Forums Moving to a new home!!
Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 5:12 pm
Just a heads up. Due to the issues I've been having with bluedomino I am planning to move the forums to dreamhost shortly. I'll begin prepping for the move today. I'll have everything set over there and ready before I begin the domain move. Once the domain move begins I'll backup the forums and and import the DB over to the new host.
The issue is that for a few days the forums might be down. I plan to put up a temp forum so we can continue to talk during the move. However I do not plan to preserve that data so anything posted or said will be lost after the move.
Also I will be upgrading phpbb from 3.0.4 to 3.0.5 and replacing the portal for the forums with a new portal system. The current portal is pretty much dead, the developer hasn't done anything to it in about a year. I'll be switching to a more supported portal. I'll also be upgrading the wiki and the gallery to the latest versions as well as the Mantis system.
Now the last time I moved a domain from blue to dream it took 48 hours. I'm hoping this move will be quicker.
I like dreamhost, besides the fact that they are a lot cheaper then blue, they do not limit us in any way. So the old (You've exceeded your DB traffic limit for the month) messages will be a thing of the past. Also they support other features...such as streaming video and other things.
I think this will be a good move for us...it just might be a painful move for a few days.
Terry
The issue is that for a few days the forums might be down. I plan to put up a temp forum so we can continue to talk during the move. However I do not plan to preserve that data so anything posted or said will be lost after the move.
Also I will be upgrading phpbb from 3.0.4 to 3.0.5 and replacing the portal for the forums with a new portal system. The current portal is pretty much dead, the developer hasn't done anything to it in about a year. I'll be switching to a more supported portal. I'll also be upgrading the wiki and the gallery to the latest versions as well as the Mantis system.
Now the last time I moved a domain from blue to dream it took 48 hours. I'm hoping this move will be quicker.
I like dreamhost, besides the fact that they are a lot cheaper then blue, they do not limit us in any way. So the old (You've exceeded your DB traffic limit for the month) messages will be a thing of the past. Also they support other features...such as streaming video and other things.
I think this will be a good move for us...it just might be a painful move for a few days.
Terry
