UPDATE 06.21.06 11:04 AM:
The upgrade process has hit a bump in the road. We are trying to correct the problem but it may be a little bit longer before the upgrade is complete. This is a vitual part of the forums that isnt working so it is very important that we do this properly. I will continue to work on it and try to restore the forums. For now I have disable e-mail, searching, who's online, currently broswing forums and threads, and Instant message checking (it no longer checks every page loaded). These are all temporary just to keep the server load low.
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UPDATE 06.19.06 10:53 PM:
Over the next few days I will be trying to move the server, if for some reason
http://www.absolutetrl.net doesn't allow access to the website use the direct server address of
http://host18.hrwebservices.net/~atrl/forums or
http://216.120.231.112/~atrl/forums these will provide direct access to the website no matter if the domain AbsoluteTRL.net works or not. Please inform as many people as you can. There is no need to update bookmarks, links or pages. Once the move is complete everything will be the same only the backend will be different.
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UPDATE 06.17.06 09:57 AM:
I have made the decision to turn the forums back online. You should now be able to post and view all forums, with a few minor exceptions. I have imposed rules that will prevent users from overloading the server, when the server load reaches a certain level no new users logging into the forums will be accepted. Secondly the maximum users that can be on the forum at any one time will also be contained. If it reaches a high level it again will deny users entry. If you receive a message that the server load is too high then these are the reasons. Thank you for your continued support, I will continue working on AbsoluteTRL.net day and night. The server move is expected to be done sometime next week, until then all these rules will have to stay imposed. Once we move to the new server these rules will be lifted and AbsoluteTRL.net will be reborn.
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Hi guys, sorry about the recent downtime. I am currently working very hard to restore the website. As you may have read we are upgrading to a dedicated server, this will provide us with better service, and more resources to run our forums. As you may have noticed Thursday June 8th, 2006 the AbsoluteTRL.net server went offline because of a huge load on our server. While this was bad for Hostrocket, this spells out good news for us, we are growing and will continue to grow. I was out of town from Friday until Saturday Night so was unable to check the website when I checked Sunday morning I had found the site was down and immediately called support, and found out the reason why we were shutdown. After several days I finally got them to turn the site back on for me, and made some minor changes and added the notes to you guys.
After talking with our provider, and the people who sponsor this website (hollywood.com), we were able to secure a dedicated server that we could use to host the AbsoluteTRL.net website. Over the past few days I have spent many hours trying to move the website and update it. At 6:18 PM of June 15th, 2006 it was official that the new server was setup and was running. There a few minor details still needed to be worked out,
but we will come back! This is a new phase for AbsoluteTRL.net and will provide us with room to grow. As I said I will continue spending long hours, and late nights getting this website back to normal.
If you guys have any questions feel free to PM me here, or email at
[email protected]. Stay tuned to this thread for more updates as they come in. I will try to keep everyone as updated as possible.
You will see that only one forum is visible:
The Lounge. I have done this on purpose, to lighten the server load until we move. Do not panic. No posts, images, data, files, countdowns, etc. have been lost. You just can't view them until we move to the new server. While we only have
The Lounge forum open, please do not start posting countdowns or other material that belongs in other locations. I have temporarily turned on this forum so we can have a communication medium.
Finally at some point I will stop the forums so that we can move the forums to the other server. I will try to save every post, but some of the most recent ones may be lost. Please take caution on any news posts.
Thank you for time and patience. Sorry once again about all the trouble.
Your Webmaster
Joe
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