The server the TLO website is hosted on is need of some major maintenance, this will require us to take the website offline for a few hours.
During the downtime we will have a landing page up in place of the website, this will contain updates direct from myself regarding the progress of the maintenance, and contact details in case of any issues.
The planned start time for this maintenance is Friday 21st October 2016 @ 4PM EDT (9PM BST). We expect to have everything back online within 10 hours, though I will work as fast as I can to bring everything back online.
During the downtime I will be on the TLO Discord.
If you have any questions about this maintenance, feel free to post below.
Just a quick reminder that this Friday, so in 5 days (18 Hours 45 Minutes), the TLO website will go down for maintenance.
Only the website will be affected, the RPG-X servers and Discord will remain available.
If there are any bugs or issues that you know of, please let me know below. Whilst I have the site offline for maintenance, I can attempt to fix these also. I can't promise to fix everything reported here (unless nothing is reported :P ) during the downtime, but I will try and fix the majority in the time I have, then work on the rest over a couple of days after the site is back online.
REMINDER!
This is today!
The TLO site will be unavailable for up to 10 hours tonight from 9PM BST (4PM EDT) for maintenance.
I will be available on Discord throughout the downtime and contactable via that or my email.
During the downtime there will be a temporary redirect in place for the main TLO site, this page will contain all vital contact details should you need to contact myself or another member of TLO staff.
This maintenance will NOT be affecting the RPG-X Servers or STO, only the website.
I will try and minimise the downtime as much as I can. From 9PM (4PM EDT), the TLO site will go read only for roughly an hour, last minute backups will be taken at this time. A note to any staff with admin access, any changes made past 9PM may be lost and will be unrecoverable. Roughly 10PM BST (5PM EDT) the site will go offline for the main part of the maintenance. Should the redirect not work for you, the maintenance landing page will be located at maintenance.last-outpost.net, should you need any of the contact details.
Also, if you know of any errors or bugs with the site, please let me know below and I will try and get them fixed whilst the site is down.
I apologise in advance for this disruption in service, but it is, unfortunately, necassary.
MAINTENANCE COMPLETE!
There was an unexpected issue that resulted in the maintenance taking 22 1/2 hours too long, so I'd like to apologise about the extended downtime.
Everything should be up and running again. As of writing this, there appears to be a bug with the font TLO uses, the site has reverted to the default font, I will look into this after I've had a chance to sleep properly (5:40AM here).
You can now access the website on HTTPS if you wish to do so. https://last-outpost.net.
Quite a bit on the back end has changed, so if you encounter any issues, please post them below or let me know. I'll keep this thread unlocked for a few days just in case.