Editorial Team

For more info, [4 Feb - 6 Oct] - Website: Progress Journal (Update 7) 

06 Oct 2024

Hi everyone,

This is to inform you that our webhosting provider have sent us the notification email today and our website will be moved to a new, upgraded server technology.  They will doing this on

07 OCTOBER 2024

We will therefore do a final backup copy of our website's contents on

06 OCTOBER 2024
AT 21H00 EST / 02H00 GMT / 03H00 CET

This means any activity on the website after that date and time will not be saved and copied over to our new server. So we advise you to not save anything such as texts or books or pictures or create messages or comments on the website at that point.

PoetBay will be offline (inaccessible) for at least a span of 24-48hrs (but we're advised by the webhost that it could be 72 hrs if they run up against any issues during the migration) because our website's new location address needs time to propagate around on the world wide web.

We should be back online on

08 OCTOBER 2024

If we're not, please don't worry. We will be back as soon as possible.

Please share this information with all PoetBay members you know who may not have seen our updates on the situation. Thanks!

Isabelle 

06 Oct | Update 7

Hi everyone,

Finally, we received the notification email this morning of when the migration will be taking place, and if everything goes according to what the webhost informed us, it's happening in the early hours of tomorrow morning EST / GMT / CET -- we received the notification at 02h23 EST / 07h23 GMT / 08h23 CET this morning, and it instructs that the process begins 24 hrs after reception of the email.  So we're guessing the process should begin at those times tomorrow.

We have no idea if our code will function properly on this new server, 'cause despite our many attempts to obtain the server's new specs, our webhost was not able to provide them to us, for some reason.  So we're going totally blind as to whether this will have an impact on the functionality of our website or not.  Admittedly, this is causing us an enormous amount of stress... 

But we want you to know that if we're faced with such a situation, we will of course do everything to restore its functionality as quickly as possible like the last time when the webhost put us in this sort of position.  Hopefully, this is not what's going to happen... but letting you know in case it unfortunately turns out that way.

Bunch of clowns this webhost, I swear... ugh.  Really sorry we can't be more reassuring than that at the moment... it's not exactly how we like to do things, but the webhost didn't provide us with any information that is specific about their process.

Here's to hoping... be back in a bit

Isabelle

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05 Oct | Update 6

Hi everyone,

We got word from our webhost finally on 30 Sep to let us know that in a week, they'll proceed with the migration of our site to a new server.  I still don't know why they announced this to us last May!  Incredible, really... the're so disorganized, it's ridiculous.  But anyway, they're supposed to send us an email a day before which we expect will be arriving on Monday, if everything goes according to what they told us this time.  We'll let you know as soon as we're notified.

Hope you are all well.  Be back in a bit...

Isabelle

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 05 July | Update 5

Hi everyone,

After many back and forth emails with our webhosting provider, as usual (it's always a very, very long process on account that English isn't their mother tongue and they're not exactly the most organized bunch I've come across so far!), we finally got out of them that they actually do not know at this time when the migration of our website to the new server will be scheduled yet, 'cause they are doing their migrations in a sequential order and they're not yet to ours.  Again, they said they'll notify us prior to the migration to inform us of the date.  So, as soon as they finally confirm it to us, we'll let you know when our turn comes.

We also found out that we will be keeping our current contract (even though a previous contact from them informed us otherwise!), so our costs won't be affected.  We're very happy about that.

Hope you are all well.  Be back in a bit...

Isabelle

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 17 June | Update 4

Hi everyone,

We haven't heard from the webhost yet about when our migration will be taking place.  We're guessing it will be soon, going by their last message announcing it will be around 13 June.  We'll let you know as soon as they make contact.

Hope you are all well... Be back in a bit.

Isabelle

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14 May | Update 3

Hi everyone,

So, we heard back from our webhosting provider and they informed us this time that our site's migration to their new equipment (server) is planned for around 13 June - our webhost says they'll contact us 7 days before to confirm the date.  We will of course make an official announcement to the community when we get the date of when this migration will take place. 

We were considering changing webhosting provider and possibly moving everything over to Canada, but the webhosting costs here are way too expensive which would force us to up our prices... something we don't want to do.  So, for now, since they dropped this on us last notice really, we'll stay with the same provider until we can hopefully find a better alternative...

We're feeling pretty disappointed that our webhost is going to be putting us through this again.  We're also hoping that this migration won't cause us the same issues we encountered in 2019.  Unfortunately, we'll only find out when we're switched over, 'cause despite our many requests for the new server system's specs, our webhost is apparently currently unable to provide us with that information yet... it's not the greatest position to be put in.  But whatever happens, we'll do everything to make sure PoetBay runs as it should.  We'll keep you informed.

Hope you are all well... Be back in a bit.

Isabelle

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3 May | Update 2

Hi everyone,

We were successful in reorganizing things on our end and we were just about to start back on the code when our webhost informed us that they were terminating our plan on 31 May to make us move to their newer technologies.  So, this means a migration of our site to a new server... which could create problems as we encountered in 2019 when our webhost had made the same decision.  

So now we are considering changing the webhosting service... possibly in Canada.  So we have this to sort out first before we can get back to our work.  We'll provide more details as soon as possible.

I hope you are all well... Be back in a bit.

Isabelle

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4 Feb | Update 1

Hi everyone,

Things didn't exactly pan out as we had hoped last year what with our jobs and then my health joining in the fray.  We simply did not have the required time to get back to the code, and we're really sorry about that.  However, in saying that, we want to let you know that we are currently reorganizing things on our end so that we can give it a blitz and finish this thing!  My darling will be leaving his job in April, taking time off for a few months before starting another job, and he will finish the framework we've worked on so we can finally move on to new stuff for the site.  We're really, really looking forward to it!

I hope you are all well... Be back in a bit.

Isabelle