Dearest Ladies and Gentlemen of the Board,

We'd like to proudly announce that the move to our new server has been completed successfully.

The old server has been set to only show a short message with the new ip-address, so you should be able to find us rapidly in all cases, automatically once the new ip-address has been propagated over the internet, or via the actual ip-address if that isn't complete yet.

Warm regards,

The FPN Admin Team

Super news!! Thanks for all of the hard work.

Thanks to all of you for your hard work. Best,
David

Congratulations!


Now you can start planning the next upgrade.
(Sorry Wim, I had to say it.)

Beware what you wish for ! (we actually are....)

Warm regards, Wim

Congratulations.... and many thanks!

Congrats on surviving the ordeal!

Wow! Did it even go down? If it did, I didn't notice Thank you very much, admins

Well done and thanks!!!!

Quick question: are we on our own dedicated server now or . . . ? Just trying to find out where we are and where we might be headed.

Thanks again - I know it's been a pain.

Great job, and thanks.

We are no longer on a "virtual" server but on our own hardware at the hosting company. Hopefully, this will be big enough for our expected growth for some time.

--Roy

yay!!! hooray!!! Good job!!!

Bravo! Nicely done.

Wonderful news! Thank you very much!

Well done everyone - these types of moves don't always have happy endings!

They do when you have the kinds of gurus we have making sure the move goes seamlessly. A big group hug for Roy and Wim. Wim and Roy, take a bow...!!!

Regards,

Gerry

KUDOS! What a great job! That was FAST! Thanks for all your hard work.

Cedar

As Gerry said above - Roy and Wim, take a bow

Fond regards,
Ruaidhrí

a guinness in the can to wim and roy! (send back the widgets!!)

the goils, olga, ernestine, the beautiful angelina and me thanks you and salutes you.

Fantastic.

The transition, for me, was seamless.

I actually got back from the Raleigh Pen Show, logged in, typed up a brief summary, and then FPN disappeared precisely when they said it would. I commend them for their timing. Also, since I was wanting to post the summary, I had a good idea of how long FPN was off-line. VERY quick move, Roy and Wim! Congrats again on a job well done! Be sure to give yourselves a nice 20% raise.

Mahalo a nui loa!

Doug

Outstanding job! Smooth as glass!

Right on!!! Yes, gentlemen, take a bow!

Thanks for your efforts,
Ann

I think this calls for addition donations - I'm going to make one right now.

Erick

Deeply thankful for all the hard work!!

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

Been back from the gym and what do I find.....a new server!(Thanks,guys!)

John

Mooovelous!

Congratulations and many thanks for a job well done!

Rgds

I'm sure there are boxes of stuff you have not noticed are missing yet, and a few broken items, and maybe even a box that hasn't been opened since the last move.

Forgot to add but another donation is on its way, ready for the next upgrade!

Rgds

Thanks a lot. Great job!

Thanks for all the work you guys have put in to this move, it is appreciated by all of us that love to browse this excellent site.

David

Thanks all!

Congratulations.

Good job, guys. Thanks for all the work. Is working great!:

So the black-outs should be history? At least for a while?

Yes, with a dedicated server with 4 processors, 4GB of DRAM, 2 TB of bandwidth per month, and 290 GB of diskspace, mirrored, we should be able to continue for a few months at least without the hiccups we had in the last few months .

Warm regards, Wim

Well done people. Thanks a lot for all of your efforts.

Where would we be without FPN!

Awesome job Admin! You all rock!!

Dave

Great work!! Thanks for all you do to make our life more enjoyable!

Thank you No more FPN withdrawal symptoms!

Thank you!

How do you do that, anyway?

Fred

Many thanks to all involved. I'm sure it wasn't an easy task. Congratulations on a job very well done!

Thank you.

Don't visit much anymore, but it's now much much faster, thanks.

Do what? Proudly announce? Y'all just gotta see Wim posting the announcement to see that. Buttons practically flying off his shirt... LOL

Seriously, it was co-ordinated remarkably well, huge databases transferred without error, guru's anticipating potential problems and preventing them, one specialist handling specific areas of the transfer in conjunction with another handling his own areas. As an observer, it seemed like an musical being presented with the composer and conductor working together to present a new performance.

Seemed simple when it worked, but the feeling that it could have gone much more ... awkwardly ... was not far away from me for most of the several hours it took.

There are likely members of the FPN with a lot of expertise in running a BBS, or perhaps with IT knowledge equal to or possibly exceeding that of our gurus, but I have to ask whether they are willing to donate that time freely, without any reward other than the knowledge of a job well done ... for years. We've gotten that type of support from Wim and Roy for quite a while. More than one has a right to expect, I would submit.

So I for one, am very grateful that we have these people helping us, otherwise, I suspect we wouldn't exist.

Certainly not in the form we do currently.

Just my .02....

Regards,

Gerry

Are we there yet?