Hi family, Increasingly I am receiving notices from you that you're unable to access the Homestead or the Cottage. Over the next 2-3 days they are installing a new server. Extracting from their daily updates on the situation, here's the scoop direct from Crosswinds: Saturday, June 17th, 2000 1:58:10pm "We are now going to be bringing down the server to attach its disks to the new server and begin the copy process. During this time FTP and uploads and new signups will not be available. "We are going to be bringing up and configuring the replacement server, ensuring no damage was done in shipping and to get it ready to replace the old server. When that is done, the old server will be taken offline and its disks connected to the new server to begin the data transfer. "At this point, signups, uploads and ftp will be turned off. This will ensure you don't make changes we miss and it improves the speed at which the data can be copied. "During this copy, ..... read access to your sites will still be allowed. Thus you will still get hits to your sites 8-) "We expect the data copy to take up to 2-3 days...." ~~~~~~~~~~~~ As of this writing (12:23 p.m. US MST), both sites are offline and the Crosswinds server is down. If you try to access either site you'll automatically be taken to the following URL <http://home.crosswinds.net/down.php> and receive this message: Oops... Our member server is currently down. We are aware of the problem and are moving to get it back up as soon as possible. Please watch the updates page for details. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ All I can tell you is to keep trying through the next couple days to see if you can access our sites. Since we're supposed to be able to read the sites, but not update them, I can only presume at this point in time our particular sites are being uploaded onto the new server. To read the updates for yourselves, they're at: <http://home.crosswinds.net/updates/>. Once you've read the updates, you'll know as much as me. And now you know the rest of the story....... I hope you're all having a super, sunny Saturday. Me? Eastern Colorado is socked in with clouds and cool temps. I'm sitting here with leggings on and my space heater running full blast! :) Colleen