Photo.net is "read only" for a hardware upgrade...

As you can see by the big red notice on top of every photo.net page, the site is in "read-only" mode for the next 14 hours or so. We estimate this to be from 5:00pm (EST) on Tuesday (today) until 7:00am (EST) Wednesday (tomorrow).

We are moving to a better server location and much newer hardware. This is one of the steps that we are taking to improve site performance. As I have said before, there is no one magic thing we can do to eliminate the problems, but this is a big move in the right direction.

I will update this post with any progress information that I get, and with a little luck, we'll be back online tomorrow morning with no problems.

UPDATE #1:
9:30pm (EST): The database export is about 75% done.

UPDATE #2:
12:15am (EST): Database export is completely done. The drives are being physically moved from the old to new location.

UPDATE #3:
2:00am (EST) Everything loaded and ready for testing.

UPDATE #4:
10:15am (EST) Back up once again.