Thanks to hardware-monitoring software, we've received notices that the primary drive in our web server is dying. We've got a plan in place to replace it, which will likely be happening over the next couple of days. When we do replace it, the server and main web site will be offline.

However, when the site is down, e-mail, forums, and the oekaki will still be up and available.

The drive in question does NOT contain anyone's artwork; it only contains the OS. Downtime should be minimal.

-- BK

Thanks for the heads-up!

Sorry about that. For some reason, this thread made me want to mangle Shakespeare. Go figure.

As Jinx said, thank you for the heads up. While it's understandable that websites often must go down for critical maintenance like this, it's always better when the webmaster can tell his loyal fans why it happens, if only to keep us reassured enough to prevent us from flooding his mailbox with concerned messages.

Roadstripe:

Quote:

"Alas, poor main drive! — I knew it, fellow posters; a server
of infinite work, of most excellent power: it hath
borne me on its gain a thousand times, and now, how
abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at
it. Here hung diodes that I have pinged I know
not how oft. Where be your zaps now? your
electrons? your codes? your flashes of programming,
that were wont to set the website on a roar? Not one
now, to mock your own spinning? quite net-fallen?
Now get you to Bad Karma's chamber, and tell him, let
him print an inch thick, to this favour he must
type; make him laugh at that."

Quote:

— from Spamlet, Act V, Scene 1

Sorry about that. For some reason, this thread made me want to mangle Shakespeare. Go figure.

As Jinx said, thank you for the heads up. While it's understandable that websites often must go down for critical maintenance like this, it's always better when the webmaster can tell his loyal fans why it happens, if only to keep us reassured enough to prevent us from flooding his mailbox with concerned messages.

HA HA HA! That's awesome. I'm going to have to try to keep that somewhere. I love it. copies it off to print

Well, I don't like people to panic about their artwork. I know many people who use online galleries for the only storage of their artwork. Silly people.

-- BK