Ian Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Hi, The Daily Neopets will be moving servers within the next 48 hours. We will be moving to a faster dedicated server (and we mean really fast). All of our slow-loading problems and 503 service unavailable errors will be gone! :) The move should take no longer than 3 days (some faster than others depending on geographical location). Thanks for your patience! The forums will remain open during this move. Ian Quote
Dillon Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Thanks for the heads up. YAY FASTER SERVER! WOOT! WOOT! NO MORE 503! WOOT WOOT! Quote
Matt Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 ...and breathe. Just pointing out that the forums will still be operational over the course of the server move. As usual, we have to point it out. :) Quote
Dillon Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Why pretty much everyone knows the forum server is sitting in his house humming. Yippe! *breaths* Well I guess new poeple dont know that. Quote
Zac Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Who ever cam up with the idea of having the forums on a different server is a genius :P Quote
Meeptroid Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Why is it that this board suddenly reminded me of those Comcast commercials? Slogan: Faster Than a Spamming Noob The DailyNeopets Forum This is gonna be awesome! Quote
Ian Posted August 21, 2007 Author Posted August 21, 2007 LOL Metriod I like that. I must just have to use that. :D Quote
The Big Cheese Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Thats awesome XD 3 days is pretty long though :( at least we get to see the pretty offline message :D Quote
Ian Posted August 21, 2007 Author Posted August 21, 2007 DNS takes a while to switch. :( I know. Quote
Superfly Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Is the offline message that one with the blurry meepit, because that should be changed to this one: https://images.neopets.com/images/nf/giantm...ace_notdoom.gif Quote
The Big Cheese Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 No, he lives on any page that doesn't exist and the Server Overload page :P Quote
Xepha Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 The pixelish meepit is scaryy!! *Runs away from TDN site* Quote
Superfly Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 No, he lives on any page that doesn't exist and the Server Overload page :P Well, "HE" needs updated. :P How do you by the way, know it's a 'he'? Quote
Ian Posted August 21, 2007 Author Posted August 21, 2007 Giant Meepit of Peace is to be found on all error pages now. :D Good call! Quote
Superfly Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 YAY its not blurry anymore. Good Job Tj. Thanks. :) I usually try at least once, sometimes twice, a day. ;) Quote
Ellie_Penguin Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Thanks a bunch! The errors were getting annoying. GO TDN! Quote
Ian Posted August 21, 2007 Author Posted August 21, 2007 It will most definitely being going offline tonight. Quote
Superfly Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Do you know when, or is it just tonight? Quote
Stephi Posted August 22, 2007 Posted August 22, 2007 Just a suggestion/question Why don't you have a link to the forums on the "site down" page (if you're going to have one...) so that anyone visiting can be directed here to chat and see what's going on. It will ensure that people that are visiting for just TDN reasons can see the forums and not be discouraged from coming back. Who knows, maybe we'll get more forum members if the site's down. Quote
Superfly Posted August 22, 2007 Posted August 22, 2007 Just a suggestion/question Why don't you have a link to the forums on the "site down" page (if you're going to have one...) so that anyone visiting can be directed here to chat and see what's going on. It will ensure that people that are visiting for just TDN reasons can see the forums and not be discouraged from coming back. Who knows, maybe we'll get more forum members if the site's down. And adding to that, link directly to the Neopets News forum, and Faerie Crossword Answers forum. ;) Good suggestion. Quote
Zac Posted August 22, 2007 Posted August 22, 2007 okay, Im not sure if its down or not....cause I can still access all of the site pages :*...do you mean it won't be updating or teh whole site will be inaccessible? Quote
Samuel Posted August 23, 2007 Posted August 23, 2007 I wasn't online yesterday, but I don't think it's been down yet. ;) Stephi, I believe that having a page up isn't possible (you'll get an error default to your browser that says it can't connect). If we were able to put up an error message (that we've created, with links etc.) then we might as well keep the whole site up ;) Unfortunately, it's not possible - we can't put up custom pages (nor edit the site) during the move. Quote
Stephi Posted August 23, 2007 Posted August 23, 2007 Stephi, I believe that having a page up isn't possible (you'll get an error default to your browser that says it can't connect). If we were able to put up an error message (that we've created, with links etc.) then we might as well keep the whole site up ;) Unfortunately, it's not possible - we can't put up custom pages (nor edit the site) during the move. I never really thought of that... interesting. *is webpage illiterate, just likes the pretty colours* But, I've seen people put up little notes about why it's down and where to go in the meantime. That's what I was thinking of. Quote
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