IMPORTANT: Site transfer and forum outages

[benheck]

To resolve some issues with FTP, I am having benheck.com moved to a new server on my ISP's network. This will require me to rebuild everything and reinstall phpBB, backup the forums and put it all together on a new blank site.

The DNS will point at the new server between noon Thursday and noon Friday (central time) Or I can have it switched manually as early as tomorrow night, just depends on how long it takes me to get my end ready.

So at a certain point, probably later tonight, I will back up the databases which include the forums. I will make an announcement just before then, so when you see that, STOP POSTING or you'll lose your data when the new site goes live.

Everything should be back up and fully working by Friday. Thanks for your patience, hope you enjoy the "new benheck.com"

-Ben

[bicostp]

For those of you who want to chat about stuff, I'm setting up a temporary area on my forums to tide us over.

The posts won't be integrated to the main forums, but at least they won't be lost right away.

Here's the link:

http://bicostp.portablesofdoom.org/punbb/index.php

[SpongeBuell]

So at a certain point, probably later tonight, I will back up the databases which include the forums. I will make an announcement just before then, so when you see that, STOP POSTING or you'll lose your data when the new site goes live.

I'm not sure exactly where, but there is an option somewhere in the administrator section where you can shut down the forum for everyone but administrators.

[gannon]

It's over!

[Gamelver]

Hurray!

[bicostp]

I guess we won't need this stickied anymore...

[vskid]

I guess we won't need this stickied anymore...

I didn't even see it until it was un-stickied.