Site changes will cause temporary outages.

White Fox · Post by **White Fox** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 2:59 pm

Folks, you probably have heard that we are changing to a better server here. We will be on what is called a "virtual dedicated server". This will give us more room, hopefully make the server faster, etc. With over 7,000 photos here, plus the Library and so many forum messages archived this site has gotten extremely big.

This is going to cause one or more temporary outages in the very near future, and one of these will not be short. We will try to give as much notice as possible, and indeed we have not told most site members yet. However, I thought that I should give you folks even better notice of this due to all that you have been through here.

We estimate the one long outage will be about 4 days, but it could be even longer. Of course, if it is finished before that time the site will be back earlier. But it is unlikely it will be much less. We are hoping that will be the only time it is out, but we cannot be sure.

So, we have some growing pains here but things will improve later. We do not know yet when this will take place, but it could be very soon. Please keep a watch on our "Info Forum" for details. I will try to remember to keep you informed here as well.

If you have any questions please give me a quick PM as I am not here often.

Thanks all
White Fox

Angoramsterdam · Post by **Angoramsterdam** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 12:08 am

thanks white fox,
you are a true gentleman to announce this.
AA

angorasweaterguy · Post by **angorasweaterguy** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 1:43 am

Thanks for the heads-up! Looking forward to the"New & Improved" (for lack of a better term) site!!

ASG

Post by **AKcoyote** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 4:41 am

There is now an announcement in the Information Zone forum on this topic: http://thefurden.com/bbden/viewtopic.php?t=5423

Walter · Post by **Walter** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 11:59 pm

Not like the olden days, that is for sure. White is really a true gentleman.

Joe Al · Post by **Joe Al** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:12 pm

Hi White, AK, folks,

many thanks for the information and a big sorry

that we can't provide an emergency home for the Denizens.

Fuzzy greetings,
Joe Al

White Fox · Post by **White Fox** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:28 pm

You may have noticed from our info forum that the outage has been delayed by 7 days due to some computer problems that AKcoyote had. It is now scheduled for next weekend. Again we hope to have things up and running in 2 to 4 days.

If everything works you will just enter and everything will look exactly the same. But, you will actually be on a brand new server.

Please keep watch in our Info Forum for more details as things progress.

White Fox

White Fox · Post by **White Fox** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 8:49 pm

Wool members...

Please do not forget that we will be off line for most of the weekend at best. If things do not go exactly as planned we could be well into next week before we return on a whole brand new server.

Please watch our "Info Forum" on this subject for further posts over the next few days.

White Fox