Phoenix forum down

Seems something has happened to our site. We don't know what.

The main forum is back up and running

I am pleased to announce that our main forum is back up and running. While we did lose the posts from 19 March to 2 April, everything else appears to be functional.

I'll be moving over my sims ASAP.

Phoenix rises from the ashes!

Phoenix is back on the old address! It's only a holding page at the moment, but it should be fully back in the next couple of days.

Ash sent this message by email to Phoenix members and has given me permission to post it here.

Hi all,

Euan and I caught up and covered a lot of ground. He's away at a wedding this weekend, but has already made the first steps on the road to the Phoenix rising from the ashes once again. He's getting started on the real nuts and bolts on Monday and aims to bring us a sitrep and action plan then. Meanwhile, the group Jason assembled now includes Euan as well and has started in on emailing one another sentences including strings of letters like 'SQL' nd 'BigTable' which I'm not tech-savy enough to understand. :-)

But we now have a phoenix.roleplaying google account, which Euan is putting the forum's app engine stuff down on, the details of which can be passed on from TC to TC. He's also putting together a holder page asap, and we'll announce the URL as soon as it's ready. It looks like we don't need to find a host that charges, as google is likely reliable and provides a very good service for free. So those of you who were willing to donate now won't have to, unless you'd like to donate towards advertising costs. I may need to look into legal issues around that, however, before we go ahead, so keep your wallets in your pockets for now!

So, on Monday or soon thereafter, expect updates on how soon the renewed site will be available to post on.

Shalom,

Ash

We'll keep you up to date.

Phoenix Roleplaying is back!

Phoenix Roleplaying is back up! Our new temporary forum is located at:

http://phoenixrp.forumotion.com

Hopefully, we will soon be back at our old URL, but this will act as a "courtesy plane" for the time being.

The current situation

Right now, we're looking for a new host for our forums, so we can get back in business.

Hopefully this won't take too long. In the meantime, how about helping us improve the Wiki? Jason Andersen is the man to go to about getting access.

Also, today is the 50th anniversary of the first human spaceflight. As space travel features of our RPs, it is worth remembering those first pioneers.

Editorial: Update on our technical situation

Basically, the hosts have pulled our site, on what is "most likely a violation of the TOS". They can't even properly explain why they've taken down our site. Bunch of amateurs in my opinion...

The full correspondence is here if you want to read it.

Basically, we've got to find another host. Technical Coordinator Euan Reid isn't sure how long that will take.

Even worse, we appear to have lost the last three weeks worth of posting - our last backup appears to be from 19 March. Shame, there's been some good stuff recently.

We'll keep you informed. Now, if you excuse me, I'm off to play Battlefield 2 and vent my frustrations that way.

The Phoenix will fly again. We've just had to make an emergency landing.

Major technical difficulties

Phoenix is currently experiencing some major technical issues - we hope to sort these out soon.

Site back up again

The site appears to be back up again.

Site down again

Phoenix has gone down again. I will update you with any further information.

Downtime over

The move to a new host is complete; the site is back up. There may be further downtime over the next 48 hours.

Site currently down

Phoenix RP is currently down to our domain servers switching over to a new host. We should be back up shortly.