Mudderoy
01-13-2010, 03:26 PM
I have sent out an e-mail to all members with this dismal news.
We found out today that to upgrade to a better and much faster Internet we xjtalk could be down up to 6 days. Best case it may only be a few hours on January 19th. No one was able to say exactly.
The current service may be terminated at any time. The new service should be in place this coming Tuesday (Jan. 19th) but you may not be able to get to the servers for several days as DNS gets updated around the world.
DNS basically converts the web address you type in www.xjtalk.com to a numeric address. Since we will be getting NEW numeric addresses the DNS much change and all the DNS servers around the world will have to be updated.
This is an automatic process and the time it takes is dependent on how each DNS server is configured.
The DNS (Domain Name Server) server you use to translate www.xjtalk.com into a numeric addres (IP address) may update quickly and your outage may be very short, there is just no way to know for sure.
Every member is very important to us and we tried numerous ways to make this a transparent transition, however short of spending a few hundred dollars we are unable to accomplish this.
This is a hobby site that is run without membership fees, or charge to our vendors. Unfortunately this also means that when we make changes there are potential outages like this so we can keep the costs down.
*** The actual GOOD news is that your access to the xjtalk servers should be about twice as fast once service is restored!
We found out today that to upgrade to a better and much faster Internet we xjtalk could be down up to 6 days. Best case it may only be a few hours on January 19th. No one was able to say exactly.
The current service may be terminated at any time. The new service should be in place this coming Tuesday (Jan. 19th) but you may not be able to get to the servers for several days as DNS gets updated around the world.
DNS basically converts the web address you type in www.xjtalk.com to a numeric address. Since we will be getting NEW numeric addresses the DNS much change and all the DNS servers around the world will have to be updated.
This is an automatic process and the time it takes is dependent on how each DNS server is configured.
The DNS (Domain Name Server) server you use to translate www.xjtalk.com into a numeric addres (IP address) may update quickly and your outage may be very short, there is just no way to know for sure.
Every member is very important to us and we tried numerous ways to make this a transparent transition, however short of spending a few hundred dollars we are unable to accomplish this.
This is a hobby site that is run without membership fees, or charge to our vendors. Unfortunately this also means that when we make changes there are potential outages like this so we can keep the costs down.
*** The actual GOOD news is that your access to the xjtalk servers should be about twice as fast once service is restored!