bmck 117 Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 Edit - what is it with him? This isn't the only time he's been upto subterfugious (?!) activities with me. Only a month ago he mailed me a copy of Football Manager from the Carribean in a shameful and unabashed attempt to distract me from my study. I've my beady eye firmly on him. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete 2,499 Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 I sincerely hope so! Apologies for all the hassle. We've had to do a number of independent upgrades recently. The first, Vbulletin, was necessary because of the security issues. As with Microsoft and everyone else who makes money from licensing software, you only get updates for things like security if you also get the new versions of the software - compatibility for previous versions is rarely a concern, and is often actively made antagonistic to ensure everyone gets the latest release. The teething problems associated with the new software are really just capitalism's fault I done the forum from 4am to 8am to try and make sure it had the least effect and everything since then has been Frankie trying to customise it to everyone's taste. A fairly good service The second, which has been the cause of the last few day's woes, was a migration to an upgraded server on a faster line in an altogether happier more plentiful server farm. It seemed, at 3:30pm yesterday that this had been the first such migration ever to go broadly smoothly and all was well. It quickly appeared that this wasn't the case and I've been trying to get it sorted since. My lease of the server is a hangover from my old web development business, and so any technical issues that arise within its day to day running I can sort out - but in cases of migration between servers and things of that sort, I have to just ask as firmly as possible that the people who own the servers and do maintenance work sort it out. In fairness to them, they've been working on it all day - but, then, that's what I pay them for. If I had more control over it I'd hoped to have got it all organised more quickly (or, better yet, ensured it was all tested and worked first time!) but I couldn't do that in this situation. I just had to rely on them getting it done. They assure me that everything's now sorted and that the migration teething is over and done with. Apologies for the hassle but I honestly had no way of getting it all sorted more quickly. While we count on you being arsed posting, it has been worthwhile because I've witnessed first hand in the past week how much more f*cked you'd be with a hacked website, and the upgrade of the server is for everyone's benefit. This is just one site I host amidst paying clients and it would be foolish to pass up an upgrade on the basis that something may go wrong, and in any case it wasn't an option as the old server was running into hardware problems that would have resulted in even more problems. Nonetheless, I realise it's a pain in the ass. So sorry about that. If you all want to chip in I can run my own server farm and have it be my job to do the technical stuff for Gersnet, I'm more than willing You mean funny farm;) Ah i get the Smilie thing now. You have to go advanced. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
maineflyer 0 Posted November 23, 2010 Author Share Posted November 23, 2010 This isn't the only time he's been upto subterfugious (?!) activities with me. Only a month ago he mailed me a copy of Football Manager from the Carribean in a shameful and unabashed attempt to distract me from my study. I've my beady eye firmly on him. Bloody accountants, far too much time on their hands. Who's counting the Caribean beans while he's up to this nonsense, that's a question needing answered. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gribz 956 Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 Gersnet wouldnt be Gersnet with no downtime. Best forum around...11 months out of 12 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankie 8,677 Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 Off again to do some parenting today but I'd like to take a minute to thank Barry for his hard work in getting us running smoothly again. Not only does this take a huge amount of patience and technical knowledge, it takes money and time. To have a few hours of issues per year isn't bad going considering our forum and site is free to use and has no ads to detract from your visit. Finally thanks to everyone else for their patience and understanding while these frustrating changes are undertaken. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gribz 956 Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 I'd like to take a minute to thank Barry for his hard work in getting us running smoothly again. . Its a good job Barry is into a wee bit of dope and drink to calm himself 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zappa 0 Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 Nice one B!!! 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbr 1,270 Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 Well done mate , if it was me it would have been like a scene from appocolypse now with computers and carnage everywhere 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
maineflyer 0 Posted November 23, 2010 Author Share Posted November 23, 2010 Off again to do some parenting today but I'd like to take a minute to thank Barry for his hard work in getting us running smoothly again. Not only does this take a huge amount of patience and technical knowledge, it takes money and time. To have a few hours of issues per year isn't bad going considering our forum and site is free to use and has no ads to detract from your visit. Finally thanks to everyone else for their patience and understanding while these frustrating changes are undertaken. You're only getting away with that sycophantic twaddle because there's no longer a groan button:tongue: 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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