STORM2K

I hope everyone planned their downtime activites! The STORM2K site will be down starting early in the morning on [b]SundayJune17[/b] for our move to the new server! It's Father's day so take the time away from the keyboard to wish thank your father!

We expect the outage to last somewhere around 12 hours. For the last week we have been running a parallel site on the new server and have even had a few board members helping us test phpBB3. The tests have gone wonderfully (except when Chad broke things) and everyone that's seen the new site seems excited. Additionally we will be implementing the phpPortal system replacing phpNuke and a new Member's Gallery. I think everyone will be pleased with the changes and for the first time in our history we will have full control of the server. What that really means is that when things happen we have direct control over getting them fixed.

I'd like to also thank x-y-no for jumping in with both feet on the technical side of the server. His contribution has and I'm sure will continue to be outstanding!

As we progress through the move and conversion we'll post updates on http://www.myspace.com/storm2kweather Once we're done we'll post the new IP address since it will take the DNS servers a while to update.

Thanks for the "head's up"!

Good luck with the switch! I look forward to seeing the new site!

What did Chad break?? lol

Im excited

Good luck with the move. I will actually be on vacation so wouldn't be on anyway. I lurk all the time don't post much, but when it goes down, I panic Glad to know I won't be panicking wondering what happened.
Debbie

YeeeeHaaaaaaaaw!

Thanks for the heads up!

Ok: I need to get this absolutely straight...

S2K will be moving June 17th. Any information thereafter can be found on the myspace page. On that page, you will place the NEW link, correct?

Just verifying.

Will all the old posts be lost?

Swimdude wrote:Ok: I need to get this absolutely straight...

S2K will be moving June 17th. Any information thereafter can be found on the myspace page. On that page, you will place the NEW link, correct?

Just verifying.

You get a gold star. Absolutely correct.

AnnularCane wrote:Will all the old posts be lost?

The reason it's going to take 12 hours is because we're moving and converting the existing database. All posts will be on the new board. Moving the database is about a 2 hours process. The conversion will take somewhere around 7 hours after that complete. The last step is some conversion clean-up and testing then we let everyone loose

I'm glad this is happening. I'm sure you've been getting frustrated with the board being down. Would turn alot of people away if there was a big system approaching. Good work guys.

Can i pack my blanket? lol. Seriously, Im glad we will move and no more server problems and s2k getting ripped from it

Thank goodness. I have been without S2k for 4 days now and I don't like it one bit. I'll keep my fingers crossed and say a little prayer that all goes well with the transfer. Thanks to everyone involved.
MomH

Moving is not fun sometimes, I know from experience!

I hope nothing goes wrong, good luck!

Sounds good, Chad!

will storm2k still have same domain name?

We will have the same domain name Aussie.. However when we first move you are going to have to use the IP addy.. We are going to try and have it posted on the homepage, our myspace page, and hopefully be able to send out a mass email with it as well

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I'm glad you're making the switch now rather than at the peak of the season (unlike the previous board I belonged to who in their infinite wisdom totally botched things up in early September of '03!)

Hope the migration goes well.