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Title: Fourthcoming downtime
Post by: Clive on June 22, 2005, 21:47
We have been informed by our hosts that our server is being moved from Nottingham to Leeds.  This will take place on July 4th beween 9 pm and 6 am the following morning and it's possible the forum may be down for up to 10 hours.  The Nottingham department is apparently out of date and is to be closed, whereas Leeds has had all new equipment installed.  It means that the forum should then run even faster and be more reliable.  8)  Please accept our grovelling apologies for any inconvenience caused.
Title: Fourthcoming downtime
Post by: Simon on July 01, 2005, 09:29
Just to remind everyone of the above, which is happening on Monday evening.  We have no control over the precise timings of this operation, as we are entirely in the hands of our hosts, Pipex Web Fusion, but we hope that their estimated down times will be reasonably accurate, and that we should be up and running again by the Tuesday morning.
Title: Fourthcoming downtime
Post by: Simon on July 03, 2005, 22:36
As some of you may have already noticed, we appear to be experiencing occasional error messages, while navigating the forum.  We are assuming this is due to our hosts making preparations for the server move, which is scheduled to start tomorrow night.  

Please do not adjust your sets - normal service will resume as soon as possible!   :D
Title: Fourthcoming downtime
Post by: joudi on July 03, 2005, 23:31
Oh God !!!

I've forgotten that. You've already reminded us, but my memory is so short.

I contacted Sandra especially to ask her if she had simillar problems, (not knowing the cause).    :(
Title: Fourthcoming downtime
Post by: sam on July 04, 2005, 10:33
yes this does seem to be due to our hosts swapping servers so please dont worry.
Title: Fourthcoming downtime
Post by: Simon on July 10, 2005, 19:01
Folks, I have just found out that the server migration scheduled for last Monday, did not actually take place.  I did wonder, as it appeared we had not experienced any downtime.  :roll:  

However, we have now been informed that it has been rescheduled for this Monday, July 11th, between the hours of 9pm and 6am.  The estimated downtime will be approximately 4 hours, which could happen at anytime between the hours stated.

Sorry, once again, for any inconvenience.  We are entirely in the hands of our hosts, and have no control over this procedure.
Title: Fourthcoming downtime
Post by: Clive on July 10, 2005, 19:08
:lol:  I thought that the forum had become a little slower since the phantom changeover.  Before long it will be singing "Daisy Daisy"   :laugh:
Title: Fourthcoming downtime
Post by: Simon on July 10, 2005, 19:38
What are you going to call this thread now?   :laugh:
Title: Fourthcoming downtime
Post by: Clive on July 10, 2005, 20:02
Eleventhcoming doesn't trip off the lips so smoothly does it?   :laugh:
Title: Fourthcoming downtime
Post by: Simon on July 10, 2005, 20:46
Maybe it will start at the eleventh hour?
Title: Fourthcoming downtime
Post by: Clive on July 10, 2005, 22:10
That would be spooky!   8)
Title: Fourthcoming downtime
Post by: sam on July 10, 2005, 22:20
oh shut up you two!
Title: Fourthcoming downtime
Post by: Simon on July 10, 2005, 22:22
Who asked you?  :blahh:
Title: Fourthcoming downtime
Post by: Clive on July 10, 2005, 22:23
:bartmoon:  Thank you Simon!  :laugh:
Title: Fourthcoming downtime
Post by: sam on July 11, 2005, 21:06
:baldy:
Title: Fourthcoming downtime
Post by: Clive on July 11, 2005, 21:18
Was that IT?  10 minutes downtime?
Title: Fourthcoming downtime
Post by: Simon on July 12, 2005, 07:12
Quote from: "Pipex Service Status"

Monday, July 11 2005 @ 09:07 PM
Contributed by: Support
Views: 5

The following Shared servers scheduled to be moved to the Leeds Data Centre tonight are currently being taken offline:

Chromium
Iron
Jupiter
Krypton
Lead
Lemon
Lime (ours)
Magnesium
Mango

We will update this status page when the servers leave Nottingham, and again when they have arrived at the Leeds Data Centre.

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Edit - The servers have left the Nottingham Data Centre.


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Update: 4:51am

All of tonight's migrated servers are now online and responding.

PIPEX thanks its customers for their patience during these moves.

As can be seen from the 4:51 update, it appears that the job is done.  The forum definitely seems to be running even faster now!   :D
Title: Fourthcoming downtime
Post by: Clive on July 12, 2005, 12:43
I think that we now have the forum we always dreamed of but never thought possible!  We have come a long way in six months!  :laugh:
Title: Fourthcoming downtime
Post by: Simon on July 13, 2005, 07:46
Apologies, once again, for last night's outage.  It seems that we were misinformed by our hosts, as to when the server move was taking place.  Going on the information we have been given, it does seem that the migration has now taken place, and we hope that there will be no further downtime, relating to this issue.

Thanks to all members for your patience.
Title: Fourthcoming downtime
Post by: Clive on July 13, 2005, 07:48
The server move which was supposed to take place on the fourth and didn't and was supposed to take place on the 11th and we thought it had but it didn't may have taken place last night but we don't know until it doesn't move tonight.  Confused?  So are we.   :heehee: