SITE NEWS: OER MIGRATING TO A NEW HOST

[WilliamPowell]

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 

[1965]

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.

 

[FNM]

New colours are certainly easier on the eyes.

A worry when a bloke loves pastel blue lol

[one-eyed]

Phew! 

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  . 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  . 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 .

[1965]

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.

[FNM]

Thought you of all people would understand.

Now now lol 

[FNM]

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

[WilliamPowell]

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 

And yes things are faster, which is one of the things we wanted as part of the change over 

[Fruity Morgan]

I am liking it WP. 

[Smokey]

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!!  

Well done to all responsible.   

[Penelope]

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.

 

[bushranger]

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  )

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.

[cub]

Well done and so far so good, heaps faster.

[WilliamPowell]

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 

Please remember any problems let us know

[Infamy]

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  ).

Any update on this ignore function?