Hi Everyone,
Tomorrow afternoon i will be starting up the new server, when I do I will move over a copy of the site, it won't be a perfect copy and some things will be broken, but by and large it should work.
I will then ask a few people to visit the address and see what they think of the speed and load times etc. If all is successful I will be pulling the plug on this server and migrating over to the new server.
This will take up to 48 hours though most people will be immediately able to access them. During the migration I will be turning this server into read only so you can't post new topics etc.
So please bear with us through the down time. But i need to get this done before the season starts next week.
In the next few weeks I will be purchasing the new forum software IPB and will migrate all the posts from this year over to it. From there, I will turn this software into an "Archive" and allow people to access it to see old posts, but all new posts will be in the new forum instead.
That will take sometime and I need to find the best time to do that as I need to work on the design of it also.
Anyway just a heads up and a call out for a few testers.
Dan
Tomorrow afternoon i will be starting up the new server, when I do I will move over a copy of the site, it won't be a perfect copy and some things will be broken, but by and large it should work.
I will then ask a few people to visit the address and see what they think of the speed and load times etc. If all is successful I will be pulling the plug on this server and migrating over to the new server.
This will take up to 48 hours though most people will be immediately able to access them. During the migration I will be turning this server into read only so you can't post new topics etc.
So please bear with us through the down time. But i need to get this done before the season starts next week.
In the next few weeks I will be purchasing the new forum software IPB and will migrate all the posts from this year over to it. From there, I will turn this software into an "Archive" and allow people to access it to see old posts, but all new posts will be in the new forum instead.
That will take sometime and I need to find the best time to do that as I need to work on the design of it also.
Anyway just a heads up and a call out for a few testers.
Dan