The more I prepare and learn, I'm doubting it will take very long at all.

The process will be either 1 or 2 phases, depending on the success or failure of phase 1. Phase 1, if successful, will allow me to "upgrade" certain parts of the site in such a way that we might not need to do the bare bones revert/upgrade that I have always hated the idea of. I'll still need to take the site down for some time for phase 1 regardless. If phase 1 is successful, it's also a 99% guarantee we won't lose ANY data/work/etc!

If phase 1 doesn't work, or doesn't pass my tests that follow its implementation, then of course phase 2 will be the stripping of everything I love about this site and reverting to a new start board wise but with "upgraded" system from head to toe that should be solid and reliable until the developers of this board software decide to do another major jump to what I think they are calling 2.0, which really is what I was hoping to wait for and skip the current upgrade package altogether. Basically right now we're driving around in a classic Chevy Camaro but the current upgrade would have us jump into a new Ford Mustang (entirely different world/specs) but the coming future upgrade will be a Chevy Corvette. I've been trying for the last couple years to skip the Mustang altogether and wait for the Corvette that they've been bragging about for an eternity.

Also, if I need to do phase 2, that's where a greater chance of us losing RPs, results, accounts, etc... comes into play.

Wish us luck! I'll probably wait until Warfare gets posted and then give it another couple days before I go to work on this, so I'm guessing I'll be working on this over the coming weekend.