Well, it's been a frustrating few hours. I had this all planned out and tested with the new site set up and forums loaded. Unfortunately, when the time came to move the up-to-date files over, Mr. Murphy stepped in like a double feed in a firefight.
Between corrupted download files, an ISP that decided to drop the line every 8 minutes and a bit of rage that destroyed the mouse, we weren't sure it could be done.
Once again to the rescue, Mike Turber and Spark of
www.BladeForums.com . With threir dedication on this Friday night, we made the switch.
Thanks to Mike for his time and the use of his two way cable modem and Spark for his technical advice and adjustments. Most especially, thanks to both for hosting this site. We now reside on the BladeForums' server. We can expect fast loading and reliable performance at great rates.
Notes on the system: we're not completely debugged yet. The system may require you to reset your preferences and profile. These two tabs ("prefs" and "profile") at the top right of the Forum Summary Page allow you to reset your password, tell the system to remember your user name and password and other options. Please check them out before emailing us with problems.
You'll note that our new homepage is "http://216.199.9.84". Here's the explanation:
The numbers refer to a location (URL) on the Web (Mike and Spark's Server). The homepage tiltle "www.thefiringline.com" still points to our old server. Therefore, if you go to www.thefiringline.com, you'll come up to the old location and be transferred here.
Within the next few days the site name "www.thefiringline.com" will commence to point to the server we're currently on. When that change is effected by the Internet God, http://216.199.9.84 will be synonymous with http://thefiringline.com. When that happens you should redo your bookmarks to point, once again, to http://www.thefiringline.com.
Welcome home TFL'ers!
Rich Lucibella
[This message has been edited by Rich Lucibella (edited June 05, 1999).]
