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Warrior Gryphon
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#1 Old 31st Jul 2012 at 1:35 PM Last edited by Delphy : 1st Aug 2012 at 12:03 PM.
Default Notice of extended downtime, 22nd August onwards
Hi All,

Thanks to the efforts of all the donaters, the recent donation drive we ran allowed us to purchase some new hardware for the site. This hardware has now been ordered and I am in the process of setting it up to start hosting the site.

In order to complete the job, I will need to make final up-to-date copies of the files, software and databases. This is expected to take at least a full day of downtime, but probably more.

Please accept this post as notification of extended downtime.

Start: Wednesday 22nd August, approximately 10am CET
End: ~Friday 24th August

I will be keeping my twitter (https://twitter.com/delphymts) up to date with more technical information and estimates of how it's going.

Regards
Delphy

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#2 Old 1st Aug 2012 at 8:54 AM
Can you tweet pictures of the hardware if you're able to?
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#3 Old 1st Aug 2012 at 10:06 AM
ajaxsirius: No, becuase the hardware is in a datacenter in the US, and I'm not.

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#4 Old 1st Aug 2012 at 1:03 PM
What - you mean you don't want to run MTS servers in a spare bedroom over your ADSL uplink? (Says one who knows these woes...)

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#5 Old 1st Aug 2012 at 7:43 PM
I was going to post this in the donation thread but never got around to it.
Will SexySims2 also be moved to the new server?
Or will it be shut down?
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#6 Old 1st Aug 2012 at 7:52 PM
Don't tempt him. I'm sure if we had the bandwidth to do that from home, he totally would, Inge.

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#7 Old 2nd Aug 2012 at 6:54 AM
Quote: Originally posted by Inge Jones
What - you mean you don't want to run MTS servers in a spare bedroom over your ADSL uplink? (Says one who knows these woes...)
Quote: Originally posted by HystericalParoxysm
Don't tempt him. I'm sure if we had the bandwidth to do that from home, he totally would, Inge.
That's what I do for my web/subversion server (but it is over a cable modem); The bandwidth would be Comcast's problem...hehehe.

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#8 Old 2nd Aug 2012 at 12:27 PM
Well, my mommy's birthday is August 23rd, so that'll give me no excuse not to focus all my energy on organizing her birthday party. Gee, Delphy, it was so nice of you to shut the site down just for little old me. .

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#9 Old 2nd Aug 2012 at 4:16 PM
I'm just a beacon of happiness and hope.

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#10 Old 3rd Aug 2012 at 1:38 AM
This is going to be great...
It is nice all the supporters donated a lot of money towards to Mod The Sims.
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#11 Old 3rd Aug 2012 at 7:06 PM
Nooooo! What Will i do! A Whole Day without custom content! I think i'm going to die!

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#12 Old 4th Aug 2012 at 2:24 AM
Quick! Evacuate before it's too late! There's a 100% Chance of Complaints that will be flooding the Delphy twitter! Board your windows! Close your doors! Do whatever it takes before the Complaints rear their ugly head once more!

Best Luck, Delphy! Hopefully the Hound will send llamas to be with you!

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#13 Old 5th Aug 2012 at 12:33 AM
I'm glad you were able to purchase new hardware. I'll have a mini panic attack that the site will be closed only to find it is back up again by the time I'm done panicking. So you know, the usual.

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#14 Old 13th Aug 2012 at 10:22 PM
I finally have paypal so I can donate a small amount of money to you Delphy.
Make this site really good :D

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#15 Old 25th Aug 2012 at 4:09 PM
Does the downtime include the website Sexysims 2???
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#16 Old 25th Aug 2012 at 5:12 PM
It did, yes, but everything is back up now.

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