Server move, downtime

thomas

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Dear valued members,

due to an urgent server migration we will have to close the JREF Forum and all related modules tomorrow Sunday, January 23, 2011 from 22:00 JST (13:00 GMT, 08:00 EST, 05:00PST). We expect the forum to be closed for about 24 hours.

We thank you for your understanding and apologise for the inconvenience!

 

Grandpa Frank

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• 22 Jan 2011

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Ahhh Geeezzz !

That means my wife will have to keep me sedated, curled up , sucking my thumb, darn.

Uncle Frank

 

thomas

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• 23 Jan 2011

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Uncle Frank said:

That means my wife will have to keep me sedated, curled up , sucking my thumb, darn.

Click to expand...

Frank, I promise I'll give you some extra spammers to deal with once we are back online!


We will close the forum around 20:00 JST (11:00AM GMT, 05:00AM EST, 03:00AM PST) and hope to be back online in the course of January 24.

Touching wood...

 

thomas

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• 26 Jan 2011

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While it might take a while for all users around the globe to be able to reach jref.com due to delayed domain propagation it appears that we are back.

I apologise for the long closure of the forum, but it took us (or rather our excellent support team) exactly 50 hours to transfer the entire website from our old server to a new server in a different network.

The reason for the urgent server migration was an impending hard drive failure that could have brought all our sites down in an instant. We're safe now.

If you find any errors or glitches (common after a migration), please report them here.

Thanks again for your patience and understanding!

 

Grandpa Frank

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• 26 Jan 2011

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Welcome back !!

Having JREF back is the best birthday present I could get today!! Let's hope the bugs and glitches prove non-existant.

Uncle Frank

 

Grandpa Frank

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• 26 Jan 2011

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Checking things out..............

under "Calendar" the month is still showing Dec. 2010. In the bottom right of the Calendar section , there is no way to jump to 2011 , it is not listed??

Uncle Frank

:?

 

Jericho Desu

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• 26 Jan 2011

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I'm glad Jref is back, it may have been only a few days but I missed it quite a bit

 

thomas

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• 26 Jan 2011

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Thanks for your kind words, gentlemen!

I can reach the new server on my iPhone, but laptop and PC still redirect me to the old server. Funny!

Oh, and Frank: I have updated the calendar. Once again, happy birthday!

 

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Sabrina miew

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• 26 Jan 2011

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it took 50 hours totale?!?
wel i'm happy we are able to post agian. it was a bit boring not to be able to chat with everyone

 

Hezam

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• 26 Jan 2011

• #10

Finally JREF is back ...........

 

Petaris

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• 26 Jan 2011

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I was starting to wonder what happened when it wasn't back up at the end of the scheduled maintenance window. I'm glad everything got sorted out OK and I am glad to have JREF back! Great job on the server move!