Thanks Lali.
Assuming the move is successful, our new hosts will be mxhub.com. They're very good about responding to trouble tickets within 24 hours.
I took a backup of all the posts early yesterday, and have transferred it to the new server. Later, I'll try to take an incremental backup of posts since yesterday and see about transferring those. But just in case, you may want to save any posts you made since yesterday morning onto your hard disc, and then repost them if you don't see them when we move.
mxhub briefly enabled a preview messageboard for us, and I saw some error messages. At that time, the data structure wasn't yet fully in place, so I'm hoping that that was the only reason. But just in case, you might want to brace yourselves for a couple of days of downtime for b77.
In case the board is down when we arrive on the new server, I'll be posting updates in this thread:
TOB thread for discussing board outages
Bookmark it
now, because if the board is down you won't be able to see this post to find the link.
In a perfect world, you won't see any difference at all - you won't even know we've moved servers except for an announcement somewhere stating the fact. In the
real world, however, board77 may be rocky or nonfunctional until we get the bugs ironed out.
So wish us all luck!