Forum will be down this weekend! please read.

[Dave Winfield]

My host is upgrading servers and will be migrating all my websites this coming weekend.
April 20-21

From the message I received, the downtime may occur from 10am Saturday to 11am Sunday.
So basically 24 hours.

This will affect all my websites:
papermodelforum.com (this site)
davesdesigns.ca
Dave's Card Creations (davesdesigns.ca/dcc)
papermodelshop.com
madsgrandad funandgames (davesdesigns.ca/funandgames)
and more

Hopefully everything goes smoothly and we won't notice any change.
I, on the other hand, will need to learn how to use a new control panel for my hosting. oh goody

Oh, and the price is going up. Not looking forward to that expense.

[Dave Winfield]

Just got a new notice.
lol now I hear that the downtime will only be 5 minutes.
I guess the time frame is for all work (migrating data) on their servers.

Start Time: 11:00AM EDT (GMT-4) - Saturday, April 20, 2024
End Time: 7:00AM EDT (GMT-4) - Sunday, April 21, 2024

When it happens, my sites should only be offline for a few minutes them!
haha
If you visit, the site(s) don't work, you'll know why.
Check back in a few minutes.

As you were.

[Dave Winfield]

PHEW
I got an email last night telling me the migrations were completed.
I checked all my sites, and all appeared good, until...

I got here.

No here.

The forum did not load. Error...Error

Anyway, I sent them an email right away.
And this morning I got a message saying they had to repair some scripts and now the forum is back.

Yay
I guess I should do a backup.
shhh my last backup was a year ago.