Future Downtime

[Brandon Martus]

I received this e-mail from our host:
(yes, I knew about this before we changed hosts)

The company that hosts our website is moving from their current Verio hosted data center, to their own data center. This gives them more control of their network and it gives us better and faster support if anything goes wrong with the network.


We will begin the server moves at 6:00 p.m. EASTERN TIME on Saturday, January 19,
2002. (2300 GMT).

We will be doing final testing of systems, including testing the routing switch over
between January 15th and January 18th.

We anticipate the move will take anywhere from 5 to 10 hours. We will switch the
routing over halfway through the move. This will hopefully result in maximum down
time for any one server of approximately 5 hours.

Although we will not be changing or altering any data on the servers, nor do we
anticipate any problems, we do recommend that you do a local backup prior to the
moves.

We will have extra hardware on hand in the event we have any hardware failures.
Again, we don't anticipate any problems, but having a backup plan is prudent.



I have complete faith in VenturesOnline and am sure they will have us up by early-morning Sunday, January 20th.

So, don't panic when Saturday 19th comes around and the forums aren't up.

You've been warned.
Brandon