Announcing ALFA infra move on January 2, 2011

[Hialmar]

The central infrastructure of ALFA (website, forum, databases) will move to a new server on January 2, 2011.
This means that everything (including game servers but not IRC) will be down for hopefully just a few hours.

We plan for this to happen at the following times:
8AM PST = 11AM EST = 4PM GMT/London = 5PM in Berlin/Paris = 3AM (January the 3rd) in Sydney = 5AM (January the 3rd) in Auckland.

Thank you again to everyone who donated to pay for this new server.

I will post about this later on to remind everyone.

[dergon darkhelm]

As always, thanks for your behind the scenes efforts to keep my playground open!

[Blindhamsterman]

indeed, it's much appreciated, thankyou to yourself and to zicada for all the had work

[darrenhfx]

Thanks to all!

[NESchampion]

Huge thanks!

[Castano]

thanks guys!

[Galadorn]

Thank you so much all involved!

[Hialmar]

Here are the people you need to thank (beside me but you don't "need" to thank me because I got elected to do this ):
- Zicada for the old website, TSM, the vault and for helping me when I'm stuck with something Linux that I don't know;
- Murky for paying and managing the alandfaraway.org domain;
- AcadiusLost for managing all the game server side of the infrastructure and the vault;
- Curmudgeon for the game server side as well and for providing (and paying for) the FTP servers (DM and Technical);
- Roekemoes for his expertise on the website;
- and of course the people who donated for the infra.

I hope I didn't forget anyone but if I did I'll whip my back and thank them twice.

[Hialmar]

A reminder that this happens tomorrow...

[maxcell]

it's the end of the world...

[Hialmar]

A bit more than 6 hours from now...

[Hialmar]

about 1 hour from now.

[Hialmar]

going down now!!!

[Hialmar]

Back up on the new host.

We'll have some problems with links going back to alandfaraway.org but hopefully everything will be okay soon.

I have asked Murky Majare (who owns alandfaraway.org) to point to this new host. Once this is done we'll be back on alandfaraway.org.

If you see some problems please post here.

[CloudDancing]

Looks great! Thanks for the hard work and your efforts in this process.