http://www.ozliberty.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9273

that's what happened.

Sweet, now there's something else to read during the day at work

It looked like a dodgy database upgrade to me....

about time its back..... i was getting bored

CRUI5N;115237 wrote:

Bout time, I was having withdrawal symptoms. Work was just not the same.

i agree with you....work was just too hard...

Just the Vbullitin Software.
The Software that makes the forum work.

The "Big" upgrade is still on the way.

Hi Nuko,

Expect a reasonable down time for the HUGE upgrade.

You know what they say about cakes and eggs.

Cheers,
Nik

Soop;115301 wrote:

For the Big upgrade, I'd give it a fortnight. Perhaps longer?

An efficient database migration to add new features to a website that's only real feature is a forum, realistically; shouldn't be that difficult. If all the upgrades were laid out/debugged prior to installing the (new database or keeping with existing and just adding features?) then the downtime should be minimal. To be fair there is always unexpected/unseen errors so you could allow a few days to cover that. All depends on how committed the sys admin is and whether or not they'd be working long hours to get it back up and running.

I did this sorta **** at uni, and to a lesser extent a couple of times for some private websites, shouldn't be all that difficult (that being said, I still have nightmares about MySQL lol), depending upon the time put into it.

A fortnight is too long.... but hey theres no shortage of websites out there to occupy our time for two weeks I guess

Good point Nik. My sentiments exactly

Hi Nuko,

No worries mate. Hate to sound blunt! Some of the 'feedback' received over the last few days has been far less than constructive, I appreciate you don't have the time or desire to stare at code all day for no pay... But! That's exactly what the site admin are doing.

Good on 'em!

And yes, SQL is EVIL!

Cheers,
Nik

Nuko26;115303 wrote:

An efficient database migration to add new features to a website that's only real feature is a forum, realistically; shouldn't be that difficult. If all the upgrades were laid out/debugged prior to installing the (new database or keeping with existing and just adding features?) then the downtime should be minimal. To be fair there is always unexpected/unseen errors so you could allow a few days to cover that. All depends on how committed the sys admin is and whether or not they'd be working long hours to get it back up and running.
A fortnight is too long.... but hey theres no shortage of websites out there to occupy our time for two weeks I guess

Nuko, the upgrade is not purely migrating forum databases, it is moving the entire site in a different focus so its no longer a website "that's only real feature is a forum".
And for those wondering, the downtime will be hopefully kept to a minimum, and no it shouldn't be as long as a fortnight. Hopefully a few days at the most.

PS SQL is better than any of the alternatives

I appreciate the time and effort that goes into maintaining this forum. I've used phpBB before and yes it can be a PITA. If planned properly, you can spread the down time over a few days rather than all in one hit. On top of that you can have a planned schedule of the update so we are all aware of whats going on rather than post messages only to find out nobody can reply. The wrx.com.au mob got theirs up and runnings really quick and we're better than them