At about 9pm EST this evening we will be taking the sites offline while we migrate to the new server installed today. We expect about an hour of downtime... Give or take.

As promised, and somewhat expected, we have been adding on space and performance into system anticipating the increased traffic. To that end we will be moving the whole lot to a new machine/setup.

I am not anticipating any real issues. The hour might be little less or more. We are not just moving these two forums, but 4 others (some many many gigs in size).

With luck we can cut that time down and will come back to an even faster setup.

Then within a week or so we will be moving them one last time to an new internal network here. We've doubled the bandwidth and will be moving the forums to their own dedicated network :-) Just doesn't make sense to move them to the new network before the new servers.

Sorry about any downtime. Cant be avoided and hopefully we can shorten it a bit :-)

Thanks
Alex