Scheduled downtime - 10AM local time on Monday, Jan. 17, 2011

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  1. Daniel Mosquin

    Daniel Mosquin Paragon of Plants UBC Botanical Garden Forums Administrator Forums Moderator 10 Years

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    Hi all,

    The forums will be down beginning around 10am (local time) on Monday.

    We are moving the entire BG site to a new server.

    For the forums, this means:

    1) transferring the forums data to a new database server (we're hoping fewer connection errors)
    2) syncing the attachment data across servers (this process takes around an hour)
    3) me mucking about in the code a little bit to get things in their proper places

    We've done a couple dry runs and think we have the process working smoothly, so the forums _should_ only be down for a couple hours.

    Here's the kicker, though -- since we're moving to a new server, the domain name botanicalgarden.ubc.ca also needs to point to the new server. This information has to propagate around the web to your local Internet Service Provider, a process that may take a couple days. So, you may find you can't access the forums for a couple days, even though you may be receiving notification emails that others have responded to your thread.

    When we had the downtime in December, for 80% of the people the changeover of name information took only a few hours, so you may or may not be affected.

    Daniel
     

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