Forum Downtime Planned

[Jason]

I am very excited to announce that as a result of the tremendous growth we have been experiencing lately, we now need to upgrade to a higher capacity server, which should provide us with more system resources to handle the increased traffic load we are experiencing on a consistent basis.....And this is great news: We are no longer considered a 'small' site....After analyzing our recent traffic statistics, it's now official that we receive over 1 million hits a month! Yes that's right....Over 1 million hits EVERY MONTH!   As you could imagine, that's a lot of traffic!

On Sunday July 22, at approximately 10:00 PM Eastern Time, the forums will be migrated to the upgraded server. It is projected that the forums will remain offline for a period of 6-8 hours if all goes as planned. However, we all know that sometimes that is not the case, and more downtime may be required. Right before the migration process begins, all forum data will be backed up so rest assured.....no data will be lost during this upgrade process. I will send out an email reminder as Sunday approaches. I appreciate your patience and understanding during this exciting time.