Forum Down Time

[Fyron]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
It's not as simple as copying data. The file upload code for the forum was specially written and configured for this forum. The latest update of the forum broke that so it has to be rewritten, and tested, and rewritten again, etc. Sometimes that's a quick process, other times it most definetly is not.

It is quite easy to test the code you are writing on a copy of the forum. You do not have to write it on the actual server. In fact, that is about the worst way to go about it, using the actual forum server as your debugging platform. The code should be written and tested first on a dummy platform, so that it takes little time to get it working on the real server.