Dear esteemed members!

We are happy to announce that the work has now been completed. Phew!

If there are any problems, as usual, just let us know.

Our thanks must go to Roy and Cam for their invaluable efforts on this. Three cheers, please!


The FPN Admin Team.

Hip! Hip! Hooray!

Thank you Roy, Cam, and Ernst!

sweet

Thank you FPN Team! It didn't hurt a bit.

Yay!!! Nice job and quick too! I didn't even go for the anesthesia.

Thank You!

Huzzah!

You guys are the best! Much appreciated.

Mahalo a nui loa!

Doug

Thank you Roy and Cam (or Cam and Roy )!!

You all are a tremendous blessing.

Dave

Thank you, thank you.

The forum is faster for me now. Thanks for the work!

Zanks!

Well done, people. Absolutely painless for me here in the UK. Does everyone agree that it seems about ten times more snappy now?

There is something admins might want to note though, regarding topic notifications. From my mail server logs:

00000002 00000000 27/10/2007 08:00:19 Sent ODMR to smtp.mailkeep.net. Response: 250 ok switching to client mode
00000001 00000000 27/10/2007 08:00:19 IP Whitelist: Matched 216.46.27.155
+ 00000002 smtp.mailkeep.net (216.46.27.155) [27/10/2007 08:00]
00000001 00000002 27/10/2007 08:00:20 HELO smtp.mailkeep.net ---> 250 smtp.midair.net
00000001 00000002 27/10/2007 08:00:20 IP Whitelist: Matched 216.46.27.155
00008000 00000002 27/10/2007 08:00:23 Abuse: Could not verify return path host fpnhost.fountainpennetwork.com
00000001 00000002 27/10/2007 08:00:23 MAIL FROM:<nobody@fpnhost.fountainpennetwork.com> ---> 554 cannot verify return path
00000001 00000002 27/10/2007 08:00:23 RSET ---> 554 cannot verify return path
00000001 00000002 27/10/2007 08:00:23 RSET ---> 250 clearing sender and recipient list, go ahead
00000001 00000002 27/10/2007 08:00:23 QUIT ---> 221 have a nice day (SMTP Closing)
00000001 00000002 27/10/2007 08:00:23 SMTP Client Disconnected (216.46.27.155): No RCPT TO

As you might see, this was received via my backup mail server. I'm waiting to receive a notification message directly, and if the problem persists I'll let you know.

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Edit: Ah, just received one even as I posted the above reply:

00001000 00000000 27/10/2007 13:41:35 SMTP: (Accept) Receiving connection from 69.65.103.214
+ 0000000C fpnhost.fountainpennetwork.com (69.65.103.214) [27/10/2007 13:41]
00000001 0000000C 27/10/2007 13:41:36 EHLO fpnhost.fountainpennetwork.com ---> 250 smtp.midair.net
00008000 0000000C 27/10/2007 13:41:40 Abuse: Could not verify return path host fpnhost.fountainpennetwork.com
00000001 0000000C 27/10/2007 13:41:40 MAIL FROM:<nobody@fpnhost.fountainpennetwork.com> ---> 554 cannot verify return path
00000001 0000000C 27/10/2007 13:41:40 QUIT ---> 221 have a nice day (SMTP Closing)
00000001 0000000C 27/10/2007 13:41:40 SMTP Client Disconnected (69.65.103.214): No RCPT TO

So it does persist.

Thanks y'all for the good job done!!!

It's snappy, for sure. But I noted a problem too.
I received a "new message" that I had not only received a day earlier but responded to. All subsequent communications apparently went into cyber limbo. So I'm guessing any undelivered messages out there for people at the time of the switch went poof. The "new message" was from the day before yesterday, so it's possible much of yesterday's PM traffic is missing.

Might want to tell people using the Marketplace to resend. Otherwise those "first to responds" are going to be skewed.

I suppose I should be thankful that FPN was down for most of the evening. I actually spent some time conversing with family members, rather than having my nose buried in the forum.

It really is good to take a break now and again, even though I don't want to at all.

Thank you, admins, for your thankless efforts, which are not thankless to me. My wife used to be an admin on a non-FPN board, and I know how much time it can take, if you do not watch it very carefully.

Donnie

I shall go now, and fill a pen to each admin, and place them on the east side of my desk.
Thanks for the work.

Bloody Hell !!!

Thanks for the reminder Donnie - I've just remembered those people in the other room

Cheers,
Ruaidhrí

Thanks to all involved. I got on this morning with no problem at around 6 am in Boston. However, when I tried later on around 10 am, I could not get on at all. Nothing, nada. Firefox, Safari, IE could all not find the server. I tried all the computers in the house (3). This has happened occasionally in the past, but I'd sort of hoped the switch-over would change that. In any case, I'm on now and glad to be on again. Well done, everyone! (I only forgot twice during the evening and tried to check in.)

I too couldn't get on this morning, but now it's not a problem.


Many thanks to our hard working gang! Job well done!

Nice job and thank you. If it wasn't for your hard work, I would have a lot of time to devote to other things, rather than checking FPN every hour!

Couldn't get on this morning but working great now. Thanks to all involved for your hard work.

Thanks admins for a great job.

Just a note . . . the 'Stay Logged On Forever' option is no longer available, not sure if that's intentional.

I just noticed that my Avatar has reset itself to my old Avatar instead of what I was using yesterday!?

Yes, thanks Col, I just noticed that too.

Looks like we may have forgotten to configure the mail server properly.

Looking into that right now, just that it may take a day or two before it's fixed, as we are going from a hosted account on a VPS server to a full-blown VPS server.

Warm regards, Wim

Sorry for that. This may have been caused by the final update we did to make sure everything worked ok, as there appeared to be some picture files missing. Please add it again, if you don't mind too much.

Warm regards, Wim

I'll see if I can find it.

Warm regards, Wim

Was starting to get twitchy... Glad we're back.
Thank y'all.

Huzzah!
Huzzah!
Huzzah!

I was trying to post a reply this morning when I suddenly couldn't get it to preview. And then I remembered that this work was going on. Luckily my computer didn't do its crash routine while I left the message sitting there in a browser window waiting for FPN to come back.

Thanks for all of the hard work!

Thank you, Thank you! All systems seems to be working just fine now.

I am not certain of the reason for the server switch; however, I still have difficulty connecting fairly frequently, sometimes for an hour or more. I try 3 different browsers, (Safari for Windows, my standard, if no joy, Firefox, if no joy, Internet Exploder) to eliminate browser issues as a cause.

Donnie

Hip Hip Huzzah! GRRRRRRRRRR!!! (That's three cheers and a growler for the admin team).

Paddler

Hip! Hip! Hurray!
Thanks for all the work. I always hated working nights and weekends.

Looks like you did a great job. Thanks!

It must be your aura...................

Understood - thanks for that.

My own mail server is configured to check to see if the domain specified in the FROM: statement has a valid MX or A record in the DNS - fpnhost.fountainpennetwork.com appears to have neither at present. These checks are more or less essential these days, to help to prevent DOS attacks or SPAM. However, I've simply excepted your host domain to allow the messages through, so no hurry with the fix as far as I'm concerned.

The viewing number of the topics doesn't change.
Everything else worked just great for me.

Edit: The problem was solved.
Everything is great.

Dear FPN Admin Team,

Thanks for all your hard work. I missed most of the dust up do to being out, but I think the new server is just swell.

Regards,

Wade

On two occasions since the switch over to the new server I've been unable to connect to FPN during the wee hours of the night/morning.

These have both occurred when I'd already been on FPN for a while. On both occasions I was trying to preview a message when I suddenly couldn't connect anymore. The most recent time when this happened was at about 12:50 AM (ET) this morning.

Any advice? I see it's happening to someone else too. Are we all experiencing these non-connections at the same time?

Same thing here- except it happens during the late morning or early afternoon as well for me. It will be working and all of a sudden stop entirely. I usually can't access for awhile, and then it will work again later. Sometimes around these periods the board will be slow to load as well.

Same thing. I am about to post some diagnostics I ran during the failures to the admins.

The server is down most of the time, or has some serious problems.

Edit: Same thing such like the 3 previous replies.

Our Special Ops people are working on it with the server dudes/dudettes. If I understand the gibberish correctly, there's something about memory stuff and optimizing a bunch of consonants, disabling some dohicky that overlaps with another dohickey, and changing some other setting, and another one, with a tweak of something else. Gotta love the Special Ops people! (That's their new title, they don't like IT Guru)