*** Site Maintenance (Downtime)

[Rich]

I'm going to be taking the site down around midnight tonight.  I'm going to be migrating it to a new hosting provider.  

 

DNS settings are going to have to change and propagate throughout the web.   This may take up to 48 hours.

 

Hopefully the downtime is a lot less then that and when everyone wakes up tomorrow you don't notice any difference.  But if not, this is the reason.

[MOBomberFan]

I'm going to be taking the site down around midnight tonight.  I'm going to be migrating it to a new hosting provider.  

 

DNS settings are going to have to change and propagate throughout the web.   This may take up to 48 hours.

 

Hopefully the downtime is a lot less then that and when everyone wakes up tomorrow you don't notice any difference.  But if not, this is the reason.

What am I supposed to do at work tomorrow?

[Rich]

 

I'm going to be taking the site down around midnight tonight.  I'm going to be migrating it to a new hosting provider.  

 

DNS settings are going to have to change and propagate throughout the web.   This may take up to 48 hours.

 

Hopefully the downtime is a lot less then that and when everyone wakes up tomorrow you don't notice any difference.  But if not, this is the reason.

What am I supposed to do at work tomorrow?

 

 

Work?  

 

It should be back up by the time you get to work.   In the extreme case, it may take that long.  

[iso_55]

Thanks for letting us know. We all appreciate it. And we appreciate your efforts in making this a great site. 

[blitzmore]

Thanks Rich, appreciate the info and the work that goes on behind the scenes!

[SPuDS]

I woulda hulked out if i didn't read this, showed up tomorrow and she was down..

SPUDS SMAAAAAAAAASH!!!

[iso_55]

I woulda hulked out if i didn't read this, showed up tomorrow and she was down..

SPUDS SMAAAAAAAAASH!!!

[RagingIce]

What's the new IP in the meantime?

[TBURGESS]

If you're using Windows, go into a command prompt tomorrow morning and type: ipconfig /flushdns to clear the DNS cache on your machine.  That will force the system to go and ask the internet DNS servers for a new address.  It won't work if the DNS server you are pointing to hasn't got the new address, but it's worth a shot.

[Adrenaline_x]

What's the new IP address so we can't edit our host files to point to the new site?

[Rich]

I believe it is going to be 198.89.125.8

[Rich]

We should be back online. Was a fun night. Don't think I'll be doing this again anytime soon unless I absolutely have to.

Let me know if you see any issues with the site.

[voodoochylde]

It was a seemless experience .. except for the fact I actually had to work when I got into the office first thing today. ;-)

[MOBomberFan]

Hmm, can reach on my mobile but not ie8, Firefox or chrome...

[The Unknown Poster]

Gonna say same thing. Works on my cell. Not on my computer. Still says it's down for maintenance.

[TBURGESS]

Works fine for me on my cell and my WIndows 8 laptop in Chrome or IE.  The IP address is: 198.89.126.233 according to Google dns server (8.8.8.8).  Clear your dns cache if you get something else.

[The Unknown Poster]

My work comp is running windows 93 or something. Maybe that's the problem.

[Mike]

Was down on my work computer all day

[iso_55]

Works fine on my laptop. Interesting that before the change I couldn't quote a message on IE but could on Google Chrome. Now I can quote using both browsers. 

[Rich]

It is the same for me. Works on my phone. Hopefully Shaw pushes the updates soon. (And mts if it isn't working there either)

The quotes in IE was a separate fix. Managed to find a patch for that a few days ago.

Thanks all for your patience.