Outage Expected 7-29-2006 AM

[staggats]

Dear people of the OUAL.

Some of you may know most of you may not. Majority share holders in my company are forcing my business partner of three years, and myself into resignation from the company which we started and built up.

Where this effects you is that this site has been colo'd in my company's corporate data center. Since this environment will become unavailable to me in the very near future, I will be moving the equipment to a new colo facility.

I am currently planning on performing this move saturday morning 7/29/2006 probably around 9am or so. This move will involve an ip address change, and as such you will suffer from dns lag for up to 1 hour or until your ISP's nameserver refreshes its cache.

For those of you with technical abilities, you can set your name resolver to point to another server which is not likely to have the name cached. If you happen to run your own name servers you can SIGHUP your daemon, or restart your service if you run windoze server.

Sorry for the quick move, and short notice, but I have lots of things that have to be acted on very quickly in order to protect my interests.

Thank you for your understanding during this trying time.

[Kathryn]

Thanks Stagg... :blush: but I am completely confused... Can someone translate for me :lol:

[marcy]

The server is going to be moved from the location where it currently is to another location.

Background on an IP address: When you go to a web site like www.onceuponalife.com (http://www.onceuponalife.com/), it is translated to an "IP address" - this is a series of numbers like 123.38.493.12. This happens behind the scenes so you don't have to remember the numbers but the name. This is done by something called a "DNS server".

Because the server is moving locations it will be getting a new IP address - therefore all of the other computers around the world will slowly learn that www.onceuponalife.com (http://www.onceuponalife.com/), instead of being IP adddress (again, an example) 123.38.493.12, will now be IP address 456.48.284.30 (again, an example).

You won't be able to get into the site until it's moved and your internet provider (AOL, Time Warner, Earthlink, etc) finds out the new IP address.

I know this is still technical, but hope it helps. (Stagg, sorry for butting in)

[Kathryn]

ahh... thanks Marcy...

[stass]

I didn't know about this Stagg and I am sorry this is happening to you. Thank you for taking care to move this place especially in its current condition.

[marcy]

I just re-read your first line. I'm sorry to hear that.

[Melissa]

I'm sorry to hear about your job! I hope you find something that you love soon. Thank you for the warning!

[Kara]

I'm so sorry this is all happening...
Thank you for doing what you are doing.
Is it necessary to print out journals if we want them?

[Ana975]

Sorry this is happening. Best of luck finding something else :bighug:

[sheila]

There is no need to scramble to save journals or anything else. Although it mught be a little difficult to get to OUAL during this weekend, things will be back to normal by Monday morning (at the latest).

If anyone has any problems, please feel free to contact me at sheila@onceuponalife.com

[Kara]

There is no need to scramble to save journals or anything else. Although it mught be a little difficult to get to OUAL during this weekend, things will be back to normal by Monday morning (at the latest).

If anyone has any problems, please feel free to contact me at sheila@onceuponalife.com

Thank you Sheila..

[Shannan]

Stag, Sorry about the job. You guys are doing great here though.

[Dennis]

Sorry Stagg. I hope you find something else quickly.

[Mary DK]

Stagg, thank you so much for letting us know.
I'm sorry to hear about your business troubles, I hope you can find something else really soon :crossfing

[Shanna]

Wow, Stagg! Sounds incredibly unfair and nasty. I hope that things look up soon :) Thanks so much for letting us know :)

[Eleanor]

Sorry to hear about this :( Thanks for the heads up!

[HollyNSC]

Sorry to hear Stagg I hope you are able to find something soon :hug99:

[tuesdayswife]

Thank you Stagg and Sheila!!!!!

And thank you Marcy for putting what is going to be happening in English!!!! :lol: :screwy: ALL of that was COMPLETELY over my head!!!!!!! Scary that I am the computer support person in our agency, huh? :lol: Good thing I know the phone number to our local computer tech up the street!!!!!!!!! :lol:

[Lissa]

Thanks for the info!

Staggs, sorry about the job situation!

[Kathryn]

I am sorry Stagg about your job- I read the post too quick and didn't see that... I am terribly sorry.

[Shel]

That sucks, Stagg. Hope you find something else that's even better quickly~

[staggats]

Server is back up at its new home. Looks as though people are connecting to it

[Mary DK]

Thanks for the smooth transfer, Stagg :aok:

[Kristen]

Wow, I kept wondering when it was going to happen. Looks like I missed it! hehehe
Thanks for everything!

[MrsPeacefrog]

Thanks, didn't notice a problem at all :heee:

(sorry bout the job sitch though! :blue: )

[Lyoshka]

Sorry about your business, Stagg!