It's server upgrade time for the Nexus network.
The release date for Fallout: New Vegas is looming and I have decided to launch a seperate site for New Vegas rather than incorporating it in to Fallout 3 Nexus for ease-of-use and clutter reduction reasons. As the site membership continues to grow (1.8 million members and counting!) so too must the server infastructure that keeps everything running smoothly. Right now is a good time to improve the infastructure before the next influx of members.
The forums will be moving to a new super powerful server, about twice as powerful as the current Nexus servers and will be accompanied by the New Vegas Nexus site closer to the launch of the game. The server the forums currently inhabit will be converted in to the new UK file server that should be much better equipped to deal with all the European downloaders.
As the forums are integral to the running of all the Nexus sites all the Nexus sites have been taken offline while this transfer is actioned.
The down-time should be around 8 hours give or take 4 hours. The forum database is very large and has some extremely large indexes that will have to be recreated that make this time frame loose.
Estimated time to finish:
12:00 GMT: Sites taken offline. Getting to work!
13:50 GMT: The forums have been moved to the new server and the database restored. Proceeding to upgrade the forums to the latest version.