Website went down for about 6 hours or so

[mouser]

Sunday Morning Downtime:

The hosting company had scheduled maintenance that was supposed to take less than 30 minutes.
It ended up taking 6 or 7 hours.  Seems back up now though i'm not 100% convinced it won't go down again as they complete the process.

[Carol Haynes]

Thought you might be risking the forum upgrade ...

[AbteriX]

Iam glad the community is back...
i was a little bit nervous this afternoon (MEZ) (Forum Time 14:20, my Time 20:20)

[brotherS]

Would be nice if you could announce down-times that you know about here (and add a "might take longer" ) - then we won't need to hit F5 for hours

[mouser]

yes, i usually try to pre-announce preplanned downtimes, i apologize for that, i simply forgot this one was planned (it was done by the hosting company not me), and it was supposed to be only a few minutes.  hahah i know, i'm learning that's often just wishfull thinking

maybe we should set up like a separate alternate place where if the site goes down people can go for more info and discussion; like an offsite blogger.com page or something.  seems like a good idea. i'll set it up.

also people, if you ever find the site down you can join us for chat on our irc channel, which i am on most of the time.  more info here:
http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=772.0

(irc visitors even found out about a secret unreleased donationcoder.com app on the irc channel the other day, so that's more incentive for you )