Poppies.org will be moving to our own dedicated machine in a few days. This means the site will be down for at least a couple of days, possibly as long as a week. Email will stop working on Oct 27, so messages may go unanswered for a while. My apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

The site itself will probably be going down on Nov 1st (give or take a day or two), and should hopefully be back up in action a few days later. It's my hope that the site won't be down for more than five days. We should be able to retain the bulk of the forum posts, but it is possible that some posts will be lost. If that happens -- sorry! Either way, we'll try to have things back up and running as soon as possible.

We've just grown too big for our current set up, and I've got no other choice but to move to something more stable. And so, the site and forums are now moving to a *dedicated* server in the new ultra-hi-tech Poppies.org datacenter (aka my living room).

Granted, there won't be any 24/7 monitoring, and if the power goes off, so does the site -- but we'll be doing our best to make sure site availablilty is as high as possible. If anything, things should improve now that the site and hardware will be under my direct control.

Once again, my apologies for any inconvenience the downtime will cause, but not to worry -- we'll be back and better than ever in two shakes!

Cheers,
The Rev. Ayatollah Jones
Poppies.org Founder