Recent Site Outage

[Drew Dowdell]

Sorry about the recent site outage guys.

 

Our server had a RAID array failure and needed to have some of the hardware replaced.

 

I plan to move us to a new server in the next 30 days, so watch for announcements on planned downtime.

 

Drew

[G. David Felt]

Thanks Drew for the update, was wondering what happened, though Washington was hit with a Hurricane level 1 storm over the weekend and most of western Washington was in the dark for the weekend including me, did not get back online till Monday when power was restored.

[cp-the-nerd]

Excuses, excuses! I want my money back!

[Drew Dowdell]

Excuses, excuses! I want my money back!

 

You will be issued full refund on the amount you've already paid.

 

promptly. 

[cp-the-nerd]

 

Excuses, excuses! I want my money back!

 

You will be issued full refund on the amount you've already paid.

 

promptly. 

 

 

Good. I hope you learned your lesson. I'm sorry for putting on my angry eyebrows.

[Drew Dowdell]

in other news, the new server is coming along quite well.   We'll be on to the new server by Sept 10th.

[ccap41]

Whew. It's back!

 

Thanks for the update, Drew

[El Kabong]

As long as you only need to click once to post you still have a leg up on the competition.

[Drew Dowdell]

Well, I'm all done configuring the new server and we're ready to move into our new garage. I have to spent most of the day tomorrow on the road, so I'll run the migration tomorrow night overnight. We will be listed as offline during the migration.

[William Maley]

As long as you only need to click once to post you still have a leg up on the competition.

 

Hooray?

[oldshurst442]

 

As long as you only need to click once to post you still have a leg up on the competition.

 

Hooray?

 

If you had to go through what some of us had to go through....that hooray would be written this way and not with a question mark:

 

 

HOORAY!!!

(yellow is a happy colour)

 

 

with a couple of happy emoticons...

[oldshurst442]

Well, I'm all done configuring the new server and we're ready to move into our new garage. I have to spent most of the day tomorrow on the road, so I'll run the migration tomorrow night overnight. We will be listed as offline during the migration.

migration...

 

yeah...its almost that sad time of the year around here where the birds fly south...

But...Football and Hockey season is almost here...and THAT alone is worth the leaves changing colour, the ghosts and goblins asking for candy and the birds leaving for a warmer climate.

[Drew Dowdell]

I'm going to start the move at 9:00pm EST

[oldshurst442]

Does that mean the site will be closed?

Because I can not put 2 & 2 together.

It has to be spelled out fr me.

Edited September 4, 2015 by oldshurst442

[Drew Dowdell]

Does that mean the site will be closed?

Because I can not put 2 & 2 together.

It has to be spelled out fr me.

 

You should check back at 9:01pm eastern and find out. 

[Drew Dowdell]

We're up and in our new digs.  Please report any issues you have. 

 

I have not yet performance tuned the new server, so it may not feel as fast as the old one at the moment. 

[G. David Felt]

You Rock Drew, over all it seems to be running well this morning. Thank you,

[El Kabong]

Your posts go up on the first go, and nobody arbitrarily changes your handle.

Schweet

[surreal1272]

 

Well, I'm all done configuring the new server and we're ready to move into our new garage. I have to spent most of the day tomorrow on the road, so I'll run the migration tomorrow night overnight. We will be listed as offline during the migration.

migration...

 

yeah...its almost that sad time of the year around here where the birds fly south...

But...Football and Hockey season is almost here...and THAT alone is worth the leaves changing colour, the ghosts and goblins asking for candy and the birds leaving for a warmer climate.

 

Don't forget half of your fellow Canadians migrating to my neck of the woods (Phoenix, AZ) over the next month or so. Makes the "wonderful" traffic here that much more fun.

[oldshurst442]

 

 

Well, I'm all done configuring the new server and we're ready to move into our new garage. I have to spent most of the day tomorrow on the road, so I'll run the migration tomorrow night overnight. We will be listed as offline during the migration.

migration...

 

yeah...its almost that sad time of the year around here where the birds fly south...

But...Football and Hockey season is almost here...and THAT alone is worth the leaves changing colour, the ghosts and goblins asking for candy and the birds leaving for a warmer climate.

 

Don't forget half of your fellow Canadians migrating to my neck of the woods (Phoenix, AZ) over the next month or so. Makes the "wonderful" traffic here that much more fun.

 

From what part of Canada?

Because Quebecois go to Florida starting from November.

[El Kabong]

Lots of Albertans head down to Arizona and Nevada. I haven't as of yet, but I'd like to get down to Vegas and Scottsdale when Barrett-Jackson is in town.

[surreal1272]

 

 

 

Well, I'm all done configuring the new server and we're ready to move into our new garage. I have to spent most of the day tomorrow on the road, so I'll run the migration tomorrow night overnight. We will be listed as offline during the migration.

migration...

 

yeah...its almost that sad time of the year around here where the birds fly south...

But...Football and Hockey season is almost here...and THAT alone is worth the leaves changing colour, the ghosts and goblins asking for candy and the birds leaving for a warmer climate.

 

Don't forget half of your fellow Canadians migrating to my neck of the woods (Phoenix, AZ) over the next month or so. Makes the "wonderful" traffic here that much more fun.

 

From what part of Canada?

Because Quebecois go to Florida starting from November.

 

True. We get mostly the Alberta, Manitoba, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan snowbirds but I have seen some Quebec tags up and down the I-10 here.

Lots of Albertans head down to Arizona and Nevada. I haven't as of yet, but I'd like to get down to Vegas and Scottsdale when Barrett-Jackson is in town.

Haven't done Barrett Jackson yet. It is pricey as hell and up until a few weeks ago, I never had weekends off to go to it anyway. May try for it next year though if I can convince my bossman to hook me up on a few tickets. If I go, I going to need a bib to hold back the constant drooling that will take place.

[oldshurst442]

I wanted to guess Albertans...

Quebecois...yeah, Ive heard quite a few tell me that Arizona is the place to be...dry weather...no humidity.

The St-Lawrence Valley, very humid. 

 

I will swing by your way one these days...Barret-Jackson is but one thing that I wanna experience.

 

 

 Its the Old West that I really wanna see and feel.

 

Fort Sumner NM, Okay Corral Az. and all that jazz....

[El Kabong]

Yeah, it's a lot less humid out this way-both north and south. Spent some time in Toronto recently. It was nice, but I had forgotten about the humidity.