Newer Update The crew is now confident that everything will be smooth sailing for the transfer over tomorrow (Aug 6th) at noon. In an ideal case scenario this would mean the site is inactive for just a couple hours, but I've been told by gammaray to tell everyone to be prepared for up to 8 hours.
Older Update After some considerations we've decided to postpone the migration until nearly next week. There are upgrades to a newer version of database tables that we want to switch to prior to the move, and will need some additional time to properly test and vet this with PHPBB before going live.
Hey everyone, I'm sending this message to let you all know that Neptronix and gammaray have been hard at work preparing for endless-sphere to be hosted by Amazon Web Services rather than the current server provider that we have been using for the past 4 years. You have likely noticed many times that ES would occasionally hang or produce SQL errors or similar as we kept running up against the limits of what our server package could support, and it is hoped that with this move to cloud services we'll have more robust up-time and better ability to scale with increasing size and site activity.
[strike]We're still working to finalize the exact time and date when we schedule this migration[/strike],[strike]We will start the side transfer tomorrow, Friday, at noon Pacific Standard Time, or 3pm Eastern,[/strike]and during this period there will be anywhere from a two to 24 hour period when you may be directed to a static version of ES that will be locked from additional posting, so you'll still be able to browse and read threads but all new activity will have to happen on the new site while the DNS propagation kicks in. Hopefully this won't be too much of an inconvenience.
As soon as the exact date and time of the move are decided one of us will update the subject line here to include that and people can prepare accordingly.
Older Update After some considerations we've decided to postpone the migration until nearly next week. There are upgrades to a newer version of database tables that we want to switch to prior to the move, and will need some additional time to properly test and vet this with PHPBB before going live.
Hey everyone, I'm sending this message to let you all know that Neptronix and gammaray have been hard at work preparing for endless-sphere to be hosted by Amazon Web Services rather than the current server provider that we have been using for the past 4 years. You have likely noticed many times that ES would occasionally hang or produce SQL errors or similar as we kept running up against the limits of what our server package could support, and it is hoped that with this move to cloud services we'll have more robust up-time and better ability to scale with increasing size and site activity.
[strike]We're still working to finalize the exact time and date when we schedule this migration[/strike],[strike]We will start the side transfer tomorrow, Friday, at noon Pacific Standard Time, or 3pm Eastern,[/strike]and during this period there will be anywhere from a two to 24 hour period when you may be directed to a static version of ES that will be locked from additional posting, so you'll still be able to browse and read threads but all new activity will have to happen on the new site while the DNS propagation kicks in. Hopefully this won't be too much of an inconvenience.
As soon as the exact date and time of the move are decided one of us will update the subject line here to include that and people can prepare accordingly.