Hosting and downtime

[Demon_Skeith]

Apologizes  for announcing this so late, but as of Saturday I received a email from our current hosting that they will be closing their doors due to health issues and money issues. So of course without hosting GF can't be up and running so I've been pretty much scrambling this past few days to find a replacement.

I believe I've found a good hosting, a bit more expensive but should be good or better than our current one. The transfer will happen in the coming days and I will send a email on that. If you log on and see the forum offline then we are transferring our hosts and I will send a email once that is complete. Once the transfer is done it is recommended you clear all your browser info and flush your DNS so you are updated to the new servers.

I apologize for this inconvenience but this crap happens.

-DS

 

[Lleyn]

I hope everything goes well. I'm guessing the site will be down for at least 24hrs during the transfer?

 

[J-RAY]

It typical nameserver change takes from 5minutes to 48hrs, Memento. Usually only a few hours though.

Thanks for the update, DS.

 

[Lleyn]

DNS propagation take 24 hours on average. But I think it can take up to 5 days if he's transferring the domain itself.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

the domain is on namecheap, it's just the nameserver that will take time to update. The transfer it's self should only take an hour or two at the most, just depends on how long it takes to move 5GB of data.

 

[VirusZero]

Good luck with the transfer. And I hope the new host serves you well.

 

[Black Angel]

I'm sorry to hear this DS, but I hope that your new host will serve you well.

Sent from a Galaxy better than yours..

 

[ToCool74]

Thanks for the heads up DS.

And here's hoping that all goes well.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Transfer all done.

 

[J-RAY]

Ha, I didn't even notice! You are "fast like running Llama" DS!

 

[Demon_Skeith]

I'm happy this was done during the night time when activity is low.

 

[Lleyn]

I noticed I've been reloading the forum all day

 

[Demon_Skeith]

I noticed I've been reloading the forum all day

Don't do that so quickly, you will earn a temp ban from the server for anyone who does that.

 

[Lleyn]

o.o I only refreshed the page like once every 1-2 hours o.o

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Well that's fine, but if you were to hit the reload button like 10 times in 5 seconds will would end up being banned for like 20 mins.

 

[Lleyn]

No one sane would do that

 

[VirusZero]

Everything transferred over ok? 

Also, does anyone else find that GF loads faster now? (I mean loading time wasn't bad before, but it just seems a bit quicker now. )

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Apprently the new hosting has did something that our old one didn't which should lead to faster loading times. But I am noticing breif moments of slowness that should vanish within time.

 

[FTON]

At least the site is alive.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

We'll always be alive.