The last outage had nothing to do with the site migration away from the current hosting company. We are literally, technically right in the middle of the project as I type this. We hope to be off the current companies servers in under 48 hours, and we are trying for 24 hours. Until that time we just hope the current company can keep us up long enough to leave them (though it might not matter, depends on the way the servers are configured.) All of the down time has had to do with the current company. The new company we are working with actually communicates...We might have a small hiccup or two, concerning being able to post but that is about it......see below...
WE are fortunate to have some really great guys on the site who have pitched in to help. Chris Brow.ne helped a ton and now Steve Freed.man is helping, along with Brian McQueen ready to help too....Steve is part of the hobby renowned
Simple Auction Site (and I found out today he is a type card collector too, how cool is that!!). They do fabulous work in the hobby and I am proud to be associated with them. Here is a blurb on the migration, from Steve-
What to expect from the migration:
Once the new server comes online (expected to be tomorrow, 4/18), we will begin the migration of the data. Starting around midnight tomorrow, we will be locking down the current system so that no new posts can occur. We will then begin copying the data from the old system to the new one. This should take 8 hours or less given the amount of data that needs to be moved. After that, we will unlock the new system for new posts. If you come to the system anytime after the morning of 4/19 and the system is still locked out to new posts, you can assume that your DNS has not been updated to point to the new system. DNS propagation can take anywhere from 24-48 hours, but we have found that it occurs for most people in 15-60 minutes.
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