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Happy Valentines Day

2012-02-14T08:48:00.000-08:00

Friends we wish you all A Very Happy Valentine's Day.

We hoped to wish you through the forums like every year but unfortunately due to some un-fortunate reasons we are wishing you all A Happy Valentine's Day through the blog.

Have a great day.

Sorry for the looooooooong delay friends

2012-02-12T08:57:00.000-08:00

Friends we are really sorry for keeping you in wait for so long. Some of the issues took more time than what was earlier anticipated.

We are having serious changes in the forum at a higher level. We will announce all the details once we are open, which we are expecting to happen very soon.

All the active Donors will get 2 month extension period to their subscription tenure.

Once again we really apologize for the inconvenience caused to.

Thanks for your support & patience.

Migration process initiated

2012-02-02T01:50:00.000-08:00

Friends at last after resolving all the issues and coming through major changes (which we will announce through forums once we are open again) we have started migration process.

Sorry again for the long extended delay friends, it was highly un-expected to take such a long time even for us.

Thanks once again for your constant support and understanding.

Background work under way

2012-01-29T11:04:00.000-08:00

Dear Friends,

Once again we would like to apologize for the extended delay. As promised we will send email to all users once we open up the forums.

Major changes are to be noted on the forums soon.
All Donors will be given 1 month additional access on their packs to cover up this downtime.

Once again thanks for your understanding, patience and support.

Sorry for the delay

2012-01-26T02:27:00.001-08:00

Dear Friends,

It looks like its going to take a few more days while all the issues are resolved.
We apologize for the in-convenience caused to you.

We will send email to all registered users once we open up the forum for the public.

Thanks for understanding and your support.

BF is under going server migration

2012-01-24T08:08:00.000-08:00

Friends,

We are migrating our servers to an off shore network to overcome certain issues.
We will be back soon. We do not have an E.T.A at the moment but do tune in to check the latest updates over here.

We apologize for the inconvenience caused to you.

Thanks for understanding.

BF is back

2011-08-08T08:08:00.000-07:00

Friends,

We are back on a new server and we have opened up the forums : http://www.bestforumz.com/forum

We are monitoring the load on new server and we sincerely hope it stands good and gives us an option to regroup back again.

Server Migration Complete

2011-08-07T14:15:00.000-07:00

friends,

we have completed successful server migration.
We will open up to the public pretty soon.

The only issue noted so far is the problem sending mails to rediff users. We are trying to fix this but this is going to take more than a couple of days as it needs manual work from more than a couple of organizations.

Migration underway

2011-08-07T11:51:00.000-07:00

Friends,

We have moved files to our new server. There have been few errors found up on migration.
We will be fixing them asap and try to get the server online for every one. One of the major error noted was with the Mail Delivery System which was throwing errors.

We hope to resolve the issues asap and get live action going.

Once again thanks for your patience.

Server Migration started

2011-08-07T09:45:00.000-07:00

Friends,

We have initiated the server migration process. We expect it to be complete with in the next 2 - 24 hours.

We are hoping no major issues result during the transition.

This move is to ensure the fix for the loads and errors which we were facing on BF for the past 3 - 4 days.

We will keep u updated about happenings over here.

Undergoing major changes

2011-08-05T07:47:00.000-07:00

Friends,

currently we are under going major changes, which include server migration. After the last crash, the new host have proven un-reliable with high loads and errors. They were unable to address our issues despite several attempts which lead to our announcement via forums that things should be working fine now, but that's not the case so far..

We are moving into a new host. The transition process is under way.
We apologize for the slow loads, errors and load messages.

We will keep u updated once we move on to the new host.

BF is working good

2011-08-02T13:30:00.000-07:00

Friends,

Now up on further testing we are confirming the forums are at full pace with out any issues.
If you face any kindly report them back to us @ www.bestforumz.com

Troubleshooting errors

2011-08-01T13:57:00.000-07:00

friends,

ever since we made few changes to make the forum load faster , there have been some errors popping up.

Currently, we are working closely with the support technicians to fix this up & get back to forums

We are back online - BF is online

2011-07-31T12:38:00.000-07:00

Friends,

we are pleased to announce BF is back online and there has been no data loss noted, a successful recovery has been made from the crashed HDD.

Join us back at bestforumz - www.bestforumz.com

Once again thanks for your patience.

Backing up started

2011-07-31T07:30:00.000-07:00

We have started backing up off the drives at our Data Center. Once the entire data is backed up, we will restore it on our new server.

We will be moving into a new host, as the current host is no more a reliable solution.

We will keep you updated.

once, again thanks for your patience.

Delay expected

2011-07-30T15:21:00.000-07:00

We are still waiting for a proper response from the host. As there was more than a few dozen servers crashed due to some malfunctioning, the response from our host hasn't been appreciable.

We will be giving time for the host to provide our back up with in a couple of days else we will restore the database as of almost 10 days older one.

Once, we would apologize to all our well wishers and BF friends. As, soon as BF opens up we will mail all the users.

Management

BF is down

2011-07-28T13:55:00.000-07:00

As u all noted, BF is currently down.
There has been a server crash, we are in process of recovering data from the backups.

We will let u know more once, the recovery is complete.

Apologize for the in-convenience caused to you.

BF is online !!!

2011-04-12T07:53:00.000-07:00

BF is back online now. Rather it went online on Sunday night.

Just forgot to mention it over here, as we expected members to be visiting BF directly.

Troubleshooting errors

2011-04-08T05:33:00.000-07:00

After moving the files, we seem to be going through some technical errors, we are trying to fix that up currently.

We will update soon.

*There will be no data loss. We have backups on multiple servers as well - which we could resort to if a necessity arises.

BF will be back in apporx 24hrs

2011-04-07T12:59:00.000-07:00

BF will be back in approximately 24 hours - 48hours at the most.
This is the time frame because the dns changes have to propagate.

We are making a change in location of server and we will back with more info soon.

BF will be back with some changes around for more easier browsing to all the members.

Cricket Contest winners declaration after BF is up

2011-04-07T12:57:00.000-07:00

As u all know World Cup Cricket Contest was a grand success, we will announce the winner officially and the winner will be rewarded as promised.

We will do this after BF is up and running.

Winners will be requested to post proof of their rewards after we issue it to them.

Forums Upgraded

2011-03-08T08:05:00.000-08:00

Forums have been upgraded to the latest 3.8 release.
See you guys back in the forums ;)

Forums are being upgraded

2011-03-08T07:22:00.000-08:00

Forums upgrade work has began at last ;)

We are expecting to be back with in an hour i.e 10 PM - GMT +5.5hrs

Forums Upgrade process will begin shortly

2011-03-08T04:46:00.000-08:00

Database has been backed up and even the important files/folders.

We will start forum upgrade process shortly, it would include:

1. Uploading the new files.
2. Editing templates to meet the new upgraded template requirements.
3. Checking out for possible errors.

The above process should take no more than 1 hour.

Backup Underway

2011-03-08T03:18:00.001-08:00

Currently, we are backing up server files and databases. Once, this is completed we will go ahead with the uploading of the upgrade necessary files.

BF is offline now

2011-03-08T03:17:00.000-08:00

As we are planning to upgrade the forums - we have taken the board offline so that no data loss occurs if a necessity for restoring the content is required.

BestForumz Up Online !!!

2011-02-19T10:49:00.001-08:00

Friends,

The long await is over. We are back ;)
Forums have been opened up exactly an hour ago.

Meet you in forums www.bestforumz.com :)

We are almost ready

2011-02-19T07:30:00.000-08:00

We are almost ready friends :)

We have fixed almost all the issues that was occurring around.
We will be looking forward to meet u back at the forums very shortly :)

Thanks for your patience :)

Forum open for Admins and co-Admins

2011-02-18T11:04:00.000-08:00

Forums are now open to Administrators and co-Administrators to log on and check settings around.

There are still a few pending issues to be dealt with, this is causing a delay in the public opening up of the forums.

We are planning to open the forums on Saturday or Sunday at the most.
We will be sending mail to users after forums are open to all users.

Thanks for your patience.

Date bug fixed

2011-02-18T03:52:00.001-08:00

The bug which we encountered with the dates has been fixed successfully.

We are currently making a final test in the interface to check if still there any bugs that are to be found.

Will keep u updated :)

Few bugs noted

2011-02-17T08:57:00.000-08:00

We have noted few bugs after the server migration, we are in the process of trying to fix them.
These bugs are very minor related to date-settings.

Optimization under way

2011-02-17T07:12:00.000-08:00

We are currently optimizing the scripts for the best performance.
What this does is : It will increase forum loading speed and decrease the loads.
Which would help every one in a great fashion.

We are planning to go online on or before Friday with all the optimizations been done & double checked along with the other tasks.

We might be sending Testing Mails to few accounts, so kindly excuse us - as we are testing Mail Delivery System.

Once again thanks for your patience.

Work Still On

2011-02-16T12:45:00.000-08:00

We are still working on with certain processes.

We want to fix up all the issues, before we open the forums for everyone. We don't want to close the forums now and again to fix issues.

Thanks for your patience

PixTreat has been restored

2011-02-16T07:07:00.000-08:00

As most of you are aware of the downtime of PixTreat since 22nd January 2011, its no longer a wait.

We were able to restore the data on a new server after the server crash mess we had with earlier host.

We have lost 4 days data ranging from 18th January 2011 to 22nd January 2011.

You can visit www.pixtreat.com now and start uploading your content :)
We are making daily backups now to prevent further data loss :)

Database fixed

2011-02-16T06:27:00.000-08:00

We have fixed the database.

Now, forums offline message could be noted, that's an indication of our fix.

We are still working on few issues, will keep u updated :)

Once again thanks for your patience.

DNS is up

2011-02-16T04:35:00.000-08:00

DNS is up and ready.

You might have noted forums giving database error if you tried to access any page of the forums. That's a confirmation of our server migration :p

We are currently fixing some database related tasks and certain permissions for the forums.

Thanks for your patience.

DNS Set

2011-02-15T06:50:00.000-08:00

DNS has been set up. We have completed moving files in the meanwhile.

Once, DNS is up and ready - we will cross check with the settings and once we confirm everything is working good, we will open up the forums.

Thanks for your patience.

BestForumz is Migrating Servers

2011-02-15T06:04:00.001-08:00

Dear friends,

As we are migrating servers at the moment, we had decided to take down the forums to prevent data loss.

We have added higher RAM, Space and bandwidth in our new server to accommodate our larger needs.

We expect to be back with in a few days time.

We do apologize for the downtime, but this is mandatory as we are intending to fix all the issues and have ourselves ready for the best in future.

Once again thanks for the wait, we certainly hope this is one of the last server migrations we might have to consider in the near future :)

We will update you regarding the current status on this blog.

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Regards,
BF Administration Team