IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ: Extended Maintenance Period

Reply #37

diamondpalace — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:43:08 GMT

Nice. All you need were few moments huh? Slick.

The new look took me back this morning, when I was jotting down some combos on a notepad with a pen.

Reply #36

Todd — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:06:46 GMT

Oh, and I almost forgot to mention. Did you all see the neat little cosmetic changes to Lucky's Followers System? It's something I was able to slip in there when I had a few moments over the weekend.

Reply #35

Todd — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:03:28 GMT

Thanks c j. (Although far from perfect!)

I just wanted to wrap up this topic (and this event) by saying that I have finally finished the work that was the subject of the downtime today.

(That is, I have finished just about everything that will affect Web visitors and members. There is still a lot of work that I personally need to do over the next two days to wrap everything up, but I don't think it will involves any kind of substantial downtime.)

As there normally is with this kind of t... [ More ]

Reply #34

jarasan — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:28:26 GMT

Great job! Just as promised! Professional! Thank You

Reply #33

chouquounette — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:33:52 GMT

Thanks Todd for a magnificent job as always! I wish I was perfect like you

Reply #32

JonnyBgood07 — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:23:41 GMT

:::::wipes forehead:::::: phew thank god it's over lol.

Reply #31

Todd — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:42:02 GMT

Just a reminder: Things on the Lottery Post site will be changing within the next 30-45 minutes from now.

Every way of posting information to the site will no longer be available (such as posting to the forums, blogs posts, posting predictions, etc.)

This is an important step to lock-in the database, so that we don't lose anything when the system comes back online tonight.

I will keep the Lottery Post Web site going in a kind of read-only mode as long as I possibly can, until I... [ More ]

Reply #30

adulane62 — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:22:44 GMT

Okey dokey man! An administrator is got to do, what he's got to do.... fixin' our favorite postin' place....

Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this - George Herbert

Reply #29

Aleon — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:56:08 GMT

Todd,

Thanks for the Notify.

May The Maintenance Force Be With You.

Reply #28

ICNUMBERS — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:39:56 GMT

Thanks for the update Mr. Great what would we do without you. I know I would be lost. LotteryPost has given me my life back.

Reply #27

blksaint1 — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:20:05 GMT

Okie dokiee and thanks your world

Reply #26

Todd — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:23:29 GMT

It's nothing a 4-pack of Red Bull and a big sack of peanut M Ms won't help.

Reply #25

djklaugh — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:59:42 GMT

Thanks Todd for the alert and for all your hard work. I'll be up for nearly 48 hours (paraphrase) .... Ye GADS Todd that is horrific ... hope you'll have a good chunk of time after the fixing is done for a good long rest

Reply #24

Tenaj — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:28:42 GMT

Good Luck Todd. Sounds like a lot of work. Hope everything goes well.

Reply #23

Todd — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:58:43 GMT

Thanks for all the well-wishes. It's going to be a really big deal, and I probably won't sleep for about 48 hours, so they are much-appreciated

Reply #22

Todd — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:56:30 GMT

There are hundreds of companies in any given data center. A decent data center is huge -- not talking about hobbyists on a $19.95 shared server package

Reply #21

BobP — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:38:31 GMT

This is what threw me . . .

This maintenance is unavoidable, and is part of a large data center reorganization involving several hundred companies.

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For comparison, most other companies involved in this data center maintenance are experiencing downtimes of between 40 and 48 hours.

. . . made me think LP was hosted along with hundreds of other sites on whatever equipment was undergoing maintenance. Seeing my problems reflected in your problems, apparently not the case.

So... [ More ]

Reply #20

ljohn1 — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:48:24 GMT

Thanks Todd.

Reply #19

geos*5666! — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:33:00 GMT

Thanks Todd, hope everything goes well.

Reply #18

favor4 — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:32:32 GMT

Todd, thanks for the advanced notification. And like the rest of the LP family, I also appreciate all that you do for us and wanted you to know that it's not taken for granted. You are an AWESOME team player

Reply #17

Todd — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:51:27 GMT

That's definitely the way to go. I strongly suggest that everyone get their predictions for Monday into the system by tonight. (Sunday night.)

The prediction winners will be calculated sometime after the system goes back online Monday night.

Reply #16

Ms5PennieGen — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:47:49 GMT

Thank you Todd for the heads up! I had enough time to do my workouts for midday as well as night draw for Monday on today! Thanks for this wonderful site.

Reply #15

Todd — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:28:12 GMT

I'm not sure that you read my note correctly. LP is on several servers, not just one dedicated server .

Reply #14

grandmadec — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:45:45 GMT

Thanks Todd for all your hard work, I really appreciate this site

Reply #13

Litebets27 — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:40:17 GMT

Withdrawal time.

OH NO what do I DO!!!

Thanks for the heads up.

This will give me time to get ready for Tuesday's class.

Good luck with the updates/mainteinance Todd.

Reply #12

hot mama — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:35:01 GMT

thanks for letting us know

Reply #11

LiLSpeedy — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:04:06 GMT

10-4

Reply #10

plshelpme — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:46:21 GMT

Thanks Chief for all you do.

Guess I will have to get some work done while at the office Monday

Reply #9

hearsetrax — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:59:36 GMT

message received thanks for all the hard work

Reply #8

diamondpalace — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:46:09 GMT

Time for my break from numbers research on Monday.

Reply #7

BobP — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:27:37 GMT

I'm surprised, I always thought Lottery Post would be on it's own dedicated server or you owned its server.

The web host Lotto-Logix is on blew out one of its servers and they don't work over the weekend. I haven't seen my site since Thursday.

BobP

Reply #6

ThatScaryChick — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:25:43 GMT

Thank you for the heads up

Reply #5

thegee — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:25:03 GMT

copy 10**4

Reply #4

Lkydeb*594 — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:04:20 GMT

thank u for letting us know in an advance. I appreciate your hard work. thank u Todd, u r the greatest.

Reply #3

mylollipop — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:47:08 GMT

You are the greatest Todd! Thank you for all you do! It is hard work and you are dedicated to us. I appreciate it! We all do

Reply #2

xthundercat2003 — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:39:20 GMT

ok no problem i copy you

thanks todd

Reply #1

MADDOG10 — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:10:07 GMT

Understandable down time.

Thanks for the heads up...

IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ: Extended Maintenance Period

Todd — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 02:48:03 GMT

IMPORTANT: Extended Maintenance Period

This is an important announcement for all members and visitors of Lottery Post and USA Mega regarding Web site availability on Monday, September 29, 2008.

Starting Monday morning at 7:00 AM Eastern Time, there will be an extended service outage, lasting until approximately 7:30 PM Eastern Time Monday evening.

The following services will be affected:

The Lottery Post (www.lotterypost.com) and USA Mega (www.usamega.com) Web sites All e-mail to an... [ More ]