Server Maintenance, Tuesday, 3 Dec, 7 PM PST (Success!)

[Dave Ambrose]

We are taking the site offline to replace a hard drive on Tuesday starting at 7PM Pacific. We should be back up in a couple of hours. During this time, neither the main site or the forums will be responding. 

[crazyjim]

Sounds scary.  Good luck and thank you for taking care of us.

[High octane]

Thanks for the "heads up" and for the repairs.

[Anglia105E]

Good luck with the hard drive replacement.

David

[Dave Ambrose]

Thanks, everyone.

The hosting company is doing the replacement. So far, they've proven to be very capable and competent. This is why we pay them the big bucks. 

I will be taking the forum offline a bit early so they can start on time. 

[Tom Geiger]

Thanks Dave for all you do!

And nobody can say they didn't know with that big red banner at the top of the page!  ?

[Dave Ambrose]

Maintenance is done, and the drive is replaced. Went faster than expected. 

[afx]

Thanks Dave for your continuing work to keep the forum up and running.

[Foxer]

7 hours ago, Dave Ambrose said:

Maintenance is done, and the drive is replaced. Went faster than expected. 

Yeah!

[crazyjim]

Forum is working OK for me.

[Tom Geiger]

Thank you Dave!  It's seamless for me.  I even started out this morning by refreshing the page I was on (and left up in my browser)  before the change.

[Dave Ambrose]

Thankfully, it was the drive we use to store site backups. I downloaded the most recent backup yes, so everything went quickly.