Posted May 15, 201411 yr comment_50723 I'm going to be taking the site down around midnight tonight. I'm going to be migrating it to a new hosting provider. DNS settings are going to have to change and propagate throughout the web. This may take up to 48 hours. Hopefully the downtime is a lot less then that and when everyone wakes up tomorrow you don't notice any difference. But if not, this is the reason.
May 15, 201411 yr comment_50725 I'm going to be taking the site down around midnight tonight. I'm going to be migrating it to a new hosting provider. DNS settings are going to have to change and propagate throughout the web. This may take up to 48 hours. Hopefully the downtime is a lot less then that and when everyone wakes up tomorrow you don't notice any difference. But if not, this is the reason. What am I supposed to do at work tomorrow?
May 15, 201411 yr Author comment_50726 I'm going to be taking the site down around midnight tonight. I'm going to be migrating it to a new hosting provider. DNS settings are going to have to change and propagate throughout the web. This may take up to 48 hours. Hopefully the downtime is a lot less then that and when everyone wakes up tomorrow you don't notice any difference. But if not, this is the reason. What am I supposed to do at work tomorrow? Work? It should be back up by the time you get to work. In the extreme case, it may take that long.
May 15, 201411 yr comment_50728 Thanks for letting us know. We all appreciate it. And we appreciate your efforts in making this a great site.
May 15, 201411 yr comment_50730 Thanks Rich, appreciate the info and the work that goes on behind the scenes!
May 15, 201411 yr comment_50731 I woulda hulked out if i didn't read this, showed up tomorrow and she was down.. SPUDS SMAAAAAAAAASH!!!
May 15, 201411 yr comment_50739 I woulda hulked out if i didn't read this, showed up tomorrow and she was down.. SPUDS SMAAAAAAAAASH!!!
May 15, 201411 yr comment_50757 If you're using Windows, go into a command prompt tomorrow morning and type: ipconfig /flushdns to clear the DNS cache on your machine. That will force the system to go and ask the internet DNS servers for a new address. It won't work if the DNS server you are pointing to hasn't got the new address, but it's worth a shot.
May 16, 201411 yr comment_50844 What's the new IP address so we can't edit our host files to point to the new site?
May 16, 201411 yr Author comment_50859 We should be back online. Was a fun night. Don't think I'll be doing this again anytime soon unless I absolutely have to. Let me know if you see any issues with the site.
May 16, 201411 yr comment_50866 It was a seemless experience .. except for the fact I actually had to work when I got into the office first thing today. ;-)
May 16, 201411 yr comment_50887 Gonna say same thing. Works on my cell. Not on my computer. Still says it's down for maintenance.
May 16, 201411 yr comment_50890 Works fine for me on my cell and my WIndows 8 laptop in Chrome or IE. The IP address is: 198.89.126.233 according to Google dns server (8.8.8.8). Clear your dns cache if you get something else.
May 16, 201411 yr comment_50895 My work comp is running windows 93 or something. Maybe that's the problem.
May 16, 201411 yr comment_50897 Works fine on my laptop. Interesting that before the change I couldn't quote a message on IE but could on Google Chrome. Now I can quote using both browsers.
May 16, 201411 yr Author comment_50898 It is the same for me. Works on my phone. Hopefully Shaw pushes the updates soon. (And mts if it isn't working there either) The quotes in IE was a separate fix. Managed to find a patch for that a few days ago. Thanks all for your patience.
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