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derrickito

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 10:56 am

now with 50 percent more EVIL Joined: 22 Jul 2005 Posts: 10566

your unfriendly point83 tech department just wants to let you know that we're moving the website to a new server. process will start later in the day today. doing as much as we can on friday (then gone all weekend) and picking up the pieces and finishing everything on monday/tuesday

if the forums are offline for a day or 3, that's why.

and since im shameless... ive been paying the cost for hosting/domains and all that for the last few years because the cost hasnt been too high... but our forum traffic has been noticed by the servers we've been on and they got a little peeved (our forums put alot of stress on the server resources). that prompted the switch. i just pushed out another 120 bucks for the next year for this new server space, if anyone wants to help out with that, you can send a couple bucks by clicking on this link, then hitting donate:

http://www.point83.com/serverfund.html. instead of buying a pitcher of beer next time you go out, maybe think about putting it towards the server cost? buy the website a beer so to speak, for all the great things it's done for you over the last few years :)

ps, another way to say thanks for the work they put in on the site and keeping things online is to buy either henry or lee a beer when you see them.

MikeOD

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 11:22 am

Joined: 04 Feb 2006 Posts: 545

derrickito wrote:

ps, another way to say thanks for the work they put in on the site and keeping things online is to buy either henry or lee a beer when you see them.

I suggest everyone do this all at once on the next ride. Those guys can drink a lot of beer, but 20 of them? Beer-owned -- bOwned!

pete jr

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 12:19 pm

Joined: 13 Dec 2005 Posts: 1930 Location: balls deepx

lee: it's quantity not quality for you, right?

langston

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 12:41 pm

Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 5547 Location: Columbia City

MikeOD wrote:

drink a lot of beer, but 20 of them? Beer-owned -- bOwned!

Henry was telling me how much he liked getting boned...

laura

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 12:46 pm

Joined: 22 Jun 2007 Posts: 1050 Location: wherever the dance party is

derrickito wrote:

ps, another way to say thanks for the work they put in on the site and keeping things online is to buy either henry or lee a beer when you see them.

Henry also likes positive affirmations and group hugs.

lantius

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 12:57 pm

1337 Joined: 22 Jul 2005 Posts: 6705 Location: right over

pete jr wrote:

lee: it's quantity not quality for you, right?

only if by quantity you mean abv.

jeff

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 1:03 pm

SOC pussy Joined: 05 May 2006 Posts: 4501

The forums are going down?

How are people going to keep up their 47 posts per day average?

Dark days, this is going to be like Y2K all over again.

MikeOD

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 1:18 pm

Joined: 04 Feb 2006 Posts: 545

Profit margins might rise as .83ers actually get some work done for a few days.

Foo

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 1:26 pm

Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 583

Over the weekend?

I guess I'll have to start doing some of the neglected chores around the house. I think I'll start by evicting that family of wild pigs from the living room.

derrickito

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 2:14 pm

now with 50 percent more EVIL Joined: 22 Jul 2005 Posts: 10566

thanks everyone who has kicked in so far. majorly appreciated. about half of the cost has been covered in the last few hours. appreciate it!

and seriously, lee likes nice flavorful non crappy beers :).

MyNameIsJeff

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 2:16 pm

BOOSH! Joined: 17 Jul 2007 Posts: 2042 Location: Nearest bar.

I think all the hand jobs we give you are payment enough.

But then again, it makes sense to buy you beers as they are easier to give to you when you're drunk.

I mean... I've been told. So i've heard.

Allegedly.

[not gay]

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derrickito

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 2:40 pm

now with 50 percent more EVIL Joined: 22 Jul 2005 Posts: 10566

SERVER COSTS COVERED.
thanks all. last couple people donated and just covered all the costs for the server for a year.

rock!
if this was a church, you would have just all been sainted for your righteousness

20 extra dollars more than i needed came in. ill just throw that towards liquor prizes for this months greenlake race

SeditiousCanary

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 3:13 pm

sorry, can't make it! Joined: 26 Jan 2006 Posts: 2315 Location: Fremont Troll

I, for one, welcome our server migration overlords.

Lutella

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 3:16 pm

Joined: 20 Mar 2007 Posts: 206 Location: all dressed in yella

derrickito wrote:

SERVER COSTS COVERED.

Shoot! I was hoping we could have a telethon.

DJStroky

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 4:39 pm

Joined: 25 May 2007 Posts: 356 Location: Downtown Tacoma

derrickito wrote:

if the forums are offline for a day or 3, that's why.

I'm going to have to resort to crack and heroin to help me get through the next 3 days without my fix of point83.com/forum

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Tacoma isn't that bad... well maybe it is

derrickito

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 4:52 pm

now with 50 percent more EVIL Joined: 22 Jul 2005 Posts: 10566

turns out im going to be around town for the weekend. if all goes well, there may be no downtime at all.

maybe.
but dont hold me to that.

SeditiousCanary

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 4:55 pm

sorry, can't make it! Joined: 26 Jan 2006 Posts: 2315 Location: Fremont Troll

derrickito wrote:

turns out im going to be around town for the weekend. there will be no downtime at all.

hold me to that.

Thusly held...

lantius

Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 3:50 pm

1337 Joined: 22 Jul 2005 Posts: 6705 Location: right over

... and we're back.

phpbb went up okay, coppermine gallery is still offline and we have a ton of photos to move, possibly just over to a flickr account. i was never happy with coppermine or gallery2, honestly.

i'm still hoping to get the bbpress working.

tos is offline for the moment as well. i'll try to have paper copies on the thursday ride for everyone to sign off on and agree to!

Foo

Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 4:13 pm

Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 583

Ah, the Flikr pool is a nice touch.

Also, the search for posts by user feature is busticated now. Looks like there's a query to a misnamed/missing SQL field.

lantius

Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 4:19 pm

1337 Joined: 22 Jul 2005 Posts: 6705 Location: right over

Foo wrote:

Also, the search for posts by user feature is busticated now. Looks like there's a query to a misnamed/missing SQL field.

fixed.

i'd like to point out that debugging phpbb and fixing the damn templates are reminding me why i like working with bbpress so much.

derrickito

Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 4:54 pm

now with 50 percent more EVIL Joined: 22 Jul 2005 Posts: 10566

lee's rocking the administration with hooking up the database for us. thanks lee

IF ANYONE IS HAVING TROUBLE LOGGING INTO THE FORUMS, DELETE YOUR COOKIES AND CLOSE YOUR BROWSERS. should fix it

hopefull i said that loud enough.

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