Conversion #1 is the first post in a series of posts to the blog comprising the chronicles of converting from phpBB2 to phpBB3 (also know as WBB3). As discussed in the topic (phpBB3 Conversion Begins Soon), the conversion will happen soon. I can confirm that it will not happen in the next 28 hours, but it will occur in roughly 13 days’ time as there are still a few last minute tasks that we must do in order to have a smooth conversion.

In the mean time, as we prepare for the conversion downtime, our Admins will perform prunes of topics in the Graveyard to minimize the number of topics we must convert over to WBB3. We will aim to have this done during off peak hours when our servers have most capacity, though we cannot say for certain that it will occur exactly during off-peak hours because it depends on the rate of pruning and whether or not we can meet our target of pruning nearly 4 million topics within 13 days’ time.

Please note that this is a conversion, almost all data will be retained in the process (e.g. all posts, all users, etc. is completely safe). Where we will lose some data is where some small and insignificant features are not yet implemented in WBB3 and such data will be discarded. For example, the saved options for whether or not to show the Wadio bar will not be kept because it is not implemented in WBB3, as we don’t think it is a feature worth having.

More posts to follow.

You may have noticed that moments ago our server experienced server load issues. This is due to the Admins pruning the Graveyard. We removed over 400K posts and 67K topics.

We’re currently combing through the database fixing the error that caused our site to stop yesterday. There was no data loss and we’ll be back within the next few hours once we have our database optimized.

Edit: We’re back up. We may be a bit slow because we’re pruning the Graveyard.

Hi all,

Just a few summarized updates:

1. Mail is back up, we’re currently sending out our backlog of 60K emails. The source of the mail problem has been fixed.

2. Registration will be enabled once the email backlog has been cleared.

3. Uptime, we’ve diagnosed the problem that caused the downtime and have now implemented a workaround as the source of the problem is fixed. The problem pertains to network connectivity issues.

After a few days of fixing up our email server, our emails are back which means registrations are back again.

See you on the forum!

We’re aware our main site is down at the moment and our team is working on bringing it back up.

Edit: There appears to be a router that our server routes through that has gone down . The datacenter has been notified and they’re replacing it as we speak. We’ll be back up soon.

Edit 2: The downtime won’t affect everyone, but it will affect a significant portion of our member base in case the site appears to be up for some of your friends you may be asking.

Edit 3 (19 July): Everything is operational again.

We’ve heard reports that our Search has bugged out, this is being fixed as we speak. It should all work again within 8 hours time.

Thank you for your patience.

After a long server downtime, our static server, along with a number of other services is slowly being brought back up.

Some services may still be broken due to the change of IP, but we’re hopeful we can bring everything back soon.

We’re currently down due to a lack of HDD space on our servers, we’re investigating what has sucked up all of the space.

Please be patient, we’ll be back soon.

Edit: We’re back up.

We’re continuously hitting an issue where the server keeps running out of memory. We’ll be increasing the SWAP size soon, but if anyone can help us getting more RAM, that would be great! Send a PM to an Admin if you’re interested (once the site is up again) or contact us via IRC. We will ask you to purchase RAM directly from the seller, as opposed to sending us money, so we aren’t opening donations, per se.

The specific ram we’re looking for is ECC DDR2 Fully Buffered DIMM (FBDIMM) 667 4GB or 8GB.

Edit: Thank you all those who sent in to support us.