Version 5 Demo Video

We've released a new Verision 5 Demo Video for your viewing pleasure. While we won't be moving towards a beta this month, we felt it would be good to make a video showing some of the great new features you can expect to see in the future.

If you'd like to join in the discussion regarding this video, head on over to this thread on ProBoards Support.

Server Upgrades

Some of our servers are running on older hardware, and today we're going to start moving data from some of these older dual-core machines over to brand new quad-core servers.

This upgrade should be seamless from a user's perspective. Any large forums may take up to a few minutes to transfer, and during that time we will be displaying our standard "Backup in Progress" message.

The following servers will have their hardware upgraded with this move:

25, 30, 31, 32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 49, 50, 51, 77

This process may take up to a few days to complete for us to get through all of these machines.

Win a ProBoards Mousepad!

I've decided to start the first ever "Make Patrick Hold Stuff" contest over at ProBoards Support. If you'd like to have a little bit of fun and have a chance win a limited edition free mousepad then go check it out the contest!

Just in case you don't know who Patrick is...

He's the founder and owner of ProBoards. That about sums it up. Oh, and he doesn't really have mutant fingers in case you were wondering.

3rd Backup Server

Our 3rd backup server is now online and appears to be functioning properly. We will be monitoring it throughout the week to ensure that it has no problems.

As an update to our last entry, we hope to have the "backup status" display available to all forums within the next 2 weeks. We do have a (working) demo of it here on our support forum.

Backup Server Updates

We've determined that even with 2.6 terabytes of space that we're going to need more. To that end we've ordered a 3rd server with an additional 1.3 terabytes of hard drive space. This server should come online within the next 48 hours. With our new backup solution we have all forums backing up on a weekly basis.

Also, I wanted to touch on a planned feature related to our backups. In the future we will be offering an option from your admin panel to view when the latest backup of your forum was made. This way you can be assured that a backup of your forum is available in the event of data loss.

Further to this, we are planning offer a paid backup restore feature which will allow you to revert your forum back to the state it was in when our last backup was made. Details on pricing and availability will come in the future.

Please note that this feature is not currently available, but it is in the works for a future update. I do not have a planned release date at this time.