Maintenance - 11 January 2012 - Postponed
Posted: 03 Jan 2012, 16:32
Good practice says to keep software patched to the latest version. A new version of the forum software has been released, which makes it is a nice oppertunity to schedule downtime for a patch, and an upgrade of the machine.
Sherlock, you know you just upgraded, don't you? Yes we did just upgrade. However, after we upgraded we found out that we were indirectly impacted by DDoS attacks, even when not issued against our machine. For that particular reason, we move away from the existing shared infrastructure (through virtual machines) to dedicated hardware. This involves changing an IP address, which requires downtime anyway.
I am planning to take the forum offline for maintenance, 11 January 2012 at 09:00 Central European Time. The upgrade is expected to take less then 3 hours, so around lunch time the forum should be back online. There will be a page available tracking the upgrade, which will be posted on Freegold Capital. For your convenience, during the time of the upgrade the url freegoldforum.com will automatically redirect you to the upgrade page posted on Freegold Capital.
Sherlock, you know you just upgraded, don't you? Yes we did just upgrade. However, after we upgraded we found out that we were indirectly impacted by DDoS attacks, even when not issued against our machine. For that particular reason, we move away from the existing shared infrastructure (through virtual machines) to dedicated hardware. This involves changing an IP address, which requires downtime anyway.
I am planning to take the forum offline for maintenance, 11 January 2012 at 09:00 Central European Time. The upgrade is expected to take less then 3 hours, so around lunch time the forum should be back online. There will be a page available tracking the upgrade, which will be posted on Freegold Capital. For your convenience, during the time of the upgrade the url freegoldforum.com will automatically redirect you to the upgrade page posted on Freegold Capital.