Thread: PP.O Going Offline

Yes its true, after 8 years, PP.O is going offline.

I have no choice.

You all have made it happen, and there is no way around it.

Thank you!
In order to transfer the more than half million posts and thousands and thousand of members, I need to shutter the site for maintenance.
We are moving to a new host that has promised excellent service and reliability; at a cost lower than the more than $600 I shell out a month here even without plastering the place with ads.
I just hate em.

So my goal is something more affordable, with equal everyday reliablity we enjoy now.
But during the database transfer, the site slows to a drunken-packer like crawl, and I'd rather not having you wonder if I finally finished a liter of vodka in one sitting and fell down on the "slow" button on my keyboard.

Join me on this adventure, I waited many months to make the move to the deadest part of the offseason.
Maybe I
can finally deliver the additional features I keep talking about when I am not maintaining the server all by myself!

Thank you for your patience.
This will start at 10 pm tonight CST.

Any comments before the plunge, make 'em.
They likely won't make the transfer!
LOL.

Thanks again.

Thank for all you do.
How long will the shutdown last?

Good luck with the switch Webby, hope all goes smooth for you.......I'll be waiting for the return of PPO...




Any Idea on just how long this may take?.

oh no!!!! What am i gonna do until it comes back online???? where am i gonna find all this weird obscure news about stuffff no body really cares? maybe ill go be a troll on a packer site...

"WVV" wrote:

Thank for all you do.
How long will the shutdown last?

Estimate is one day;
if it goes to shit, then one day because I quit and leave until another effort.


I have to remember to change kaka del toro to kaka del rio in memory.
Sorry for the delay prophet!


Then you cool folks can help us choose:
purple background with white reading area throughout the site (like the forums now but everywhere in the site) or keep the PURPLE BLOOD RUNNING STRONG!

Now, where's that delete button?

Good luck on the switch, Webby!

Thanks for all your PP.O efforts!

Few questions
Is it still going to be purplepride.org?
How and when will we know to go to this new site (email or something)?
Will you still go by webby?
Why during the combine!?


I like the "purple background with white reading area throughout the site (like the forums now but everywhere in the site) "

Speaking of the site and costs to upkeep it, I forgot, I contributed $10 a while back (a month or two ago) and was just wondering if I get one of those cool supporter tabs?? :P

I suppose I need to PM you what my actual name to associate it with PurplePackerEater??

Sorry to spring it on you at a such a busy time, it's just that I forgot about it.

"PurpleHornsOfDestruction" wrote:

Few questions
Is it still going to be purplepride.org?
How and when will we know to go to this new site (email or something)?
Will you still go by webby?
Why during the combine!?


I like the "purple background with white reading area throughout the site (like the forums now but everywhere in the site) "

1. yes, just moving physical location
2. naked pictures of singer and his whip cream mustache are missing
3. I am too sneaky to admit to anything
4. Because I am a thoughtless prick.

LOL

;D

(when you see the new location, the homepage will say welcome, but everything is the same)

"PurplePackerEater" wrote:

Speaking of the site and costs to upkeep it, I forgot, I contributed $10 a while back (a month or two ago) and was just wondering if I get one of those cool supporter tabs?? :P

I suppose I need to PM you what my actual name to associate it with PurplePackerEater??

Sorry to spring it on you at a such a busy time, it's just that I forgot about it.

yeah, sometimes I don't know how to attibute it if the username is not in the comments field, so I wait for someone to mention it.