Yes, security is their biggest concern. Anyone having online transactions should be as careful as morebeer.com is being. Their first rule is that all transactions are 100% safe at all times. While they have never had any security issue for transactions (the transaction processing actually happens on yet another super secure server and has no contact with any of the forum stuff), there are lots of hackers out there trying to mess up every high traffic PHPBB forum. What sparked this quick move was the announcement on a French security site of yet another vulnerability in PHPBB. This of course had them concerned. I can understand this 100%. I wish my bank was as focused on my security.
I know as a customer I'd be annoyed if the forum was down, but I'd be really angry if I couldn't browse for products and order stuff. So, I think it is a very wise move to add another server to the mix to ensure that one feature/process is not able to take another one down.
Yes, the tranfer and set up is taking a little longer than they planned for a couple reasons. One was the 4th of July weekend. Not much can get done while that is happening, though Chris did work through the weekend and got the new server up and running. The other is that the entire forum needed to be moved to the new server and there were some slight data tweaks needed.
I've been given access to the new server, so I'll be able to fix more stuff as issues arise, which will always happen. Hopefully, I'll be able to respond quick enough to keep people from getting angry.
It shouldn't be long now. It maybe up as soon as this afternoon. Testing is happening to make sure everything transfered over with no problems and that everything is secure.
JZ
