Frank Hagan

Sorry about that. The database is having issues with some character sets and I'm working on resolving it.

It looks like the move was successful, and we are back up. I still need to do some server configuration so there may be some minor hiccups over the next few days.

We are once again moving servers to one with more memory and (anticipated) better response times. I expect this to take place this evening, July 21, 2024 and hope there isn't more than just a few hours of downtime.

With flying colors! Or, the site corrected itself anyway.

It's an annual thing. I send out an email with a link about a month before it's time to renew. You can see two dates in your profile, "Supporting member since" and "supporting member until". Yours doesn't come up for renewal until September. I do it that way because many people are very active while building their boat, but not so much after they finish, so they may only want to support and use the site for a year or two.

There was a bug fix update just before I saw your message so I think this time (at least this time) a bug fix rolled out before I knew there was a bug!

Now back to my profile. Testing this response.

According to his webmaster, Keith, Tom is no longer selling plans. This is from his email to me this past May.

Thanks! You should get a confirmation email soon.

Hi Captain Tim - you can donate for another year at this link. Thanks!

Thanks for that! It can be challenging at times. I'm hoping this one goes quickly when the transfer happens. There's a bit of work after that because the IP address will change when we move, but hopefully it won't be a long drawn out process.

A fire in the data center is requiring our server to be moved. There may be some downtime over the next 24 hours while this is done, but the data center host assures me that we won't run into the problems we had last June. I apologize for the inconvenience!

Do you have a YouTube channel with your sailing adventures? My wife and I watch several of the sailing channels, and I'd love to see the Spindrift in action for cruisers.

As you can see we lost a couple of messages here with the botched move to a new server. I apologize for that. The hosting company was not able to migrate the mailboxes on our customer's sites so I had to revert to the old server. Evidently "complete migration" doesn't include your email addresses or inboxes.

Sometime in the next two weeks I'll be upgrading the server again. The forums will be down for 2 or 3 days. I'm adding faster NVMe SSD drives, more "reserved" resources (RAM, disk space) and moving to a new data center that is connected to the famed One Wilshire data center in Los Angeles. Most of you won't see a difference because of this, but it should provide faster response time for our members in Australia and New Zealand. We are also expecting the move to reduce the number of "momentary freezes" that have been happening on our older, less resource heavy server. No one has complained, but they drive me nuts. This move is only possible because of our Supporting Members and ad revenue that helps keep us up and running. Thanks to all of you!