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Wishing a Merry Christmas to members of the Kitz Community.

Its a time of year that can be stressful and chaotic for many.  There seems to be high expectations about how we need to do this, that or the other to make a perfect Christmas day.  In reality, the trimmings don't really matter and I'm sure no one really cares if your serviettes don't match the tablecloth.  The main thing is that we try to take some time out and enjoy presence of friends and family. On the flip side of chaotic, Christmas can be lonely for others.  I've reached that stage of life when far too many loved ones have passed away and Christmas is a time when it hits quite hard if certain people are no longer here. With my own health being fragile, getting out isn't so easy,  but I'm fortunate to have family who I love and care about with whom I shall be spending the next few days.  It's my wish that you too have friends and/or family to spend time with.  What ever it is that you are doing, I hope that you have an enjoyable day.

I do apologise for all the recent and ongoing down time.  I was basically backed in a corner by my hosts to upgrading to a new server.  As you have probably noticed,, things do not appear to have gone well resulting in many hours of down time. 

Right now it seems that there iare so many things I need to fix.  The list seems endless and I'm completely overwhelmed.  There are so many areas I need to sort its hard trying to know what to do next, or even where to ask for help.  It is mostly cosmetic although the forum does keep crashing.  I'm not getting help from my hosts into finding a solution so Im trying to work through certain things myself.   I havent even had time to transfer my own mail over or do anything personal.  I literally have been sat here glued to the PC for the past 3 weeks not making much progress but please do bear with me as I try to sort what I can.

Ironically the upgrade was supposed to have more disk space and premium support, it seems to have been anything but with tickets sat unanswered for days/weeks and them not carrying out what should for them be simple tasks.

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Update 10th July

During the migration they appear to have changed the character set from UTF8 to Latin.  This is causing a problem with certain characters.  Please bear with me until I can sort this out.  Unfortunately there are several things I need to do before I can attempt to change this back.  More info in this thread here .

A heads up that over the next week the site will have various maintenance work that could cause downtime.

There's quite a few changes involved  which have been time consuming for me and although I have tried done a dry run, there are still parts of the site that need work.. and its a blind process as I dont have sufficient room on this server to do replica.. so having to keep editing my host file is a PITA when my browser ignores the host host file and serves me cached page.    
The forum and main site look ok, but I still need to do work on the wiki.  I think its the skin so dont be surprised if I stick with one of the default wiki skins until everything has moved over.   There will be unavoidable downtime for DNS propagation and I will try and inform you nearer the time for that as I will be putting the forum into maintenance mode to transfer the database.  As usual, I will use the Facebook page for Service Status. 

I do apologise for not having exact info right now, but I wanted to ensure you were fore-warned before this server is switched off.