Hi All
Most of you will be aware that membership of tMP has grown phenomenally during these last few months, together with an exponential rise in the number of daily threads and postings made on the fourms. This is indeed great news... well, it's fantastic news really - and I am delighted to continue to provide this service to you all. My sincere thanks go out to all of you for your continued help and support - you know that tMP would not be where it is today if it were not for your valued and enthusiastic contributions. I am honestly very, very grateful to you all. :tup
However, given these incredible rising numbers, together with some account limitations with our present web hosting service provider, it is now an appropriate time for tMP to move to a more permanent and long-term home...
This coming weekend - from Friday 21st May through to Sunday 23rd May - I will be on tenderhooks and will be working from dawn till dusk each day when tMP will be changing our webhosting company, and will therefore be moving our servers. This is a massive task and I can assure you that I will be working tirelessly to ensure there will be minimal disruption to tMP during this time. However, please do note that transferring domains from one webhosting company to another is totally out of my control, and can actually take up to 48-72 hours to complete, sometimes sooner sometimes longer.
To minimise the disruption to your tMP service, please make note of the following information:
Between the dates of Monday 24th May through to Friday 28th May, tMP will be fully available only on the .co.uk domain... i.e. www.themouthpiece.com . The domain www.themouthpiece.com WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE DURING THIS TIME. Therefore please can you update your bookmarks accordingly for this short time period.
I have already transfered www.themouthpiece.com to our new webhost, which I will activate once we have completed the huge server move on the weekend, completing it on Sunday evening. I will then request transfer of the .com domain, which will then be unavailable whist this domain transfer takes place.
If this well planned process works, you should only experience an hour or so downtime of tMP late on Sunday evening when I activate the www.themouthpiece.com domain. I will be posting regular pop-ups during the next few days to remind everyone of this.
Subject to the domain name transferring correctly, regular service and a much improved tMP on www.themouthpiece.com hosted on our new servers will resume the following weekend - earlier if the domain transfer completes sooner.
Please believe me everyone when I say to you - I am really on tenderhooks doing this, and I promise faithfully to put 100% effort in to the transfer. As ever, if you have any queries, questions or requests otherwise - please do feel free to contact me via PM or email - note different temporary addy - john@themouthpiece.com - and I will strive to answer your concerns. I am also happy to talk to anyone who might want this explained in more detail. PM me and I can arrange a call.
Please also note that should you wish to contact any of the moderators via e-mail during this time, you will need to use their .co.uk e-mail address and not their .com e-mail address.
Wish me luck... :?
Kind regards
John
Most of you will be aware that membership of tMP has grown phenomenally during these last few months, together with an exponential rise in the number of daily threads and postings made on the fourms. This is indeed great news... well, it's fantastic news really - and I am delighted to continue to provide this service to you all. My sincere thanks go out to all of you for your continued help and support - you know that tMP would not be where it is today if it were not for your valued and enthusiastic contributions. I am honestly very, very grateful to you all. :tup
However, given these incredible rising numbers, together with some account limitations with our present web hosting service provider, it is now an appropriate time for tMP to move to a more permanent and long-term home...
This coming weekend - from Friday 21st May through to Sunday 23rd May - I will be on tenderhooks and will be working from dawn till dusk each day when tMP will be changing our webhosting company, and will therefore be moving our servers. This is a massive task and I can assure you that I will be working tirelessly to ensure there will be minimal disruption to tMP during this time. However, please do note that transferring domains from one webhosting company to another is totally out of my control, and can actually take up to 48-72 hours to complete, sometimes sooner sometimes longer.
To minimise the disruption to your tMP service, please make note of the following information:
Between the dates of Monday 24th May through to Friday 28th May, tMP will be fully available only on the .co.uk domain... i.e. www.themouthpiece.com . The domain www.themouthpiece.com WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE DURING THIS TIME. Therefore please can you update your bookmarks accordingly for this short time period.
I have already transfered www.themouthpiece.com to our new webhost, which I will activate once we have completed the huge server move on the weekend, completing it on Sunday evening. I will then request transfer of the .com domain, which will then be unavailable whist this domain transfer takes place.
If this well planned process works, you should only experience an hour or so downtime of tMP late on Sunday evening when I activate the www.themouthpiece.com domain. I will be posting regular pop-ups during the next few days to remind everyone of this.
Subject to the domain name transferring correctly, regular service and a much improved tMP on www.themouthpiece.com hosted on our new servers will resume the following weekend - earlier if the domain transfer completes sooner.
Please believe me everyone when I say to you - I am really on tenderhooks doing this, and I promise faithfully to put 100% effort in to the transfer. As ever, if you have any queries, questions or requests otherwise - please do feel free to contact me via PM or email - note different temporary addy - john@themouthpiece.com - and I will strive to answer your concerns. I am also happy to talk to anyone who might want this explained in more detail. PM me and I can arrange a call.
Please also note that should you wish to contact any of the moderators via e-mail during this time, you will need to use their .co.uk e-mail address and not their .com e-mail address.
Wish me luck... :?
Kind regards
John
