Server Offline during Jacket Migration | Jan 9th 10PM GMT - Jan 10th 6AM GMT [COMPLETED]

[Eudemon]

Hey there folks, our host is awesome in many ways but with awesomesauce comes great flavours and the more you eat the more you grow and when you just keep growing you become too big for your jacket. This is what has happened with our host, as they've ran out of pockets to keep the servers in, so they are having to leave the old one and try on a brand spanking new one with many more pockets and then placing all the servers and such in again.

 

This jacket migration process is scheduled to start at 10PM on Thursday the 9th January and should last hopefully until no more than 6AM the following Friday on the 10th. So please make your arrangements for our unavailability, sleeping tablets, falling head-first on concrete or maybe just going outside and playing with pigeons ....oh wait you could go and feed some ducks!

 

Yeah so, we'll see you when we've warmed up in our new jacket pocket on Friday.

 

As always follow us on facebook or twitter to be kept informed about what's going on.

 

Cheers!

 

turboduck Team

 

didr;wtf: Host is Migrating Datacentres so turboduck will be offline during the process.

[The Compensator]

Now I just imagined a duck migrating from her old kangaroo pocket to a new, bigger pocket. I hope you'll give the duck a good GPS so it won't take a wrong turn and make a new home in the wrong pocket. :evil:

 

Thanks for the heads up.

[Ryzza5]

You didn't say if this effects the hosting costs?

 

Gotta say in all my years of working in IT I've never heard jackets and pockets to describe the migration process.

If you need me for anything just send me an email. :)

[Eudemon]

It shouldn't affect that, however it depends on if they want to move our old pants server to their shiny new jacket. Like I said I'll keep you guys all informed should anything change or our pants become too old and noisy to be used.

[Camel]

Pah, you need to get on the cloud!

[CarMadMike]

8 hours to change a jacket?

 

There's me thinking I was the only one that could take that long. /speshul.

 

See you all on the other side hopefully, fingers crossed the new jacket is designer and on trend.

[Eudemon]

Pah, you need to get on the cloud!

It's something we've been taking sideways glances at. :para:

[Eudemon]

As you've no doubt guessed we are in our new Jacket. The actual change was completed just before 4AM UK time but a self-inflicted problem caused a serious error and confusing issue to arise where some folders in the 'forum' section got corrupted and damaged and would refuse to be removed or overwritten. Thankfully our host is one of the best around and after performing many checks on the server and the file system determined the cause and worked on fixing it. Which you can see they did.

 

Massive apologies for the extended downtime of the forum, but we're back, and if anything the last few hours have shown me a few things needing done and changed in regards to this community.

 

Thanks

[Ryzza5]

No problemo

 

Bring on SEVEN :)

[Ozzmcom]

No problemo

 

Bring on SEVEN :)

[hassan1995]

:yay:

[The Compensator]

:bparty:

[iLLGT3]

Do I get a TDU2 beta tester jacket?

[Eudemon]

Only you can prevent toast fires.