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Thanks very much for the warning. Must commend you on how you communicate on here to all members if there are issues and the quickness in reacting to those issues to get them right.

Please, please go through every detail ! The other Kiwi site went through big changes about 2 years ago and nearly everything they did was a disaster. Test, test and test some more !

Thank you, it's nice to see some positive feedback now and then

I hear ya.
Yes, I remember when "they" upgraded their site in the mid 2000s, it was a disaster site for about two weeks, and I got word that they did it again recently and it was equally bad.

As for NZP...
This will be the sixth time we've moved to a new server in the years we've been running.

A little geeky info for ya: We're performing the migration over and over and over in our virtual machine (VM) environment, until I have a clear idea of how long the whole process will take.

Alas, there will always be little problems that have to be addressed. But they will be addressed in good time.

Note: the aesthetics of the site won't change, not for another few months yet. It's just the underlying systems that will change.

Woo hoo!
Thanks for letting us know. Nothing worse when things are down and you’re in the dark - we’ve become SO accustomed to our iPads and mobile phones!

Like any website you always test in a parallel non live environment because going live.

So glad I missed the other debacle even though I don't know who they are

Change the time to live (TTL) on your DNS records to 300sec now. Then, when you make changes, other DNS servers will update after 3 sec. Added advantage us you can change back quickly if it doesn't go well.

Typo above: ...after 300sec...

Our TTLs have always been quite low (just in case).

Most users will automatically detect the change but some ISPs ignore this setting so it could take as much as 48hrs.