Sites issues...

[kujoe2002]

Is it me or is this site having major issues. I keep getting database errors...

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I even got it posting this

[Steve R Jones]

It's the site. The IT people have been working on it for a while.

[wh666-666]

I believe this was discussed in the other thread?

Btw, just out of interest, is there a rough ETA yet on the search/indexes issue?

[Steve R Jones]

The IT people have til Monday to upgrade a few more sites and move them from the east coast to the west cost. The data center on the east coast is shutting down. Once that is complete they will be working on fixing the other issues.

[Ashpool]

The IT people have til Monday to upgrade a few more sites and move them from the east coast to the west cost. The data center on the east coast is shutting down. Once that is complete they will be working on fixing the other issues.

Why are they killing the East Coast DC? Will it just be one DC for the entire ITBE thing?

[Steve R Jones]

Rumor has it that the East Coast will be underwater some day due to global warming

All I know is that they've been planning the big upgrade for months... New servers/new back end software - and the vBulletin upgrade. Maybe they got a better price on the machines with the new DC.. Or maybe it was simply that the East coast DC was shutting down that prompted a lot of this.