Oli

Unfortunately Mick, in a way it was broken so did need to be fixed (remember the outages over the past few months?). As I mentioned above, we were at least 10 versions out of date and there were many security holes - guess who is at most risk from being hacked or scammed online? It's the people who aren't as computer literate. Believe me I wouldn't have just undertaken two weeks of battling with it just to change the layout, it looked fine to me too. Now, as I mentioned above the layout is one we can customise - the upgrade had to be done before the 20th so the club didn't incur another £160 bill so it has been done with most options left as their default setting. If there's something you would like to see changed I would very much welcome feedback of that type. Things like "this button used to be here, the layout was like this, can we change it to match" would be very useful indeed - just saying "I don't like it" isn't.

Hi Steve Not in any way annoying, all questions welcomed! It's a dedicated server through Fasthosts. On their site the model is DS761, running Linux CentOS. It also hosts two of our company websites and is a vital part of our business so backups are done every two days. This is an automatic process whereby the entire server (35GB) is uploaded via FTP to another server I have in the data cabinet in my offices. A minimum of 10 backups (20 days') is held at any one time if if something goes wrong today and the server backs up tonight, tonights backup (containing the fault) is not the only one I have and I can go back to two days ago, or two weeks ago if necessary. Being a dedicated server and a relatively (compared with usual shared hosting) expensive contract, there is premium tech support through Fasthosts if required. If the server fails it means the websites accounting for half of my company's turnover have also failed so I can assure you there's no rest until it's back up and running. My colleagues can restart it if necessary however there would be no such thing as a holiday where I wasn't on hand to be able to fix/assist with fixing that sort of problem! Hope that helps, Oli

Dear members, Over the course of the next few days I will be upgrading the website to the latest version of the forum software and moving the site to a new server. Unfortunately there's no way to do this without causing some disruption but it's something that needs to be done for a few reasons: 1) We'll be moving to my own server - it's a dedicated machine which isn't shared with any other organisations. This way we have full control and can respond quickly to any problems without having to rely on a third party. 2) Our site currently runs version 3.4 of the forum software, the current version is 4.2.6 - we are at least 10 versions out of date so are long overdue an upgrade from both a security and features point of view. 3) Web hosting costs PBSBAC £160 per year or thereabouts. This is a cost which the club will no longer incur as I'll host the site on a server that I have anyway. This next invoice is due on 20th December so we want to switch before then. The new site is currently live at http://pbsbac.vanderquest.co.uk/- the next step is to change the settings of http://www.pbsbac.co.uk/ so it points at the new site. This is where the disruption will be however those who cannot hold their excitement in are welcome to use the first link while the usual web address is out of action. This could take anywhere from 24 hours to 3 days. It's a slightly different layout that we can fully customise as we go along. The main things that we will have problems with are: 1) Catch reporting. This is a custom created application that may not take too well to being transferred - we'll see! 2) I should be able to transfer across all the most recent posts/topics but some of the images posted between 27th Nov when I began this process and now will likely be lost. Older photos will be fine. Private messages between those dates will also likely be lost. 3) Some of the committee have had problems logging in and their passwords have needed resetting - if you have this issue please email me at oliver@maingay.co.uk and I'll sort it out ASAP for you. We'd welcome any feedback once transferred over - if there's something you don't like or something you find which doesn't work please post a reply here so I can try and get it resolved. Fingers crossed it all goes smoothly and see you on the other side! Oli  

Thanks chaps!

Absolutely awesome Rob - any video to come?

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Welcome to the club Steve, look forward to seeing you out there! Oli

I'm sure many of you will have seen Brian's email and realised we've had some major web issues over the past week. Very frustrating indeed and due to no fault of our own. Nor was it a hack or anything like that so no need to worry about any security or personal details having been compromised. I'm pleased to say that it's finally back up and running having had to completely rebuild the site's database over the past few days. I will be moving the whole site to a new server ASAP and the forum software, IPB, will also be updated to the new version as they no longer support the version we run. Unfortunately this will inevitably lead to a bit of downtime and also more than likely a new forum layout (which no doubt they consider an 'improvement') so it may take a bit of getting used to. I will be able to give you plenty of notice of this happening rather than the unexpected outages we've just had! Please do let me know if you spot any bugs over the next couple of weeks as there may still need to be some tweaks made to get it back exactly as it was. I'll be lying down in a darkened room with a large drink! Thanks for your patience, Oli

Looking very smart Neil, congratulations!

Very good and absolutely stunning weather, the sea was a mirror all day - more cod this time but the pollack weren't as big - biggest was about 10lbs but lots of fun!

For us it was a case of entering the comp just in case there was a bonus flattie while wrecking...

1. Fisheagle crew tba. Day subject to crew availability will post Friday pm 2. Joint Venture...Adam Ian and Alun ....Sunday 3. Sweet Chariot - Nick & Oli - Sunday

Anyone looking at the forecast and thinking "mid channel"?

Top report! Thanks for sharing

Finding this a tough one to call - seems to be improving...

We'll make the final call tomorrow too but as we were only doing 3 days anyway wouldn't want to lose one sat on the rock. Saturday looks pretty awful at the moment and Friday/Sunday only a bit better...

Not looking good Sat and Sun now. As Dave says, fingers crossed! Is there a backup backup date?

Any thoughts yet? Weather seems to change every time I look

Just made the mistake of looking at https://www.windfinder.com/forecast/channel_lightship

Welcome Dave

Good stuff, we're very fair weather Alderney visitors so let's hope for sunshine and mirror-like seas!

Hi Steve, Adam, anyone else... Are you still looking at these dates? We're looking at a Friday-Sunday trip Oli

Thanks guys, unfortunately didn't get out on the water but a lovely day nonetheles!

Details attached. 2016 32 Dredging Operations Cobbs Quay.pdf

Please see the attached document regarding the current works in the harbour. 2016 31 South Quay dredging.pdf