MAJOR UPDATE: ASP --> PHP / LINUX / MySQL & introduction of VB - V3.5
 

All,

Many of you will have heard discussion of 'V4'... and many of you probably think its a fairy tale!

The next generation of Saxperience (V4) will be a huge leap forward... and hopefully by the time its ready, some of us will still be having fun with Saxos!

Anyway... my point.

In order to enable us to launch 'V4' some major changes to the Saxperience server are required so that the new functionality can be supported.

As a half way step towards the launch of 'V4' myself and Mark have been working busily over the last few weeks preparing for the release of Saxperience v3.5 ( we didnt do too bad considering the pressures of FCS )

Key information</font>

- Every single page on the Saxperience website has been re-coded using a different programming language. SO when live, please report all bugs, which you find asap, so that they can be addressed. (if you find any )

- The main website, although re-coded should appear to be almost identical to the current website.

- A totally new and bang upto date forum will replace the forum we have all grown to love/hate

- Your user accounts will be transferred to the new website in full.

- You WILL NOT lose post counts and NO forum posts shall be lost. (well done Mark for the genious scripting)

- The new version of Saxperience (3.5) will live on a totally NEW dedicated server, which will offer new functionality and should out-perform the current dedicated server.

- Saxperience email for Premium members will be interupted for a short while. ALL Email WILL NOT be transferred to the new server but will be available for download for approximately a week after the new site goes live.

Please save/archive ALL important emails, which you may have stored on the Saxperience server via webmail.</font>

The switch over from the current website to the new will start to happen on Friday night (tomorrow). The switch is complex and lengthy, as all data (many gigabytes!) will be migrated.

It is likely that the Saxperience website will not be available for approx 24 hours (although we will be working like mad from the UK and the US to bring it back quicker!)

- The new website will be hosted on the main URL... www.Saxperience.com

As someone recently said to me... there are innovators and imitators in this world. I would like to think Saxperience are proving to be the former!

Things never stand still for long at Saxperience!</font>

sounding great boss good luck with the swap over.

Its all good guys!

V3.5 rocks!!

good luck

sounds good. Look forward to seeing V4. Hopefully not too long after. Im sure people can avoid sax-p for 24 hours with the football kicking off

Sounding excellent my friend. Good Luck

One thing I forgot to mention... ALL avatars and signatures will be 'lost' in the move.

Signatures being lost wont be a bad thing

LMAO!!!!

It's all go behind the scenes.

i hope peeps understand what's been happening during this last week in particular!!!

Things are really happening...we aren't just gass bagging as such!!!

This should all be fun!

good luck simo!!

yer my eyes are hurting from staying up so late all night now lol

sounds good! look forward to seeing v3.5 up and running smoothly

That's my hope too - there's soooooo many cool new features coming - I can't wait.

We've done this a few times here at Saxperience over the years, and we're getting better at it. We never make little changes... (fingers crossed, do I press this red button?)

Press it... whats the worst that could happen. LMBO! © sax-p

The plan does sound good, shame Saxperience could be down for 24 hours though. Just aswell i'm going out.

On a serious note though, its very good to see the site progressing well and i reckon you two guys can do a fairly quick changover.

Good luck

LOL - If there were only a couple of hundred posts and a few photos then it wouldn't be too complicated, but the Saxperience website has GIGABYTES of stuff, and we're transferring everything. (Even though the servers have super fast connections it still takes a long time)

This is much more than a quick transfer to a new server, this is a complete re-write in many respects nothing the likes of which have been attempted on Saxperience before.

v4 will introduce even more enhancements, but that's a future step - we need to let v3.5 settle in before v4 can take over.

It may have seemed like it was never going to happen (v3.5/4.0), but work is always going on behind the scenes to ensure that Saxperience keeps growing, and each step aims to provide more features and greater performance.

Thanks for your patience.

well done boss and well done mark top men keep up the hard work

hardcore

24 hours!? what am i ment to do during them hours!? i recon you should start the update around...3-4pm because ill be at work at 5pm till about 2am then be asleep till late afternoon

Tonight is the night!