[Kieran]

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I have to say that I think the latest bout of downtime could have easily been avoided.

I accept what you were trying to do with the moving into my.xilo but you should always test something in a development environment before affecting the live version - we should have had the forum live while you worked on a copy and then when it all worked there should have been a tiny amount of downtime before moving over to the new system.

Also, before you bring the forum down, some notice would be nice, I mean unless its a critical security upgrade would it really hurt to post up an announcement a day or so in advance saying about the downtime and how long it is likely to last?

One of the reasons the use of this forum is not as high as it could be in my humble opinion is because of how much downtime there is. I've been running forums for years and while I'm not saying you don't know how to run a forum, the amount of avoidable downtime on here is just not how things are done.
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