Motoko's Services are Being Moved to a New Site

Server Status: Up/Down

Server Notes
Motoko, our faithful servant now for almost 6 years, will be brought completely offline in the coming month to allow for us to cancel the DSL and get Comcast Cable internet service. For those of you who come over to my house it will be a VERY good thing as we'll be getting the 6 Meg up, 768K down kind, plus we know that the DSL SUCKS in the wind or rain, so we'll pick up stability, which is a huge plus.

"But what about my email/website/ventrilo server?! What will happen to it?" you ask.

Well, fear not. Though I'm not going to pay comcast some $30 a month to make it so that Motoko can sit on the cable line and make a lot of noise at my house and eat power and need cleaning and all those other annoying things that Motoko does, I WILL pay $25 to an offsite hosting company (www.godaddy.com) to host all of Motoko's services.

Enter Amalla. Amalla is the off site "Virtual Dedicated Server" that will host NQIG and all of it's affiliate sites. (The irony is that I was thinking about offering Virtual Dedicated Servers for you guys ^^; )

Soon, 5-10 days I suspect, I will complete bringing all of Motoko's services (Except for yours Oni. Sorry.) over to Amalla. After which Amalla will be about 80% functional, lacking only a few minor aspects of Motoko's functionality associated with DNS support (because I can't update the DNS records till they transfer. Oh ya, I'm transfering those to Go Daddy too because they're charging like 30% of what Network Solutions was.)

When the DNS services are complete, Motoko will be moved from primary functionality to secondary until we fully cancel the DSL service, after which time her hardware will be liberated for whatever devious means we might want to use it for. (Maybe add a vid card and make it a guest computer or something? No clue. I'm still working on that. She's only a Athelon 2000+ so she's kinda weak.)

There is an important note though: For the next week, I'm offlining the forum and recommending that if you actually want to see your data end up on Amalla, you resist uploading anything until I give the go-ahead. Since I'll be copying the data by hand, there's no promise that I may miss something you upload after I copy.

I may finish the copy today, or it may take me a week; I don't know. But I will make all reasonable effort to be prompt with the changeover to minimize the disturbance to services.

This is going to ROCK, but it's kinda scary. Never had a whole SERVER hosted in another location before. But I suspect things will go well.