One-Eyed Richmond Forum
General => Forum Announcements and Feedback => Topic started by: one-eyed on December 11, 2010, 07:38:54 AM
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Due to well known and lingering issues with OER's current web host provider, we are finally moving the site and forum to a new host based in Australia. We just couldn't continue with the "service" from our current host which is based overseas.
During the 'move' OER may be offline for a period of time as the site's files and forum database are migrated to our new host's server. So please bear with us while the move is happening and any initial teething probs that may arise when its all done (hopefully there will be none).
Cheers,
MT and WP.
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:cheers
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Best news I've heard in a while. The old site was just too unreliable. :clapping
One ignorant question guys - who funds the hosting and running costs?
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Best news I've heard in a while. The old site was just too unreliable. :clapping
It hasn't moved yet smokey - will happen over the next few days. We are confident that there will be a marked improvement and less dowtime. We are also pleased to be able to use an Aussie Company now rather s meone off shore
One ignorant question guys - who funds the hosting and running costs?
Team OER ;D :thumbsup
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Best news I've heard in a while. The old site was just too unreliable. :clapping
It hasn't moved yet smokey - will happen over the next few days. We are confident that there will be a marked improvement and less dowtime. We are also pleased to be able to use an Aussie Company now rather s meone off shore
One ignorant question guys - who funds the hosting and running costs?
Team OER ;D :thumbsup
Excellent news WP OE & MT! :thumbsup
Check to see if they have a community chest or paypal mod as I'd be happy to chip in a few bucks towards the running of the site and I'm sure others would too. Even if it allows us to have some more cool mods that everyone can enjoy. I know some sites have a really cool "gallery" mod which we could post training & game day pics as well as other tiger related pics taken by members. I've run plenty of forums in the past so if you want any ideas just PM me. :thumbsup
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Oh, what a shame, they were so reliable :nope
:rollin
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One ignorant question guys - who funds the hosting and running costs?
Team OER ;D :thumbsup
Excellent news WP OE & MT! :thumbsup
Check to see if they have a community chest or paypal mod as I'd be happy to chip in a few bucks towards the running of the site and I'm sure others would too.
Yep, what Tiga said. Happy to chip in.
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Great news OE, MT and WP! :thumbsup
Any chance with the move that in the future you could nominate good posts for a post of the month or something similar like I have seen on some other 'inferior sites' :whistle I wouldn't have the first clue how difficult this is to create but a type of recognition for genuinely humourous, informative or insightful posts (MT's training posts and OE's breaking stories come straight to mind) is the only thing I see other sites having that we don't here. Considering this is the best Tigers forum around I was just curious if such additions are a possibility or just a pipe dream on my behalf :sleep
Either way, thanks for all your work and efforts with the site and great to hear of the change. :clapping
Stripes
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ya gotta love OER! The King of Tiger fan forums! :gotigers
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Great news OE, MT and WP! :thumbsup
Any chance with the move that in the future you could nominate good posts for a post of the month or something similar like I have seen on some other 'inferior sites' :whistle I wouldn't have the first clue how difficult this is to create but a type of recognition for genuinely humourous, informative or insightful posts (MT's training posts and OE's breaking stories come straight to mind) is the only thing I see other sites having that we don't here. Considering this is the best Tigers forum around I was just curious if such additions are a possibility or just a pipe dream on my behalf :sleep
Either way, thanks for all your work and efforts with the site and great to hear of the change. :clapping
Stripes
These SMF forums do come with a 'karma' rating for posters but it's switched off. Also Version 2.0 of these SMF forums is not far away from being publicly released and it comes with more features (eg: a ignore list which some have been asking for :D ).
Thanks all for the kind words by the way :)
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Good to hear. Keep up the great work.
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They're not called Simpleton Machines for nothing :rollin
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They're not called Simpleton Machines for nothing :rollin
heheheheh :bow
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what was the problem anyway?
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In short poor service from what we were promised plus in the past 4 months our soon to be old host moved the goal posts from an existing contract we had. The only webhosting company I know who installs new servers that offer less capacity and more restrictions than their old servers ??? ::). Oh what fun WP and I had "discussing" all these issues with our old host ;D.
Anyway the migration to our new host is about to happen so if OER goes offline then you'll all know why.
Cheers :).
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who is the host getting the big A, cyclops?
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Oh what fun WP and I had "discussing" all these issues with our old host ;D.
:rollin :rollin yep how true
From no replies to emails to being on hold to North America for 40 minutes and then another 30 mins going around in circles...
;D
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who is the host getting the big A, cyclops?
A "top 3" Canadian webhosting company.
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who is the host getting the big A, cyclops?
A "top 3" Canadian webhosting company.
Let's not bag 'em until the migration is over.... they are still out hosts we don't wanna upset 'em ;D
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Hopefully OER doesn't go offline for too long. I don't want to have to join over at Y&B
:lol
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Welcome Back :thumbsup
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Thought that I has something wrong with my computer.
But it turns out that this all has changed.
Oh well at least it is back.
Must admit that I liked the old look better than this one.
Had more look of a Tigers forum than this format.
I will get use to it.
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yes OER is back
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Thought that I has something wrong with my computer.
But it turns out that this all has changed.
Oh well at least it is back.
Must admit that I liked the old look better than this one.
Had more look of a Tigers forum than this format.
I will get use to it.
We will get around to getting things looking like they did previously over the next few days.
Bare with us
The migration took longer than we thought due to the lack of assitance provided by our former hosts who for some reason we cannot understand were not impressed with us deciding to give them the flick
On top of that we had some issues with getting the forum back up and running (Mr One-Eyed deserves a massive thank you for getting it up and running again :thumbsup)
Hence why we currently look different colour wise in particular
Thanks to everyone for your patience and understanding
There still maybe some teething issues over the coming days but long term we are confident this site will operate alot better than it did previously
We are BACK
Enjoy
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Thanks guys glad the forum is back, the productivity at work returns to the normal minimal output
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Good to have OER back...I don't mind the look.
Needed to make a quick comeback on Y&B with one of my old accounts so I could get my Tiger fix. :thumbsup Glad this joint is up and running again.
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New colours are certainly easier on the eyes.
It will make it even easier to spend time posting.
:)
and with a spell check function (bet some won't bother)
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Bloody good thing that OER is back; I had to hang around on PRE and I feel dirty. :-[
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Bloody good thing that OER is back; I had to hang around on PRE and I feel dirty. :-[
Lots of good people over at PRE.
;)
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No doubt, but the place is a minefield. :banghead
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New colours are certainly easier on the eyes.
It will make it even easier to spend time posting.
:)
and with a spell check function (bet some won't bother)
The current colours wont be staying - we will be reloading the OER colours over the next few days
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New colours are certainly easier on the eyes.
It will make it even easier to spend time posting.
:)
and with a spell check function (bet some won't bother)
The current colours wont be staying - we will be reloading the OER colours over the next few days
Figured as much, I'll enjoy it while I can.
:thumbsup
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New colours are certainly easier on the eyes.
A worry when a bloke loves pastel blue lol
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Phew! ;D
Apologies for the length downtime while we migrated but, as WP alluded to, our former hosts did their best to hinder the whole progress at every step :scream. Despite claiming in their terms and conditions that there was a 15-day grace period regarding domain renewals they instead just turned off our domain name Sunday night which put us offline and prevented us from being able to change the Domain NameServer (tells the internet which server/IP address a website is located at) to that of our new host. Our old host also refused to reply to any contact or requests from our new host and even blocked our new host from FTP access. Add to that the 'export' function in phpmyadmin for large files/databases such as the one which supports this forum wouldn't work properly surprise surprise ::). Fortunately I had backed up the site and knew enough unix to get around it all and our new host was very helpful all the way through regarding migrating everything and putting it all back together the right way.
In short without the technical computer jargon, our former hosts were their normal moronic mongrel selves who turned something that should have taken 2 days tops into a 4-5 day saga ::). Oh well they once again justified our decision to change hosts despite the lengthy downtime and on the positive I learnt a fair bit about migrating websites and databases and unless I'm mistaken the site now seems to be responding faster :thumbsup. Hopefully it's all go from here.
I'll tidy up the couple of minor superficial things left to do in the next 24 hours. If you find or experience any bugs let me or WP know.
Thanks everybody for your patience over the past 5 days and on behalf of WP and MT thanks for all your continued support and kind words :cheers.
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New colours are certainly easier on the eyes.
A worry when a bloke loves pastel blue lol
Just got old eyes.
Thought you of all people would understand.
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Thought you of all people would understand.
Now now lol :wallywink :rollin
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One Eyed, it still says Simple Machines down the bottom.
Aren't they the hosts you had before?
PS: I don't know about anyone else, but seems faster
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One Eyed, it still says Simple Machines down the bottom.
Aren't they the hosts you had before?
PS: I don't know about anyone else, but seems faster
Simple Machines is the forum software not the hosts
But certainly "simpletons" whould have been a great name for our previous hosts ;D
And yes things are faster, which is one of the things we wanted as part of the change over :thumbsup
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I am liking it WP. :thumbsup
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Huge improvement in speed guys. And if the site uptime is now more reliable then the move will have been a huge success. Even got some new icons I notice. The only downside was me spending the last few days shaking like an addict going through withdrawal symptoms!! ;D
Well done to all responsible. :bow
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Speed much quicker . The search function, for me, not only now works reliably but works quicker too.
I imagine those internal server configuration errors that i would sometimes get are gone too.
:thumbsup
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Thought that I has something wrong with my computer.
But it turns out that this all has changed.
Oh well at least it is back.
Must admit that I liked the old look better than this one.
Had more look of a Tigers forum than this format.
I will get use to it.
We will get around to getting things looking like they did previously over the next few days.
Bare with us
The migration took longer than we thought due to the lack of assitance provided by our former hosts who for some reason we cannot understand were not impressed with us deciding to give them the flick
On top of that we had some issues with getting the forum back up and running (Mr One-Eyed deserves a massive thank you for getting it up and running again :thumbsup)
Hence why we currently look different colour wise in particular
Thanks to everyone for your patience and understanding
There still maybe some teething issues over the coming days but long term we are confident this site will operate alot better than it did previously
We are BACK
Enjoy
It was great to see it looking the way it was again.
Feels more like home once more.
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Well done and so far so good, heaps faster.
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So far so good
We are not aware of any major 'glitches" at this stage but I think we are all enjoying the new speed ;D
Please remember any problems let us know
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Also Version 2.0 of these SMF forums is not far away from being publicly released and it comes with more features (eg: a ignore list which some have been asking for :D ).
Any update on this ignore function?
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Who do you have in mind, Fonzie?
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Also Version 2.0 of these SMF forums is not far away from being publicly released and it comes with more features (eg: a ignore list which some have been asking for :D ).
Any update on this ignore function?
Sorry Infamy but V2.0 is still in its beta stage (5th beta IIRC) and I have no idea when it'll be publicly released. SMF has been working on it for ages. There is an ignore box on your profile page for PMs with the current version btw but I don't believe it includes posts on the forum as well.
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Also Version 2.0 of these SMF forums is not far away from being publicly released and it comes with more features (eg: a ignore list which some have been asking for :D ).
Any update on this ignore function?
Sorry Infamy but V2.0 is still in its beta stage (5th beta IIRC) and I have no idea when it'll be publicly released. SMF has been working on it for ages. There is an ignore box on your profile page for PMs with the current version btw but I don't believe it includes posts on the forum as well.
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=437328.0
"2.0 Final has been released
Simple Machines Forum Team is proud to announce the release of the long awaited SMF 2.0 Final version to the public.
This release marks the transition of SMF 2.0 into the current stable release... "
Now where is that Ignore list I made ...
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lol 65 - I didn't know u could ignore yourself
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lol 65 - I didn't know u could ignore yourself
The only way I survive some days is by ignoring the voices in my head.
:lol
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http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=437328.0
"2.0 Final has been released
Simple Machines Forum Team is proud to announce the release of the long awaited SMF 2.0 Final version to the public.
This release marks the transition of SMF 2.0 into the current stable release... "
Now where is that Ignore list I made ...
v2 PLEEEAAASSSEEEEEE
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http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=437328.0
"2.0 Final has been released
Simple Machines Forum Team is proud to announce the release of the long awaited SMF 2.0 Final version to the public.
This release marks the transition of SMF 2.0 into the current stable release... "
Now where is that Ignore list I made ...
v2 PLEEEAAASSSEEEEEE
It's coming but we'll need to test it out first so we are familiar with the new version.
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Everyone is getting ready to put 65 on their ignore list so we don't have to put up with his annoying poo. Same goes for Gerk. wish those two would stop flirting and just hook up.
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It's coming but we'll need to test it out first so we are familiar with the new version.
Thank you.
Is it just me or has the nature of this site as a RFC forum changed over the last couple of Months?
'65
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Is it just me or has the nature of this site as a RFC forum changed over the last couple of Months?
'65
It's just you lololololololololololololololol :lol
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v2 PLEEEAAASSSEEEEEE
It's coming but we'll need to test it out first so we are familiar with the new version.
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OE, any news on this front?
and yes I realise you have a busy work life and have other things in your life apart from OER.
:bow
'65
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OE, any news on this front?
and yes I realise you have a busy work life and have other things in your life apart from OER.
:bow
'65
I had to wait until my monthly internet quota clicked over to a new one so I should be able to work on it again this weekend. Getting the colour scheme right is also a challenge as there's far more code in the new version to wade through to know what does what. So bear with us. I can only give a Michaelangelo reply at this stage.
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OE, any news on this front?
and yes I realise you have a busy work life and have other things in your life apart from OER.
:bow
'65
I had to wait until my monthly internet quota clicked over to a new one so I should be able to work on it again this weekend. Getting the colour scheme right is also a challenge as there's far more code in the new version to wade through to know what does what. So bear with us. I can only give a Michaelangelo reply at this stage.
No problems.
Can't wait for some (one) of the new features.
:lol