2007/8 Forum Downtime Announcements

[roscoe36]

IMPORTANT!

Our first round of summer maintenance is scheduled for this Saturday (June 23). I am expecting no less than 6 hours of downtime to accomplish several important security updates, backup the forums and perform routine maintenance.

Expect the forum to be down between 6:00AM and 2:00PM, UTC/GMT -4.

Thanks in advance for your patience and understanding.

[roscoe36]

That's the gig my friend. A house is only as strong as it's foundation.

Thank you.

[roscoe36]

Today's scheduled downtime is now complete. Thanks for your patience and understanding while the board was unavailable.

Without getting too technical, the following work was accomplished.

• Security Patches to the forum
• Extensive Database maintenance
• Upgrade of existing and removal of discontinued forum features
• General cleanup of extraneous files
• Complete rebuild of the "Similar Threads" listings to increase relevancy

Note:

No changes to usability should be evident however, members are always advised to click RELOAD/REFRESH on their browser when any maintenance is completed. This insures that the forum graphics and files in your browser cache are up to date.

An announcement about further maintenance will follow in the near future. This is going to be a busy offseason.

[roscoe36]

There will be an hour of scheduled downtime, Sunday June 24th between 8:30 and 10:00 AM.

I don't anticipate this will go as long as scheduled, however you should expect the forums to be unavailable during this period.

I apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.

[roscoe36]

Downtime and announcement discussion moved here

http://www.pistonsforum.com/feedback...iscussion.html

Thanks.

[roscoe36]

As an update, the forum clock has been out of whack for awhile. I have received numerous PMs about this, and we will attempt to get it fixed during the night of June 23rd/24th when forum traffic is at it's lowest.

Discussion on this and any other downtime topics can be made here
http://www.pistonsforum.com/feedback...iscussion.html

[roscoe36]

Forum Clock should now be fixed.

Short downtime still scheduled for tomorrow AM.
http://www.pistonsforum.com/98349-post4.html

[roscoe36]

This afternoon, for approx. 1 hour, the forum was unavailable or offline. This was not a planned downtime.

What was originally though to be a network issue between the data center and the rest of the internet, turned out to also be a problem with our server itself.

After tech support ordered a manual reboot of the server, it appears we are back up and things are running well.

If you notice any issues, please PM me.

Thanks for your patience and understanding.

[roscoe36]

Very important downtime notice!

Labor Day weekend 2007 is the ideal time both for me, and for the community to make sure we are updated and prepared for the coming NBA season.

At this time, expect the forums to be unavailable in the early AM (GMT-5) on Saturday September 1st and Sunday September 2nd.

More information will follow as we approach the scheduled maintenance time.

Feel free to post any questions or concerns here,
http://www.pistonsforum.com/feedback...iscussion.html

Thank you for your attention!

[roscoe36]

Downtime is scheduled for 9 AM to 12 PM Eastern (GMT-4) Saturday September 1st, 2007.

The board will be unavailable during this time.

Upgrades will be performed to the chat and other subsystems.

Maintenance will include cleanup (deleted threads, posts, users) and updates (similar threads, user profiles etc.)

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Downtime is scheduled for 8 AM to 1 PM Eastern (GMT-4) Sunday September 2nd, 2007.

The board will be unavailable during this time.

Upgrades will be performed on the forum software. This is a major upgrade and may take longer than expected. Once started, it has to be worked on until it is fully completed.

Thanks in advance for your understanding and patience.

Feel free to post any questions or concerns here,
http://www.pistonsforum.com/feedback...iscussion.html