Shutdown on 11/12th of June 2011 - Database switching

[cKleinhuis]

fyi:

after chatting with my provider i have now access to a 1gig mysql database, too bad it has to be transfered by hand, so
upon the next weekend this site will be switched to administration mode, for a few hours, after that the database problem can
be declared as solved.

too bad is that the webspace is still limited to 10gig, but can as well easily extended to  a bit more webspace, right now i am using
only 6 gigs of the space for all my sites, this just means that images sizes allowed to post as attachments and in the gallery wont
be extendet

it just means that we do not need to make a nifty double-server strategy for conserving old urls and switching to a dual site mode,
this is now no more neccessary

regards

[Madman]

Congrats on your negotiating skills, Christian! And thank you for all your time in keeping this great website up and running! If I ever run into you during the Oktoberfeste I'll treat you to a couple of   
 

[cKleinhuis]

, that would be great, but would more love to meet you all at a nice fractal expo in france rather than a beer expo in munich
in fact i am now paying halve the price than before ( it was a 10 years old contract ) and since one year now the forum is financing itself nearly 100% of its own!

next step is to improve merchandising stuff ( anyone interested in this years competition winners cups ? ) i do hope that i manage to release a nice ff calendar for 2012 as planned!