new ISP, and please don't consider that option :D )

Night update :
I'm bored, and am able to connect to CDZ now, like other night owls or American members. I see some people posted some posts inbetween. Wonder what this means, since you kept the forum closed ? [hmm]
That's all for the moment, I hope everything goes smooth now. Laters.

- krys

Is everything okay again?

no, please do not post!!!

We're up again

Good news, the forum is up again on the new account.
Pictures arent yet uploaded but that will be done tonight, so tomorrow you should be free of the [x]'s

Email accounts will be offline untill we move to our final server, ATA: 2 weeks.

We were very pleased to see you guys so eager to post on cdz, even when we were online for 1 minute some of you started posting. Sadly those posts are lost, that's what you get for not listening to our instructions ;)

Glad to see you here again.

anarres and ProPain

Hurray!

Good work, guys!

:beer

I already opened the first Palm.

and I'm not kidding.

Congrats to the 'webmasters'! [shabba]

To all fellow pbem-ers (KR, Beam, 8 game's, DDPP's) please email my xs4all email adress!

Congrats Butchers! Enjoy you Palm and Gin. [drunk]

:D

Yay!
[party]
Had been on cold turkey!

excellent! nice job, throw down a few and relax [drunk]

To all involved in pbems with me: send to the account I accidentaly sent a save from (my msn adress). Thank you

Congrats A & Pp!!!

It works for me too, fucking server !!! ;)

To all my PBEM foes (SwP) : my email address wasn't fucked up because I don't use a CDZ account, I use the same as my MSN address. ;)

Congrats to both anarres and ProPain, thanks a lot ! [goodjob]

Nice to be back :)

[party]

Great news!!! :)

Wooohoooo, that felt like a Rammadan of some sort!:D

Well done guys.

PP and anarres?

Could you please get a picture for me?

I realise you are trying to get all pictures back but I need the one from Yndy's thread in the Hattrick forum.

It shows the league matches to be played this week and I need them to start getting them organised...

Sorry to be a pain.

Melifluous

Tonight we will try to get the latest pics, but this temp server we are on this week is quite limited.

When we move to the permanent dedicated server we will have almost unlimited space.

Sounds like its gonna be cool, but I really need to get one picture as pleaded for in the Hattrick forum here.

Damn Yndy run off with the info and holidayed [:p]

Melifluous

If you can post the url here I will make sure to get it tonight at some point.

Much faster and smoother.

I got a message from "The Cat" saying she still gets "PAGE NOT FOUND" errors.

Since she is in Brazil it is conceivable that her DNS servers are not updated yet...

Hmm, it seems Eldakkar is suffering from the same problem, yet he lives in The Netherlands... could that still be due to DNS servers not being updated yet?

It had nothing to do with Brazil and our DNS are updated pretty fast in here
Anyways, I am back and thanks for worrying :)

So now you have time to play DDPP, ProPain? [:p]

Anyway, congratulations and thanks for all the trouble. ;)

I've read about the upload problems. I'll look into those on saturday as this will take some browsing though forum code to fix. It's been over a year since I put in that code, so it's not exactly fresh in my memory. But I do think I know what's wrong and it shouldnt be hard to fix, just time consuming to find the right line.

Thanks for the offer anarres and my apologies for getting a bit keen earlier.

My new best friend Swingue has a browser that caches [coool]

I got the info I needed to get the matches organised so [my] mini-crisis over.

Good luck with the site move, I realise how much fun these things are and I apologise again for acting like a user [:p]

Melifluous