UPCOMING FORUM DOWN TIME

Guys,

Our server company is doing a test of new routing connections this Friday night at 7:00 PM MST. The test should only last 30 minutes. This is in preparation for the actual relocation of the company into a new facility. The move is scheduled to start at 6:00 PM Eastern Time Saturday the 19th. We will be offline for 5 to 10 hours. Half way through the move they are going to start reconnecting servers, so we may be one of the lucky ones, then again maybe not. At least that is what they are saying at this moment. It may change and if I hear anything further I will post it. PE Forums will also be offline at approximately the same time.

No change in the plans so far.

I don’t think PE Forums went offline at all tonight. This forum was down for a little while. So far I have not heard anything about changing plans, so I guess tomorrow night we will see. In case something does go wrong or I am notified of a delay in getting the forums back online, I’ll post on the old PE Forums.

OK, it looks like it is going to happen as planned.

“Greetings,

Earlier this evening, we performed our routing test. The test was a success.
We did identify a small issue with one of our IP ranges through one of our
providers and that issue is being resolved. Consequently customers on that
block experienced a longer down time than expected during this test.

At this point, with the successful completion of the routing test, everything is
GO for the data center move tomorrow.

Sincerely,

The Ventures Online Team”

Things to do while forum is down:

Read an online book, this MIGHT be a good one:

Hang out on the old PE Forums:

Look at some women:

Fill in your favorite link here (or check the Members Pics Forum for a pretty decent link.

Do your taxes early, nope cancel that.

Or do some PE. :D

Well, we survived ! I don’t know what time Thunder’s came back up, I gave up at midnight last night. PE Forums was off and on at around eleven. Anybody find any bugs or anything yet??

The time on our server is off. Once they have it adjusted correctly, I’ll reset the forum time.

Time is set correctly now and the server people are going to have it checked and reset, if needed, once a day now.

VenturesOnline, our server provider is working on the routers/routing tonight. That is the reason for the slow connections on this forum and PE Forums.