Downtime Jan 3.... Wed Morning

[jagowar]

Me and vly have been planning to do this for a while but keep putting it off so Im going to do it myself on wed morning when I am at work and will be bored (assuming i get all the backed up work done monday)

During that time we will be restarting the server once to apply some OS updates which have been bugging us to restart the server.

Also going to upgrade vbulletin to the latest version which has a few small additions but nothing major to the part people see but alot of changes on the admin side. And also will make a small change to our webserver to allow us to start another project vly has been wanting to start working on.

Total time should be ~30 mins but could take as long as an hour so be warned if you cant access the site you will know why.

[hmiles619]

what's the project....i wanna know i wanna know :drool:

Now when you say wednesday morning...do you mean 8am ish or more like the time when I would be on...say...3 am

[jagowar]

anywhere from 8-10:30 AM.

[TwelfthAG]

Damn, you need to get it done before 10:00, that's when I wake up :D

[hmiles619]

8-10:30 is perfect...i won't be up til 1 or 2

[Pumchavas28]

What will we do... where will we go.... NO!!!!!!!!!!

Lol.... that's cool man....

[jagowar]

thats why you are getting the advanced warning :)... so you can find something to do.

[Loftin]

8-10:30 is perfect...i won't be up til 1 or 2

Same here.

[jagowar]

just a reminder the downtime is tomorrow morning :)

[CoolaidWade]

anywhere from 8-10:30 AM.


Cool. I won't be up yet. I'm glad all of you are willing to wake up early and take care of the world's problems and let me sleep in every day and fire up auto-pilot. :rep:

[jagowar]

I have to be up... have to go back to work tomorrow morning ;)

Might as well do some server stuff since I have to be up anyways.

[jagowar]

well that sucked.... finally got all the changes made so everything should be back to normal (but i have to check a few things still).

I didnt revert the whole theme this time (and made the changes it was supposed to) so if anything doesnt work lmk.

[Loftin]

I just woke up. I don't notice any changes.

[jagowar]

There never was going to be much change in the front end of the site... it was mainly security updates to keep the server more secure as well as our users (the cookie update)





Changes of Note Since vBulletin 3.6.0


Admin CP News System - additional information beyond the latest version can now be delivered to you when you visit your admin control panel. We will be using this system to make you aware of product updates and other important company information. Once you have read a piece of news, you can "dismiss" it so it won't appear again.
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[zrf2002]

that tells me nothing.... english please?