HelpfulGardener.com

The site needs an update to improve things. I'll likely start the update Friday morning, at which time I'll turn the site off.

Smile now
If all goes well it should be back up in a matter of a few minutes.

Or cry later
If the update goes to heck in a hand basket (worst case scenario), then the site will be down for the weekend. But I doubt it'll come to that.

I'm taking steps to make sure the site is fully backed up and ready to bring the site back in case I get in over my head.

Rest assured, I kind of know what I'm doing.

Roger

Bumpity bump. Making sure members see this.

Thanks for all work you out into this.

Good luck. Being a programmer, I know how even a piddle little innocent thing can convert things into a huge swamp even with backups!. Hee hee hee!

All my fingers and toes are crossed.

Thanks!

Still downloading all the uploaded images. Wow, there's a lot of them!

Looking forward to the update, Roger. Also looking forward to spring and new plants to identify.

Thanks!

And the images are still downloading, since Friday afternoon all through the night and still downloading today. It's probably not necessary but I just want to be as backed up as possible, quadruple redundant. Just in case.

Well if the update goes for you like a simple auto repair goes for me the site will be down for the weekend All the best to you . This computer stuff is way over my head

Thanks!

The backup took longer than anticipated. However the update is set for this weekend, January 29th.

Thank you Roger for maintaining the site

And... done!

I hope!


Had a nightmare about this, went over the worst case scenarios in my dreams. Woke up ready to tackle it. Of course, something went wrong and I had to call support to give the server a kick. The rest was a matter of waiting for things to download so I could upload them again, lol.

And I see the first bug. The user avatars are missing. Will fix it asap.