The Flat Earth Society Forum and Wiki will be down for maintenance for up to an hour, starting at 08:00 UTC on 2013-12-22.
For convenience, this means:
EST (USA east coast):
2013-12-22, 03:00
UTC (UK):
2013-12-22, 08:00
AEST (Australia east coast):
2013-12-22, 19:00
I don't expect to use the full hour, but I'm scheduling this window to allow for the unforeseen.
The intent is to switch to using our
git-tracked forum source in production, which is going to be hosted under a separate account on the same VPS which is better-managed for deployment. This will also enable us to test changes before deploying them, resulting in less unexpected downtime when things break.
Since SMF is really dumb about the way it stores its configuration, this will involve dumping, editing and re-importing the database to change a bunch of stuff to account for the new setup. I'm also taking advantage of this window to install OS security updates on the VPS hosting the forum and wiki, which is why the wiki is also affected.
I will be putting up a static maintenance page during the cutover to inform visitors of the situation and when the website is expected to be operational again.
Thank you for understanding.