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Just had two or three hours of downtime, may possibly have a little more later this evening, and another substantial chunk is likely tomorrow.

Always find it odd when people thank me for the site - obviously I keep it ticking over and post a fair bit, but its the masses of people coming along and contributing that really make it. So thank yourselves as well.

Edited by roddy
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Right, I'm planning to take the forums down for quite possibly most of the day tomorrow, Beijing time. You'll all be busy opening your presents anyway.

Merry Christmas, everyone, and if you're staying up tonight to count down to midnight and cheer - you're doing it wrong. That's New Year.

PS If there's anyone out there who enjoys tales of character encoding woe - buy me a drink sometime, I have one to tell and the brick-wall scars on my head to prove it . . .

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Ay, and there was me hoping I could spend the day browsing CF in order to make it feel like any other day, since there's no Christmas here anyway...well, suppose I'll have to get some wine or so. Then again, 藉酒澆愁愁更愁, heh.

Good luck Roddy! I hope things go a bit more smoothly this time around.

Merry Christmas everyone.

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PS If there's anyone out there who enjoys tales of character encoding woe - buy me a drink sometime, I have one to tell and the brick-wall scars on my head to prove it

We don't want to hear about it, scrooge. Where are the prizes? Who won the avatar contest? It all went to you? Bah humbug.

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Who won the avatar contest? It all went to you? Bah humbug.

We need a poll started stat! , I'm about to take off soon~I need enough time to vote for myself!:lol:

Merry Christmas to all by the way!!

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Ah, so close . . . .

Hit a problem with the server (PHP version) right at the last minute. Am looking into that, but need to pause until I figure out what's happening there. All the heavy lifting is done though. Further updates as events warrant.

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Who won the avatar contest? It all went to you? Bah humbug.
I've set up a poll for people to vote for a winner. Voting closes midnight, Dec 31st.
Where are the prizes?

Remember, Santa only gives prizes to those who have been nice :wink:

  • 4 weeks later...
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Hit a problem with the server (PHP version) right at the last minute. Am looking into that, but need to pause until I figure out what's happening there. All the heavy lifting is done though. Further updates as events warrant.

Expect some downtime at some point between now and the end of the weekend. But not tomorrow, as I'm busy tomorrow. Unless I break something today and don't have time to fix it.

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Progress . . . . slow progress . . .

I'm in the process of moving to a new server, but am relying on the original hosts to do a few things and they've not been able to get back to me as quickly as they usually do.

Anyway, posting's back on, etc.

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Expecting to be read-only or not very accessible from about 4pm Beijing time tomorrow as I move the database (it's heavy, I tell ya) and repoint the domain at a new server. Hard to say how long it will be before the domain is resolving in the right direction for everyone, but hopefully shouldn't be too long.

If anyone is getting bored of these little messages and patches of downtime - me too. It wasn't meant to be this way. I'm sorry.

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