[sperry]

...but probably not permanently. I think the server is back to pre-lockup condition, plus I've backed up all 18GB (!) of data we've got on the server.

Since the backup is very current, I'm going to see if I can't around to re-imaging the server this weekend. That will update our OS and all our software to the latest and greatest, and will allow me to clean up a lot of wasted disk space. I should be able to get the forums up and running pretty quickly, but uploading the gallery images and the like may take a while 'cause I'm not going to attempt it w/ the piss-poor upstream my cable modem has... I'll have to do it from work or something.

So, in the mean time, feel free to post... I'll be locking the forums when I start the re-image, pull a final database dump, then go to work on the re-imaging of everything. My goal will to have the forums back up and running ASAP. I think I'm going to see if I can't get some better gallery code (there's gotta be something better than the crap I wrote 4 years ago) that will support user uploads, resizing, and integration w/ vBulletin authentication. That way we can all use the gallery. But that will probably take some time... so expect the gallery (and pretty much everything that's not built into the forums) to be down for a while.