The announcement has been made that the upgrade will commence this Friday evening (erroneously saying 10/14 instead of 11/14).
Tentative upgrade plan:
1. Place CH in maintenance mode.
2. Backup Database
3. Backup all other CH data and pages. This is a complete copy of the forum directories.
4. Request OS upgrade from web server provider.
5. Wait...
6. Wait...
7. Restore the forum directories.
8. Restore database.
9. Test.
![fingers :fingers:](http://chrunners.net/forum/Smileys/default/crossfingers.gif)
10. Place forum back on-line.