The 'Sphere is moving

Alex Pepple · #1 03-03-2002, 03:32 PM

Dear Eratosphereans,

We've outgrown our allocated disk space eons ago and the monthly surcharges have been steadily increasing as we keep growing is now past my affordability cut-off point. So, I do have to move Able Muse & the 'Sphere elsewhere!

I've already found another temporary solution - which is another shared server, with hopefully a comparable load time to the present one, but with a little more space and no anticipates surcharges. I've started moving data over there.

Why do you need to know this?

Reason #1: It's quite possible that posts made during the cutover from our current to the new environment might be lost, plus, a blackout period might be necessary to complete the move, plus, there might be a glitch or two during the first few days that I will have to debug & fix.

Reason #2: Our best environment would be a dedicated server, which will give us gigs of extra space, and especially, a noticeable improvement in load time! But that will require sponsorship from Able Musers and 'Sphereans. You will soon be getting a 'fund-drive' email note to this effect, but if you'd rather not wait,
click here
to go to our sponsor pages (which is actually the least visited page in all of Able Muse! (: ) & see if you can do something to fix that.

Cheers,
...Alex

MEHope · #2 03-04-2002, 04:06 AM

Alex,

I have empty boxes if you need them and a pretty big trunk in the car. I'll bring chips and soda too.

Let me go through my change purse and see what I can do.

diprinzio · #3 03-15-2002, 10:56 AM

I tried to donate, this is what I got:
Unable to establish a secure connection to www.ablemuse.com. There is a problem with the security certificate from that site (the identity certificate name is not correct.)

The information you view and send will be readable to others while in transit and it may not go to the intended party.

I'm in San Jose five days a week. I can drop a check in the mail.

Greg
from Salinas

[This message has been edited by diprinzio (edited March 15, 2002).]

Alex Pepple · #4 03-17-2002, 06:58 PM

Hi Greg,

I have updated the sponsor link with and added Citibank's c2it as an alternative to Paypal. Click here for that link.

You may also donate by snail mail (check payable to Able Muse) at the address indicated at the sponsor page here.

Thanks for helping out!

Cheers,
...Alex

RCL · #5 03-17-2002, 07:32 PM

Hi, Alex. I sent through PayPal and got a receipt. Will you be aknowledging it got there?

Ralph La Rosa (RCL)

diprinzio · #6 03-18-2002, 05:55 AM

Hi Alex,

Mailed it this morning, (from Salinas) ---oops! check payable to Alex Pepple. Don't blow it at The Pink Poodle. : )

All the best,
Greg

Alex Pepple · #7 03-18-2002, 07:15 PM

Ralph - Paypal works also ... yes, I got it! Thanks for support.

Greg - Thanks for your help!
Pink Poodle, what's that? Leave it to those Campbell folks, eh?

Cheers,
...Alex

Alex Pepple · #8 04-03-2002, 02:16 PM

OK, it's time to sound the final alert - I'll complete the transfer of all our oodles of megabytes to the new dedicated server tonight & switch over the domain pointers as well. As I explained at the beginning of this thread, the newest posts might be lost during the cutover period, unless I find it adviseable to close down Eratosphere until change in domain pointers propagate during through the Internet. This can take a day or two since it depends on external factors -- which is why I'm not eager to take the close-it-down approach.

In any event, should you find a newer thread or reply missing after the switchover, you may still access these for a few days hence as follows:
a) if a whole thread is missing:
1- open the corresponding forum
2- replace 'www.ablemuse.com' in your browser URL location with the soon to be old IP address (meaning the one we're currently on): '209.15.66.166' (without the quotes).
b) if a response is missing from a thread:
1- open the thread
2- replace 'www.ablemuse.com' in your browser URL location with the soon to be old IP address: '209.15.66.166' (without the quotes).

.... and you can carry out this replacement kludge with anything else that you find missing, e.g. private messages, downloaded files, ... & if all else fails, drop me a note at staff@ablemuse.com . But I'm hopeful I can complete our cyber move with negligible to no data loss!

Cheers,
...Alex

Curtis Gale Weeks · #9 04-03-2002, 02:54 PM

Alex,

"Changing over the domain pointers" is an fairly foreign concept, for me. My biggest question: Will we be directed to the new site when we use the old address, or will there be a new address we should use?

I'm crossing my fingers and clicking my heels already.

Curtis.

Alex Pepple · #10 04-03-2002, 05:12 PM

Hi Curtis,

If all goes well - and it should - you won't even know that it happened. In other words, keep on typing exactly what you've been typing so far!

Cheers,
...Alex