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Site Outage

Published April 13th, 2008 in American Idol. Tags: .

ETAA:  I’m postponing the move for now.  I might attempt it next weekend.  I’m going to try some other things to get the site running a little quicker.  Thanks for your patience!

ETA: I’m feeling really good about the upgrade. Lots of testing and advance prep work means that the outage will probably be less than an hour.

The site will be going down tonight at midnight ET for a server move. The site should be back in 2 hours. I expect everything to be back up and working by 6 am.

Thanks in advance for your patience. The current virtual server hosting the site has been blowing up on show nights. The new set-up should be able to handle all the traffic.

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  1. 1 Steph Apr 13th, 2008 at 2:29 pm

    great!! i always have trouble getting on right after the show! i am so excited.

    Thanks for all your hard work, MJ!

  2. 2 Sarah Apr 13th, 2008 at 3:04 pm

    Yay MJ! I’d saved a direct link to chat for show nights, just in case I couldn’t get to the site because of all the traffic.

    You’re just a tad bit popular, it seems. ;) Hope the move goes well!

  3. 3 Bouffe Apr 13th, 2008 at 3:18 pm

    Hope everything goes smoothly!

  4. 4 Bobbi Apr 13th, 2008 at 3:24 pm

    Thanks so much for the warning, MJ! I would have freaked if I signed on tomorrow morning at my usual time of 5 a.m. and your site was gone. So glad you’re upgrading! Thanks for that too!

  5. 5 pj Apr 13th, 2008 at 3:37 pm

    Good luck with the transition, MJ. And thanks for all you do for us!

  6. 6 Lu Apr 13th, 2008 at 5:05 pm

    Thanks for everything MJ!!!! :)

  7. 7 abbysee Apr 13th, 2008 at 5:12 pm

    Thanks MJ. I hope I don’t have insomnia tonight or I don’t know what I will do with myself. When I first read this topic I thought it said Site Outrage, lol. I wanted to know what the hell happened, :)

  8. 8 sciencefan Apr 13th, 2008 at 6:39 pm

    Thank you mj.
    I appreciate you and your hard work here.

  9. 9 baxter Apr 13th, 2008 at 6:40 pm

    MJ- Good Luck and thanks for the upgrade. This site is like crack and if I don’t get my daily ( ahem…hourly) dosage, I get cranky. :)

  10. 10 MrsTrep Apr 13th, 2008 at 8:15 pm

    Thanks for all you do MJ!! You are the only place I need to visit to know all there is to know about AI!! Your hard work and dedication is greatly appreciated. If only TPTB would add you to their payroll!! Well, no we don’t want them controlling our favorite place, but you do a lot for the show!!

  11. 11 Lisa Apr 13th, 2008 at 11:36 pm

    Good Luck MJ and a big Thank You for everything you do for those of us addicted to Idol and your site! :smile_wp:

  12. 12 carolina Apr 14th, 2008 at 2:23 am

    We’re back ~

    mj, thanks for all you do!

  13. 13 mj Apr 14th, 2008 at 2:48 am

    Thanks Carolina,

    I realized the upgrade might take too long, so I’m postponing it for now. I might try it next weekend.

    I didn’t want to risk the site not being up for monday morning.

    Thanks for your patience guys!

  14. 14 primeminister Apr 14th, 2008 at 3:02 am

    Thank YOU, mj!

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