Update #3
Well it seems some people are confused so, just to let you know there will not be any more downtime. I have finished most of the maintenance part of upgrade project and we are just waiting for Vbulletin 3.7 to become 'stable' software. I will let everyone know when that happens. In my opinion it wont be until at least the end of February that 3.7 will be rolled out on ATRL.net so we have sometime before then
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Update #2
1/14/2008 at 8:15 PM
You may notice at times the pages load slow, this is because I havent installed the caching agent yet, but will soon. So until then it may load a little slow (not much). Today I started tweaking the beta version of the software so we can a head start on it before it goes gold. It is still in Beta 3, so lets hope they go gold soon
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Well you may have noticed some down time recently. We Have been hard at work trying to prevent this but the time has come to do some upgrades. First I will be upgrading some of the software that is critical for the server to run. That is the first phase of upgrade project. The second part of the upgrade project you will notice the change directly. This is because we will be upgrading of version of the forum software from our current 3.5.4 to the much newer and nicer 3.7 a list of features can be found at
http://www.atrl.net/upgrade.php
As of now I have no planned date for phase 2 of this project, currently 3.7 is still in the beta testing, and is not recommended to sites with larger user databases like ours. I will keep you guys informed on the progress of it as it comes out.
The site will be up and down during those times, and may or may not be usable. I will try my hardest to get it done as quickly as possible but it just all depends on how many problems I have while doing this project. I have taken the whole day (Wednesday Jan 9) off, and will be working the whole day to tweak the server so we encounter less of these problems. This is a good sign though it means we are growing here at atrl.net, and growth will help us all.
If you guys have any questions or comments or suggestions on any of this upgrade project or anything at all feel free to contact me at webmaster @ atrl.net (without the spaces of course) I look forward to seeing all you guys around here during 2008, and hope that everyone has a wonderful 2008
Joe