hi all,

I'm pleased to make this announcement that with all the kind donations we are now able to move to the new server.  We have been hosted by Hostgator for over 4 years and it's time to move onwards and upwards, we would like to thank hostgator for the hosting that they have provided but all good things must come to an end.

I have been working on finding the best hosting for the site and this has taken more time than i expected but i have found an excellent host and that host is interserver.net, we will be using their cloudVPS hosting package so it will mean a BIG jump in available resources.

When will it happen and what will happen.

OK, I've set the date of the Thursday 4th July will be the move day, the process will be as follows.

At 10am BST (5am EST, 11am CET) the site will go to read only.  what that will mean that you will be able to read any forum posts, read the stories but you wont be able to reply to any forum messages nor post any new material or comment on the stories.

During that time I back up the site, and download the back up, load it on my home server and make some important changes to the site, this process will take 2 hours.

I will then upload the site backup to the new server this will take 90 mins or less, once the backup is on the server I will restore the site to the new server.

While I’m doing this the address (www.superwomenmania.com) will have it's DNS records changed so that it will point to the new server and not the old one, this part will take anything from 1 min to 24 hours for people's web browser to point to the new server this part is outside of my control so if it takes longer i'm sorry there is nothing I can do.

Once the site is on the new server and is up and running I will then be happy.

There might be bugs, issues and even a server crash in the week after the site moves, if there is there will be a ton of info on the facebook group page to let you know what has happened.

Once again thank you to all the donator's who are making this possible.

Fats

Hi all,

I thought it might be a good idea to post something here as this is the new blog software.  For the geeks out there this new software is called K2, it's a very powerful bit of kit, eventually it will replace the software that powers the library and the image galleries as well, so it will reduce the workload on both the server and staff as there will be one place in the backend for all the content to be edited/organised.

With the recent outage of the site I have been working on ways to mitigate the server load to make the site more stable while keeping the functionality of the site intact.  The wordpress blog took quite a lot of the server load and since that has been removed the site has seen to be faster and more stable, which I think we can all agree is a good thing.  The image galleries are going to be disabled from Saturday 14th june, the galleries will be down for a week, this is to allow me to make changes to the set up to prevent hotlinking of content which was a major cause in the outage we suffered, other work that is going on in the background is the changing from Joomla 2.5 to joomla 3.2 which is going on, it was postponed when I had my house broken into but now that I have been able to replace all the missing kit I can restart the development of the site and it's upgrade of the base system that underlines the site.

Getting away from the tech stuff i would like to express my sincere thanks to all the writers and artists who have contributed new material to the site over the last few months, it shows to me that we don't need workshops to get writers to publish excellent new material.

One last thing that I would like to put out there. What do you think would make the site better, is there one thing or many things that you think would make the place better to visit?

Let me know in the comments below.

Fats