#scheduled site downtime

As previously announced, we are going to be adding a firewall to the Collective.

When this happens the Collective WILL BE OFFLINE FOR UP TO 24 HOURS IN THE WORST CASE.

When the site is down, the screen shown below will be appearing instead of the Collective.

The problem is that the firewall will not open until the worldwide DNS has been updated. This takes some time, and from my experience in the past, the best we can hope for is 4 hours and the worst is 12 hours.

My plans are to turn on the firewall:

Saturday, July 22, 2017 at noon Eastern Time

Please be aware of this and plan accordingly. If there are comments about my plans for this, please leave a comment on the post about this in the Announcement board on the Collective and if I need to reschedule, then I’ll do so if there’s an issue for the Collective Membership about this.

Could all Collective members on Tumblr please repost this notice so the word gets out?

Thank you kindly!

Tera
Collective Admin