Things are most likely going to get get ugly over the next couple of days for some you.
Instead of piddling around with the server upgrades all the time I decided to fork out the cash for a fully Dedicated Server, which...one is much larger and faster, and two...we'll never have to go through this again.
I know I said that last time too, but this new one can have disk drives added to it to increase capacity, ram to increase speed, whatever I need it can be added instead of having to replace things or move.
It's a more significant amount of money each month but I'm confident it'll be worth it in the long haul.
Now the bad news.
Our IP address is going to change with this switch, which means were going to go through what we did last time with folks not being able to get on for a day or so, a few posts getting lost because people might post on the forum on the old IP address while we bring the new one live on the new IP address, etc.
In laymens terms what's going to happen is since were going to have a different IP address, we basically will be RE-establishing our location on the web.
You dont know it, but there's a file on your computer that remembers DNS files for the sites you visit. Which means their IP address etc. It'll take several hours for those DNS records to expire so the new ones can take over.
Were seasoned, we can get through this.....one more time
Edited to add--> The swap is scheduled to begin tomorrow at 1:00pm CST