REMINDER!
This weekend we will begin the migration process of bringing us over to the new version of vBulletin.
I'll be beginning a backup and export of the current site this Friday (Oct 3). This may result in some downtime/slowness. I don't expect this to take too long, but the whole weekend...
We will be performing site maintenance next weekend to upgrade the server software our site runs on. This will bring better performance and more importantly, more security!
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We will be migrating our site over to use Nginx web server software (we are currently using lighttpd). We will then...
As many of you have likely heard to some degree or another, a bug found in OpenSSL on Apr 7 has affected a majority of the internet.
I'll spare you most of the gory details, but the bug effectively lets attackers obtain private data from servers, including usernames and passwords as they are...
Update 3: We'll be upgrading our version of vBulletin tomorrow evening. That's around 9pm EDT Oct 21, 2013. There will be short downtime associated with this.
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We'll be performing some site maintenance tomorrow evening. My window is 5pm - midnight (EDT). Very minimal downtime is...
We need to pull some data from the database for migration testing, so the site could be down for anywhere from 10 minutes to an hour (or more). I fully expect this to only take 15-20 minutes, but it could go longer, just so everyone is aware. There's a full 2 hour period where this could occur...