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SpaceBass
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 		 Server Migration / Now Accepting Donations
Some of you may have noticed problems with intermittent service to the forums over the past weekend, especially when the Slashdot flood came and took the server down for an hour or two on Saturday. I am in the process, along with the help of leftbrained and the fine moderators and admins of these forums, of migrating these forums to a new server, with more processing power, more room, and most importantly, more bandwidth. We are working hard to make this change as quickly and seamlessly as possible, and hopefully before whatever happens when the SPDR countdown hits zero.

For over two years, I've run this site to try to give something back to the community I love. I've never been willing to support the costs of hosting through ads or subscription fees, and I am still commited to keeping it free for anyone to use to discuss this genre and to play these great games. People have asked me for a long time to accept donations in order to help support this site and I have always refused. I've paid for this out of my own pocket, leasing a dedicated server in Texas at the great dedicated host, ServerBeach.

However, the reality now is that I can't afford to run this all by myself, although I am still committed to the same monthly costs that I've been paying for two years. It is with an extremely heavy heart that I have buckled under and added a donations button to the footer of these forums. Any donations received will go directly to defraying the costs of running these forums and providing new features and services if possible.

I want to be absolutely clear that donations are NOT required. This site will always be free to use and free of ads as long as is humanly possible. Only donate if you want to, and only donate what you can afford.

If you make a donation, please include your unforum username, if you have registered, and a website link if you'd like me to link to your site from the main unfiction pages. If you're a lurker and wish to donate, let me know what name or nick under which you would like me to thank you. You should be able to do this either in the donation comment box or by sending me an email at SpaceBass at Unfiction dot com (which should also include the email address from which you sent your donation). That address is the one to use when donating by PayPal as well.

I'm really sorry that it's even come to this point and I would greatly appreciate any help I can get.
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SpaceBass
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 		Corrected form to allow comments. :/
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 		As you may have noticed, UnFiction and the UnFiction forums have been undergoing some unexpected (though not undesired) growth as of late.

Due to the burgeoning influx of traffic, it has become necessary to move the site to a server more capable of handling the number of people currently visting.

Unfortunately, this means there will have to be a certain (short!) amount of downtime while we transfer over to the new server. During that time, you will find the forums to be "locked" while the databases and files are transfered. We are hoping that this will be a relatively short process that will not cause undue stress to our loyal forum members and guests, nor get any of them behind in any fabulous ARG discoveries.

Once the forums have been relocated to the new server, we will be redirecting you to the new forums via an IP address until the actual domain name is transfered and propagated as well. Please watch for that announcement both here on the forums, and in chat.

We thank you for your continued support and understanding while we expand to meet your needs.


Questions? Please direct them to the "General/Updates" forum
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SpaceBass
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 		Back up!
As you can see the migration is complete, thanks to the talented Leftbrained! Thanks for your patience!
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 		As you may see, everything's done, and I've successfully been able to start another post with the words, "As you."

Very nice job with the migration! Very Happy
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