Welcome back!

Unfortunately, the SON Community was down for much of this afternoon and late evening due to a much-needed transfer from one hosting company to another. 

As many of you have pointed out in several posts, there have been technical glitches impacting the Community these last few weeks, if not months. I learned in late June that the hosting company that has maintained the services for the Community since at least 2013 had not been conducting ANY backups on the site since September 2023. As a result, with limited storage available on the server, a lack of software updates (PHP/MySQL), and the server itself reaching beyond end-of-life status, it was necessary to switch servers before the lights went out on 20 consecutive years of passionate soap opera discussion.

Around 1:00 p.m. ET, a new hosting company that I chose to take over from the old one confirmed the transfer of servers. However, the data they had was from yesterday, which means posts from that point on were missing. I absolutely refused to allow the site to go back online without all the data being resynced first. That has now been done.

I did manage to update the message boards to the latest released version under IPV4. However, there is a newer version under IPV5 that I was hoping to sneak in while the site was down, but there were too many complications that further delayed me being able to turn things back online. I'll attempt that update another day.

In the meantime, I'm so sorry it took so long for the site to get back online. I hope everything is working as it should. I am exhausted beyond belief.

Thank you for keeping us going, along with all our history!  

Thanks for all you're doing!!!

Disappointing that the previous company was not doing their job; glad you found another that appears to be [more] reliable and that you were able to keep today's posts, as well. You did what was right for the community, and I am eternally grateful for it.

Thanks so much for preserving 20 years of history!

2 minutes ago, Antoyne said:

Thanks so much for preserving 20 years of history!

This, OMG what a loss that would have been! I was definitely getting the vibe this was serious since it lasted so long. 

Just now, BoldRestless said:

This, OMG what a loss that would have been! I was definitely getting the vibe this was serious since it lasted so long. 

I’ve been posting here for 20 years, that would’ve been tragic.

Thank you, Errol!

3 minutes ago, Antoyne said:

I’ve been posting here for 20 years, that would’ve been tragic.

I wish I knew about this place back then!

Just now, BoldRestless said:

I wish I knew about this place back then!

I genuinely don’t know how I discovered it. I was still in high school at the time which is wild to think about now.  I think I initially used to read an entirely different soap board and somehow I ended up here and just never left.

Thanks so much @Errol!! Appreciate all the hard work that goes into running the site. 

Thank you! 

Thank you so much! 

Oh, geeze, what a pain for you!!!! I'm so sorry you had that on you. However, hooray for winning over our sometimes recalcitrant tech! Way to go, you the man.

Thanks @Errol for all your hard work BTS . SON is the best soap board around.