Updated - Notice of Forthcoming Downtime This Weekend Due To Server Upgrade [Completed]

Some of you may have noticed that we have experienced a few ‘blips’ of late due to traffic surges bringing our server to its knees so, in order to resolve these issues, we are upgrading to a new quad core dedicated server which will, unfortunately, result in some downtime as the move is completed.

By way of advanced warning, we expect the downtime to occur sometime from 1700 hrs (EST) / 2100 hrs (GMT) on Sunday 9th and have been advised that the break in service could last around anywhere between six and eight hours. (I’ll be lost, I know I will. I also know that the wife will rope me into taking her out shopping being that I’m free. Oh boy is this going to cost me).

We would like to apologise in advance for this upcoming downtime whilst assuring you that all is well at TFTS Towers and we very much look forward to seeing you back once the site is back online and coming to you from a beast of a machine – at which point we hope that you’ll also find that the site is rather more responsive than it has been of late.

In the meantime business will, of course, continue as usual.

Incidentally, we’ve already had a beer for this outgoing server which has done a sterling job of trying to keep up with our escalating traffic levels – you’ve done us proud, my friend.

10/04/08 Update: The server upgrade has now been completed and all appears well.