PCM.daily's monthly magazine, PCM Monthly, made by Smoothie and the rest of the PCM Monthly team, has released Issue #2! This months issue is a PCM/Tour Special with indepth reviews of Track Cycling and the new Scouting system included. There is also a preview to the Tour de France including the teams and the important stages that are yet to come. A round up of the recent PCMdaily Awards and a review of the recent National Championships also join the regular features of Columns, Rider Diaries and this Month's Poll.
After several days of downtime PCM.daily is now back. And with back, I do mean "for good". It's been some rather hard days for me, especially since I have had to learn a lot of new things to get the new server working properly. Hopefully, I won't need to do more changes with that for a loooong while. There are still some minor problems at the site. As you may have noticed, the two photo panels are gone. This is due to a problem which I haven't managed to fix just yet - but I'm working on it, and they will return. Also, the downloads are temporarily down, but will be back up tomorrow. The Forum Threads Panel was one of the reasons why the site went down yesterday, and we will need to optimize it. Until that's been done, I hope you can live with the side panel --> ;)
I'd like to thank a few people for their work during these days of downtime: - Sunbao, the guy who led me to the new host - Kenny, who helped me setting up the dedicated server. He has also been helping me a lot with the bug tracking and optimising, and in general, he has been very, very supportive. You should all go visit his website, Cyclingsage. - Issoisso, simply because he was entertaining at times and tried to be helpful ;)
Other than that, welcome back! If you experience any problems, feel free to post them in the forum.
As you have noticed, we have had a few problems with the site the past two days. Everything should be working properly now, though, but there will be a few structural changes in the future. The past year, the site has in fact been hosted at three different sites. We have had two download 'servers' and one site 'server'. This is, of course, not the most optimal way of running a website, especially not when it comes down to the $$$, so the plan has been to move all things to one server. A few weeks ago, we got rid of one of the download servers, and now the time has come to the final 'move', as we are moving the site from the current website host to the download server. This is a slow progress, especially because we have a rather lousy website host, but at some point, the site will become inaccessible. We will warn you before-hand, and we might not move it right now because of the Tour de France coming up.
Anyway, the download section is back up, the site is working (although it's very slow :( ), so enjoy - 1 day to go until the start of Le Tour :D
Edit: The final move has now been done, the site should be working properly from now on and to eternity ;)
We are currently in the middle of moving the site to a new host, so everything is placed on the same server. There will be some inconvienences during this 'thing' which can last for up to three days. First, the DL-server is down, as said, and secondly the website will be down for a few hours at some point.
