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To: Midlothian - from the Dark Side!
Subject: Downtime Completed
From: FPB
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 03:35:23 -0400
Hi,

I'll keep this fairly short and sweet.

We didn't have any issues while doing the hardware replacement but moving the files took a lot longer than expected.
THANK YOU! to everyone who showed their support during the extended downtime.

As the update said, there was no way for us to expedite the file transfer and it was simply a matter of waiting for nearly 10,000,000 files to be moved.

We couldn't provide an accurate time for completion due to variable transfer speeds (with that many files every kb/sec change can really skew your calculations) so we did what we could.

The transfer is now complete and we can finally sleep and you can go back to enjoying your ever safe forums.

We hope you enjoy the new hardware which offers RAID 10 protection meaning even if a hard drive fails thing continue to run like normal, general speeds are increased using RAID 10 as well.

Precautionary measures like this are what makes FreePowerBoards so reliable. Luckily, we don't have to do large changes like this often, as most of our efforts are done behind the scenes. We look forward to hosting you for years to come and we take pride in the secure service we offer.

Thanks again for your patience and have a wonderful day!

Chris Davis
President & Founder
Free Power Boards, Inc.
1 (860) 331-8207 http://www.freepowerboards.com/

And the teensiest little word of warning:

Since the downtime, the "view new posts" bit doesn't seem to be working. It will bring up a page which tells you there are 4 new posts, but it doesn't tell you what they were.

Until this gets fixed - give the boys the chance of a few hours' kip first - just use the Recent Topics list which has been specially created for you on the right.

However, afficionados of the Games Arcade may be pleased to know that the games are working now, and still free.

I won't swear that I've tried every one of the 197-or-so games for you, but the ones I have test-driven are all in good working order again.

I haven't put in the Categories this time, because it's so time-consuming - each individual game has to be edited manually to sort them into categories, and it's a lot of effort if it isn't really all that important.

So, if you do want the categories, please let me know, and I will do that for you. It would help if those who use the Arcade could tell me what categories they would find useful, and also which of their favourites should go into which box.

Honestly, I really do try to please!

48-cowboy

We've discovered that one or two Members have found that their settings have changed while we were out of action - preferences about e-mail notifications of new posts and PMs, that sort of thing.

If you're having any trouble with not getting e-mails you want - or getting them when you don't want them! - please give the Admin Team a shout, and we'll do our best to get you sorted out.

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