[Slackbuilds-users] All SlackBuilds.org services migrated - Sat May 20 03:04:17 UTC 2017

[Edward Koenig]

> On May 19, 2017, at 8:04 PM, Robby Workman <rworkman at slackbuilds.org> wrote:
> 
> As willysr mentioned in his earlier Updates mail, we have officially
> migrated all SlackBuilds.org services to virtual machines hosted on
> our new hardware provided by combined donations from our datacenter
> ( http://onyxlight.net ), DistroWatch ( http://distrowatch.com ),
> and members of the SBo community.
> 
> DNS updates should be propagated to all well-behaved DNS servers
> by now. If the homepage doesn't look just a little bit different
> than it used to, then you are not seeing the new machine (hint:
> there's a note at the top of the page).
> 
> Please take a look at the contributors page and pass along appropriate
> appreciation for those individuals and organizations; as I've said
> before, words can't adequately express just how thankful we are
> for the support we get from our community.  If you are one of the
> contributors and would like a hyperlink to somewhere with your
> name, let us know and we'll make that happen.
> 
> I'd also like to thank the other SBo admins; erik and I did the
> setup and configuration of the host machine, but ponce handled
> the lighttpd integration with cgit on the git machine, and 
> rob0 handled the dns and helped troubleshoot some mail issues
> with the submit form, and pprkut, idlemoor, and willysr helped
> out with the website migration, database issues, testing (of
> course), and various other things I've surely forgotten. On 
> that note, there's almost surely someone else who helped out
> and feels sad that I didn't mention them, so if you are that
> person, ping me and I'll fix that.
> 
> As usual, we tested this pretty well before we went live with it,
> but we probably missed something - let us know if anything seems
> off.
> 
> Happy Slacking!
> 
> -RW
> 

Good job everyone!   I can hardly wait to update my scripts.  Unfortunately I'll be on a work trip next week (Hawaii, brutal!) do updates might lag a bit. 

Thanks to all!
-Ed