Forum News

[sam]

Our hosting service is migrating our site to a better server. This will ensure better Security encryption. The process will take 6 hours and the forum is likely to be shut during that time.

Maintenance Window:

Day and Date  : 21st April 2017
Start Time: 8AM IST / 2:30AM GMT
Duration: 6hrs
Affected Services : All services will be down.

Inconvenience to members is sincerely regretted

[Shanny]

Thanks for the heads-up, Sam. Maybe I'll sleep through it . . .   

[bigskygal]

Thanks for letting us know.  I' with Shanny, I'll probably be sleeping through it!

[skb]

I think this will not affect our US members. It will be night time there.

[rocky]

Thanks for the advance notice Sam. I will try and post early tomorrow or maybe after we go online again.

[skb]

There's still a few hours to go and I am already experiencing lot of difficulties and 503 server errors. Hope this is over soon.

[walkerwally1]

I was unable to get past the 503 error all morning and finally cleared my IE cookies and then all was good.  May be why some others are not posting but I don't know if this is a fix or coincidence.

[walkerwally1]

Coincidence I think.  I am able to access the site and post but it is unusually slow.  I am sure it will get better but for now it takes patience.

[Grammabear]

I got the 502 error all morning.

[skb]

Coincidence Wally. Some times a clearing of cache helps in the short term. I've been getting connection & timeout errors all f yesterday and the migration time is given as 8 am Indian time. There's still 45 minutes to go for that. I wonder if the migration is already done.

[rocky]

Correction

I posted in the fasting thread that I encountered no problems with the forum.

Well, it is working alright but very slowly.

[skb]

Working fine now. Posts are also coming up fast.

[Shanny]

I've been struggling to get on all day, but just now it finally began loading a bit faster. Not going to make a judgement until I try a few more posts - this is the first one that actually did load.

[skb]

I think they must be still testing and managing settings. I think it should be fine in a day or so. Because the server would have many sites and if each one is being moved, one at a time, that would tax the server's resources.

[walkerwally1]

Having problems posting while major changes are being done has to be expected.  Today everything seems to be working quite well.