And we're back...

[RadioRob]

Greetings folks...

As you might have noticed, this site has been offline since around mid-day Tuesday.   Our prior hosting provider decided that they are unable to continue hosting our website and had ended service to us.  Unfortunately they did not provide any notification to me about this decision and I was forced to move the site to a new server without any sort of heads up.  This includes arranging for the new hosting company, configuring the new server to meet the technical requirements, getting a copy of our current data, restoring that data (over 300GB of files), recovering the database (over 18.5 million records in that database taking up 11GB of space for the DB alone), and reconfiguring the software itself to run in the new environment.  

While migrating there was also some technical issues that I ran into that required me to coordinate with Invision's technical support team.  So that back and forth added additional time to the mix as well.  

And to pile on further… all of this occurred while I'm traveling for my day job. So I've been doing this while in a hotel in between doing my day job on the road.  

There are most likely several other things that will need to be fixed still and I'm working through them.  For example, email may only be partially working.  I still need to setup things like SPF and DKIM for the new server so our emails don't flag as spam.  There are other settings that might need to be redone to work in the new server as well that I'm not thinking about yet.  (As you might have imagined, I've not had much sleep during this whole process.)

But anyway... you get the idea.  No... we're not going anywhere!  This was a minor setback but we'll continue to move forward.  Thank you all for your understanding and support!

Rob

[Nightowl]

Glad you’re back.  Thanks for your hard work in keeping this valuable forum alive!

[BaronArtz]

I am glad the site is back!  I did miss it, even it was only down for a few days.  Thank you for all your efforts!

[+ Italiano]

You deserve a medal! 👏👏👏

[urbanfetish]

Thank you for all you’ve been doing! It is appreciated!!!

[+ poolboy48220]

Add me to the list of people thanking you.  Your work is greatly appreciated.  

[scopitone]

Thank you for all your hard work!

[JayinHKNYC]

Thank you! You deserve a masseur or deli experience after all of this!

[+ DrownedBoy]

I have to ask...

Which provider decided to dump the site? I'm assuming they didn't give a reason, but we all know what it is.

[mike carey]

Time for the Légion d'honneur!

[+ KensingtonHomo]

What a nightmare @RadioRob. Thanks for your hard work and perseverance. 

[+ sync]

Kudos upon Kudos to you for what you have done.  I'm exhausted from just reading all the hoops you have had to jump through to get the site back up and running for us.

[JMS]

Your hard work is very much appreciated. The site was missed for a couple of days!

[Wildwood]

Thank you so much, Rob. Greatly appreciate all your efforts in maintaining this community for us.

[DCtravelsforfun]

Thanks a ton!  I appreciate it!

[JuttGeronimo]

I'm relieved to see that this site wasn't taken down by some other entity. Thanks so much for what you do @RadioRob, it sounds like a lot of effort on your part.

[+ JamesB]

Thank you for all your hard work, migrating a site like this one is no small task, especially without prior notice.

Would you mind sharing the name of the previous hosting provider? While it's understandable that a host might take issue with a site like this, abruptly shutting it down without warning is both  inconsiderate and very unprofessional.

[+ DERRIK]

time to show my appreciation.   $$

[MaybeMaybeNot]

What a nightmare. Thank you so much for looking out for us. 

[nate_sf]

@RadioRob your efforts are heroic! Many thanks for all you do. 

[liubit]

@RadioRob, you rock! 

[amused1]

4 hours ago, urbanfetish said:

Thank you for all you’ve been doing! It is appreciated!!!

Thanks for all you do 

[MassageCommunityMember]

Thank you! Wow!

[+ Yellowrod]

You don't know what you've got till it's gone... (Joni Mitchell).

So true in this case.  Thank you. 

[LostUpstate]

So glad it’s back! This site has been an invaluable source for information about providers and all the protocols involved!