Hi folks,

As you noticed, we experienced some downtime today. A quick database optimization turned into something a bit more and led us to conclude it's best if we replace our database server sooner rather than later.

We'll have that new server online later today, and once it's online, we're going to begin the process of moving the data over. This is a lengthy process.

Once the new server is online later today, we're going to do an export of our current database. This takes about 10 minutes, and we'll likely take the forums offline during this period to ensure there's no problems.

We'll bring the forums back online after that, but there'll be a notice on every page saying that anything you post after that time will NOT transfer to the new server.
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Then we'll do the transfer of data from one server to the other...
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Sometime tomorrow (we hope sooner rather than later, but again, this is a LOT of data to transfer), we'll have the new database server up and running.

There'll be a new notice on the pages once it's safe to post again (if you want to see your post again!) and the transfer is complete.

You are welcomed to post during the interim transfer time, but your post will not be on the new server -- so you've been given fair warning.

Again, sorry for the unexpectedly long down-time today and we hope everything will be smooth sailing again sometime tomorrow.

Best,
DocJohn