Hello,
The Gramps website (consisting primarily of a WordPress 'blog',
MediaWiki 'wiki' and MantisBT 'bugtracker') has been with the
current
hosting service for several years now, and overall it has been
good.
We are on what they (GoDaddy) call their 'Shared' website
hosting, however,
the volume of visitors to the Gramps website has out grown this
shared service.
We are migrating to a managed VPS (Virtual Private server) host,
with a new
hosting company (A2 Hosting
https://www.a2hosting.com/
) that should allow for a more responsive website.
This is currently planned to occur between the 8th to the 11th
of November 2019.
So at some point in the next few days, there will be a time when
the
website will not be available. Initially, it will just be that
editing has
been turned off, esp. for bugtracker and wiki. They should
still be
available for viewing as I do the final backup of the live
databases and
files.
But at the point we make the 'cut over', there will be some down
time
where
gramps-project.org will not be
available. It will all be done as
quickly as possible, and with fingers crossed that everything
comes up
again as it should be.
Once the new site is into place, I'll write again - asking you
to test
things out thoroughly!
A big thank you to all who have donated to fund this change.
-
Sam Manzi
Volunteer Website Administrator
The Gramps Project
https://gramps-project.org/
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