David on 22/2/2010 at 19:13

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Well, we've been on our Fancy New Server for a year now, so we'll be moving the FNS to a host in the US for ease of payment and because we've found a pretty rockin' deal which will save us about seventy bucks a month on what we're currently paying. It is a lower spec, but I think it'll be sufficient. If it turns out that it's not, we can upgrade the specs of the various components without a penalty charge, which is nice. The host is the US version of the host we're currently with, and I've absolutely no complaints about the service we've received in the past year.

This does, of course, mean there will be some downtime, however we are hoping it will be as minimal as possible as we'll have both servers active for a period of time.

The downtime should be as long as it takes to transfer the forum database from one server to the other and it get it imported onto the new server's database. A few hours at most.

This will all occur within the next week, as that's about as much time as we have left on our current FNS before the next billing cycle.

Thanks!

BrokenArts on 22/2/2010 at 19:57

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What is FNS? What about the DSN issues the forum has been plagued with lately? I know Sam was still dealing with that.

Tannar on 22/2/2010 at 21:08

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Good news. I hope the new service works out. Good luck with the transfer and thanks for all the work.

Enchantermon on 22/2/2010 at 22:31

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Good luck! :)

Ravenus1 on 22/2/2010 at 23:50

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see you then ;)