[Complete] MIGWeb Downtime on Sunday

[MikeWarner]

On Sunday I will be performing major updates to the website software as well as updating backend server software. I have been preparing for these upgrades over the last month and therefore I'm hoping things will go smoothly. MIGWeb will be down for most of Sunday as a result. A message explaining this will be displayed, but due to the nature of some updates, will not be viewable at all times. A new look MIGWeb will follow a few weeks after these updates.

I will send out a reminder email to all active users on Saturday.

For the technical people, I'll be updating Apache including php and SQL. vBulletin 3.7 just came out, so I'll be updating this too - but due to the number of modifications to the MIGWeb forums, many other features will need to be reinstalled, updated or rewritten as a result. The upgrade of php and SQL should give use a good performance boost too.

[Jack]

Cool stuff Mike.

Just out of interest, who takes responsibility for updating the OS and all of the other software on the server?

[Benn]

Cool.

I will send out a reminder email to all active users on Saturday.

Why not "cull" a few of the users that dont use the site to free up space?

[Rubix_Cube]

Why not "cull" a few of the users that dont use the site to free up space?

A few current users could go aswell lmao lmao

[Benn]

True.

[Tom Williams]

Cool stuff Mike.

Just out of interest, who takes responsibility for updating the OS and all of the other software on the server?

Mike does that. He has been busy doing a lot of updating in prep for the new vb software.

[MikeWarner]

Yeah - I do all backend and front end server stuff (basically everything as the server is unsupported). I'm no expert, but I have experience and Google on my side! lol.

[Jack]

lmao lmao

What OS is it running? Probably something easy to deploy like Red Hat.

[Jack]

Edit: Apache/1.3.37

1337? Just me that noticed that. Fair enough.

Ahem.

[Stephen SRi]

cheers for warning just as well going 2 party 2moorw so wont be on line lol

[Jack]

I don't like it.

lmao lmao

[twag]

i take it that all the damn adverts are part of the update?

[Tom Williams]

i take it that all the damn adverts are part of the update?

As you put it all the adverts are part of the update. If you did a quick search you would have found out that the site needs to pay for itself. Revenue's are falling from current sources so new ones need to be found.

Its one advert per page, once you are passed it it is gone.

I thought it felt odd to start with, but now I hardly notice them.

Tom

[Paul]

Your joking right? Why is the ad not at the bottom?

[Rubix_Cube]

Im guessing as it attracts more attention (Obviously lmao ) where its placed.

imo its not exactly a huge problem - its only 1 small block when you pass the first post on any page - just a case of getting used to ignoring it !

Much better than it was before when they were every 3/4 posts & down the side ect.....

[BlackIce]

Wasnt the removal of the ad's part of the appeal of becoming a member?

To be fair I dont really notice them after 24 hours of mig

[Dom]

No ads on Firefox/Linux with Adblock plus enabled

Not done it to specifically bypass the ads/sponsored links but my feckin Fujitsu Siemens laptop with Shi$ta installed lost its internet connection 6 times in 10 minutes so I've rebooted with Ubuntu

[Tom Williams]

The removal of previous adverts was yes, but when Mike has finished getting everything back up and running, as well as a refreshed view of the site I understand the intention is to use this space to promote discount offering companies and those who wish to advertise with MIG, and not just generically generated adverts by google.

[MikeWarner]

Dom, why not support mig and see the ads? You are only getting an unsightly gap instead.

[Dom]

I wouldn't say it leaves a big gap........


Being partially dyslexic I find it fairly distracting having the adverts slotted inbetween posts. I have to read and re-read stuff quite often.

I'm only on Linux at the moment as Vista is having an off evening - most of my browsing is done through windoze so the ads are not blocked but tonight my laptop is refusing to maintain an internet connection so I'm using my dual boot to browse through linux instead which has the adblocker installed on the browser.

[Jack]

Dom, why not support mig and see the ads?

Surely it won't generate any revenue unless he actually clicks on them?

[MikeWarner]

Yes Jack - but people do click on them, and if you can't see them, you won't. The fact that they are in a more visible place means that people are more likely to see well targeted ads.

[Benn]

Been getting that http404 thing again while trying to log in it work.
Took 11 atempes to log in.

[MikeWarner]

Ben - are you logging in from the front page? That my be broke, I'll go check.

[MikeWarner]

Ben - was just the login from the front page - I've fixed it now. Cheers.