And We Are Back...

[expanda]

Hi all, apologies but since 9pm last night the site has been intermitently available due to an upstream issue with our webhost.

From everyone at Expandasdownunder we apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Thanks everyone for your parience!

 

[chartrock]

Thank you Expanda. I thought I had been locked out for some indiscretion. :whip:

 

[expanda]

No lockout yet
Although it can be arranged!!! :rockon:


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Just an update, since the outage last night we may experience some more intermittent issues today.

Finally this evening from 9pm - 5am we will be moving the site to a new home so there will be some more down time as we change over from one box to another.

Apologies in advance for the downtime but we do need to make the move to a new server to cope with increased usage and capacity of the site.

I will be making every effort to ensure data integrity but if anyone has any questions please feel free to email / pm me etc.

Thanks for your patience!!!!

 

[chartrock]

Thanks for the advance warning, Expanda. Our numbers are sure growing, which is great, so I can see the need for an upgrade. Your effort and work on running the forum are very much appreciated. :first:

 

[MolongMick]

Thanks for the advance warning, Expanda. Our numbers are sure growing, which is great, so I can see the need for an upgrade. Your effort and work on running the forum are very much appreciated. :first:

Ditto, I totally agree. Well done.

 

[Matty4]

I third those sentiments above!!!

Was disappointed I couldn't get my fix at work last night. Had to find another way to occupy my time, like doing work!!

 

[Deano]

I fourth those comments above. Here I am at Maaroom near Maryborough Qld and I thought the 3G service on the iPad was playing up. It's good to hear the site is growing. It's such a pleasure to surf.
Will post photos of our getaway later.
Cheers Deano

 

[expanda]

Thanks for the kind comments everyone.....

I was sweating a bit yesterday, but we are back now and the server changes are done.

Apologies to everyone for the extended delay in the change over but things did not run as smoothly as hoped.

All things considered we lost no content at all so everything is here as it was when we shut down the site and commenced the change over.

Thanks again to everyone for your kind words and patience over the last 24 hours!!!

 

[cancan]

good to see its all back up and running....and i can now get my fix back up

 

[Burnsy]

Glad it's back, thanks expanda!

 

[relgate]

Well done expanda.

 

[Tailor]

Great to have a explanation expanda, and having to look after our server and systems I understand the stress you feel when you go offline and can't let everyone know what's happening.

Great, well managed site, thanks.

 

[Capt. Gadget]

Thanks Expanda I was starting to get withdrawal symptoms

 

[salsimo]

Yeah missing it to

 

[MolongMick]

good to see its all back up and running....and i can now get my fix back up

Thanks Expanda I was starting to get withdrawal symptoms

Yeah missing it to

These pretty much sum up my feelings over the last 24 hours.

Thanks Expanda, feeling sane again.

 

[cruza driver]

Great job Mate, I can see it would have been very stressfull :typing:

 

[relgate]

I would like to see some stats on how many users tried to log in during the down time. I reckon I made about 50 attempts!