As this is by far the most active of our <FONT FACE="comic sans ms">Liftlines BBS</FONT> sections, I've opted to crosspost the following message from our <FONT FACE="comic sans ms">System Annoucements</FONT> section. <BR> <BR><FONT FACE="comic sans ms">First Tracks!! Online Ski Magazine</FONT> is proud to announce that it will transition from a virtual server, stored on a partition shared on one of our web host's servers, to its own dedicated server in the racks of our northern Virginia-based web host. This transition will ensure our ability to deliver more content to you with faster transfer times. <BR> <BR>If all goes according to plan, we'll be flipping the switch on the DNS changes to the new server during our historically slow overnight hours this weekend. While the transition should be seamless and invisible to most users, folks should understand that it may take anywhere from zero to 48 hours for the DNS changes to be propagated across the Internet to each ISP's DNS cache. <BR> <BR>What does this mean to you? It means that for anywhere from zero to 48 hours after our transition to a new, dedicated server, your own ISP may still be routing you to <FONT FACE="comic sans ms">First Tracks!! Online Ski Magazine</FONT> stored on our old server. If you're one of the unfortunate few to be routed to the old server for an extended time you won't be able to see any changes implemented to <FONT FACE="comic sans ms">First Tracks!! Online Ski Magazine</FONT> after the transition occurs, including postings to the <FONT FACE="comic sans ms">Liftlines BBS</FONT>. Likewise, if you're one of those to whom the DNS changes come late in the game, any postings that you may make to the <FONT FACE="comic sans ms">Liftlines BBS</FONT> will not appear on the new server. <BR> <BR>By scheduling these changes during the overnight hours, we hope to minimize the impact that these changes may have. Due to the nature of DNS propagation across the Internet to all ISPs, this is a situation that we do have the opportunity to minimize, but cannot eliminate. We thank you for your patience in this process, and hope that you'll share with us the excitement that these changes will bring to <FONT FACE="comic sans ms">First Tracks!! Online Ski Magazine</FONT>. <BR> <BR>We will update you regarding the progress of the transition as it occurs.
