There will be a short delay while I change hosts

Like the title says. My host is giving me endless and bizarre issues, and after discussing it with wiser heads, it's becoming clear that my problems are probably linked to its scrubbers for its shared hosting.

Result: I'm shifting to another host, with a dedicated (albeit virtual) server. This should improve things immensely, not just now but for the future. The downside: a few more days delay.

Somebody should do something to fix everything.

OK, so I started the migration to beta last night. That is to say, I put up all the files and database entries, merging the latter with existing membership.

Here's the rub. As soon as I had done this, the server stopped working. When I got through to my host (on the other side of the Atlantic), they told me the server I was being hosted on was having problems, and would be fixed over the next few hours.

No problem, happens to everyone. Problem is, it's now most of a day later, and while some static pages are working, anything reasonably strenuous falls over. I'm fairly sure it's not my code; things that worked fine before are giving nothing now.

So this is currently a seriously abortive launch. Will give my host another day or two, but then will have to think about hosting elsewhere. Which would be a great shame, as my host offers good rates and uses only green energy. Would be a shame to lose them.

Prepare for landing

So, after a weekend of finding last-minute bugs and tweaking difficulty, it's time to start work on actually putting things up there. Over the next few days I will be migrating the underlying database, before uploading all the new software and finally getting this thing on the road.

Nearly there...

OK, so I'm running out of excuses to not make a beta release. All obvious bugs have been sorted, and now I'm down to playtesting the various generic characters. I cannot see a way to avoid making this happen on the upcoming weekend.