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Discussion in 'Announcements' started by Simon Hampel, 11 Feb 2013.

  1. Simon Hampel

    Simon Hampel Administrator Staff Member 20+ year member

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    I will be taking the server offline for a couple of hours today at around midnight GMT (that's about 3.5 hours from now), to migrate the site to a new (bigger) server.
     
  2. BeardsleyZooFan

    BeardsleyZooFan Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Thanks for the heads-up Sim.
     
  3. epickoala123

    epickoala123 Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Its quarter past and I'm still on?
     
  4. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    midnight GMT is 1am BST
     
  5. epickoala123

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    What does BST stand for?
     
  6. Simon Hampel

    Simon Hampel Administrator Staff Member 20+ year member

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    I said around midnight, not on the dot. Will be going offline in around 5 minutes time I gues.

    I assume "British Standard Time" ?

    Either way - going offline real soon now.
     
  7. Simon Hampel

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    By the way - it may take up to a day or so for you to be able to get back online once the site has been moved - there will be a DNS change required as part of the relocation and it can take some time before your local DNS gets updated with the new server information.
     
  8. Simon Hampel

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    Site is now back online - please let me know if you find anything on the site which doesn't seem to be working correctly.
     
  9. zooboy28

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    Instead of the normal three photos at the top of the forum and gallery menus, I am only seeing one or two. This was happening before the server move as well, but only for the last day or so.
     
  10. Gulo gulo

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    something similar to zooboy28's issue, but instead of 6 photos, it shows 2-5.
     
  11. Simon Hampel

    Simon Hampel Administrator Staff Member 20+ year member

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    Yes, I'm aware of this issue. It arose as a result of some of the optimisations I was trying to implement the other day to improve site performance. I'll see if I can work out what the problem is and fix it - it is unrelated to the server move today.
     
  12. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    British Summer Time, but in fact I was a month early so you are actually still on GMT.
     
  13. epickoala123

    epickoala123 Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    That's been happening to me for the last few days too.:confused: