So yesterday was a royal pain in the ass!!
There has been a significant upsurge in the amount of
people visiting the site in the past couple of weeks. Which, on one level, is obviously fantastic.
However, so many of you wonderful people took the time to visit the site yesterday that you crashed it!!
It wasn't just Star Wars fans that were crashing web-sites yesterday, hell no, it was the
NTF massive as well!!
NTF has been steadily growing for a number of years now but yesterday was an all-time high and that, unfortunately, made the old server creak and collapse, a bit like Annie Power at the final flight in last season's mares hurdle! It was all going swimmingly well and then boom! NTF was on the deck with the race at his mercy!!
Like Annie Power though the site is back and ready to roll. I've had NTF moved onto a more powerful server, numerous updates have taken place and back-up powers have been increased significantly.
My IT guy was working like a demon late last night and this morning to get it all back up to speed (he's a legend, truly a
legend) and now NTF is ready to rock with a new, more powerful server keeping him upright.
So big apologies if you couldn't get onto the site yesterday evening (trust me it was just as frustrating for myself!) and here is the link again for yesterday's blog post...
I also know a large number of you were also trying to sign-up for the full seasonal package (I think I managed to reply to all of you, apologies if I didn't) and that side of things is now also back up and running (I've had a few
sign-ups this morning so it's definitely all ticking along sweetly).
The free list sign-up deal is still available for you on the following link...
So in short a pain in the ass sort of evening but on the plus side NTF has had a behind-the-scenes upgrade to a shiny new
server and should now be more robust and able to handle the many National Hunt lovers that have been visiting the site!!
Here's the link to yesterday's post again for those of you that didn't quite manage to read it before the crash, bang, wallop evening...
