URGENT NEWS - PLEASE READ!!

[Eddy Matthews]

After talking things over with Walter Snowdon and David Allinson, it has been decided to move the Paddleducks website to a new host...

The problems with constant "Internal Server Errors", emails going missing, the server running out of memory when processing data, and numerous other things, just cannot be sorted by our hosts so called engineers. For example, I checked the system logs and there have been over 2000 errors generated today alone!!

So we have decided that enough is enough, and we should move now rather than waiting any longer. The worst of these problems have been ongoing for almost three weeks now, but some issues have been going on for much longer! Out of memory errors have been plagueing us for a year!!

Moving to a new host isn't as big a deal as some people may think - It's basically just sitting in front of a keyboard for 8-10 hours moving data around - But the downside is that our new hosts IP address will take time to circulate round the web, and because of that you will almost certainly get "Page Not Found" errors whilst the changeover takes place. This can last for up to 4 days, so don't think we've gone forever - We will be back, and hopefully on a much more reliable server!

The changeover will probably begin on tuesday 18th March 2008 - And at that point you will see the forum etc will be taken offline, so you'll get a screen saying the system is offline for maintenance. After that there will be the period outlined above where you may get "Page Not Found" errors (which may last for up to 4 days for some of you), and finally everything will be back online on our new host.

So bear with us whilst this takes place - Just keep trying every now and then, until it comes back online. It shouldn't take too long! Famous last words!!

[oldie]

Good luck, and thanks for your efforts.   Oldie

[Red_Hamish]

Hello all, thanks must go to the Admin for the sterling work put in toget our favourite forum back up and running so promptly.

A very sincere and heartfelt THANK YOU


cheers

Jim

[Eddy Matthews]

Well, here we are on our new host server..... Hopefully everything will be okay, but one problem I have noticed is the user avatars - Quite a few of them have vanished!! So if your avatar has mysteriously vanished into the ether, please click on your Profile and re-upload it.

Apart from that one relatively minor issue, everything else seems fine - But as always, if you spot something wrong, please let me know. I can't fix it if I don't know about it!!

[Eddy Matthews]

Ignore my last post about missing avatars - Guess which idiot forgot to change the path to the new server!! DOH!

Hey it's been a long 24hrs - That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it! 

[derekwarner_decoy]

Hi PD's ...& can only ask  ...if there is any signifiance?...as all of this was planned for the day after Easter Monday...... ..& now it has happened 6 days in advance 

[Eddy Matthews]

Hi PD's ...& can only ask  ...if there is any signifiance?...as all of this was planned for the day after Easter Monday...... ..& now it has happened 6 days in advance 

It was? Not by me Derek..... As I clearly said in the first message in this post, the change was scheduled for 18th March, and by my calendar that was yesterday..... Maybe Aussies work on a different calendar to us up in the northern hemisphere? 

[derekwarner_decoy]

 ... & . PD's ......I was still using my 1927 copy of that IRISH calander on OZ  & ....