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[Kitelife]

Hi folks, just an FYI...

We'll be performing a necessary server upgrade (increase in capacity) in a little over a week from now, which will have both Revolution and Kitelife web sites offline for anywhere from 6-24 hours... In an attempt to create the least disruption, we'll do our best to implement this upgrade near midnight, between Dec 14-15 (Sun/Mon), being back online that Monday morning if all goes well.

Thanks for your patience.

[antman]

nice work john .. we all know you work hard to keep us a float with both the chat room and the forums..patience is no problem on my part

[Kitelife]

FYI, I was able to push the upgrade off until December 14th (2nd Sunday from now).

Better for the other sites hosted on our servers.

[nobodyspecial]

Woo hoo, sounds like fun stuff, Apache servers or what John? wish I could lend a hand.

[Jim Dingsdale]

[Kitelife]

Nothing that tricky Danny, the server itself is in a professional data center, fully managed.

Still takes time and process steps to get the job done though, hence the downtime.

[nobodyspecial]

Aww man, your outsourcing all the fun! lol Okay man hope it all goes well.

[Kitelife]

What, you want me to have all these nifty sites on a server that lives on a normal Internet connection and collects cat hair?

Let alone if there's any problem while I'm traveling... *shudder*

You know.

[nobodyspecial]

nah, just to much corpie training style for me I guess. that and I hear it's better when you can fire the person who caused the crash vs change webspace providers

[Kitelife]

That's true, but I've been with this company for over four years now, and they've pulled my tail out of the fire countless times.

Never fails, tremendous staff, on a first name basis with the owner now.

Very rare for the web service industry, all of the above.

[nobodyspecial]

If you don't mind, what company john? you can PM, looking for a hosting solution for the current company i work for.

[Kitelife]

PM coming shortly.

[Kitelife]

Alright folks, we're back online...

However, the server was restored from backups, which means some of the posts on Dec 14th didn't make it.

Terribly sorry, I expected the latest databases to be used, but my server staff goes off of the back ups.

[Choccy]

However, the server was restored from backups, which means some of the posts on Dec 14th didn't make it.

Ooops, this seems to include all PM's sent and received on the 14th as well ????

lost forever ??

[Kitelife]

Indeed, all of mine too.

Anything/everthing done on the 14th, photos, posts, etc.

[quaa714]

Ohhhh......bummer about that.

Will have to re-upload some pics, etc.

All good to go for that kind of stuff?

[Jonesey]

Not that I would condone gossip but ... I heard the whole thing was just about liberating some server space for "someone's" wedding list database ..... just a rumour of course...

[Jynx]

Alright folks, we're back online...

However, the server was restored from backups, which means some of the posts on Dec 14th didn't make it.

There is a God!
Drinking quite heavily last night I uploaded several risqué photos of myself flying in the buff.
John, Thanks for saving my reputation!

[Stone in Shoe Bob]

right click, "Copy Image"

[Sailor99]

There is a God!
Drinking quite heavily last night I uploaded several risqué photos of myself flying in the buff.

Yes, because of the time difference I saw those as I was eating breakfast. I don't think I will be able to look at boiled eggs and toast the same way again.