Recent Downtime

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Forum Promotion,

I am sure you that a lot of you are aware of our recent downtime. Our server experienced an issue involving a raid controller, which lead to a full hardware failure. The issue has now been resolved by the host.

We are currently assessing the extent of data loss, if any.

Recently, we have had a few issues with our current host so we decided to migrate to another host. We will be migrating to Scala Hosting’s SSD cloud servers which will give us a much better uptime and speed. The migration will happen on the 5th of April at around 10AM GMT. Since we are moving servers, Forum Promotion will be unavailable during this time.

We completely understand the inconvenience this causes the community, and we deeply apologize. Unfortunately, the situation is completely out of our hands until we complete our host migration.
Until then, we will continue to keep you updated via our Facebook and Twitter social media profiles, as well as announcements on the forum itself.

EDIT: Regarding Site Battle Madness and the Survey Results,
  • The current Site Battles were extended by 2 days to result in a closure on April 7th. The Championship round, therefore, will commence on April 8th and end on April 14th. The winners will be announced publicly April 16th.
  • Due to several delays on my end, ALL prizes will be handed out by April 19th for all participants.
  • Due to the loss of a template draft of the survey recap during the rollback, the lucky participants who will receive prizes for their participation in the Forum Promotion will also be recognized on April 16th with the Tournament Recap along with a brief summary of some of the survey findings.
 
Glad to see that FP is back up, hopefully we have better luck with the new host!
 
Sucks that we were down over 24 hours. Good to hear the problem is resolved. Looking forward to the new host!
 
Thanks for letting us know. I'm very glad that FP is back up.
 
Are you moving hosts because of the recent downtime or was the current host presenting problems even before this?
 
Nice to see us back up and running, I was going through FP withdrawals :lol:

I can't wait to see FP on a better server, a faster one!
 
alakazam said:
Are you moving hosts because of the recent downtime or was the current host presenting problems even before this?
Both of these points were factors in our decision to switch hosts, but the recent downtime definitely rushed the decision to move.
 
Good to see FP back up and running, was given a shock when I was unable to access or log into the site the day before yesterday.
 
We really appreciate your patience while we try to organize our data loss and prepare for the host switch!
 
At least it's now back up. Hopefully we can restore the lost data somehow! And may the host switch this time works for the better. 🙂
 
I was wondering what happened. I haven't come back for a month but I was a little worried that the site was down the first time I tried to come back. Good to know.
 
Oh good to see you guys back. I honestly thought the downtime was due to the upgrade to 3.1 lol.
 
Ugh, that was horrible! I kept checking and checking, but I'm glad we are back up and running. :biggrin:
 
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