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Old 17-Jan-2016, 23:37
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Post Website Server Move and Downtime

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This week I am beginning work on the long awaited website server move away from our current hosts to a new host. This is mainly in an effort to reduce the website overheads as we really don't make full use of what we pay for, and it will save the club a good chunk of money every year.

The idea is that I'll get the new website up and running and use one of our daily backups to copy the forum content across. We can then take some time to test everything, and make sure that all the functions work.

Once this is done, I will put a notice up on the website with the expected date and time that I will make the forum inactive. I need to do this so that I can make a full backup of the forum posts and copy these over to the new server knowing that we won't lose any posts made on the old server if it stays up and running. Once the copy is done, we'll switch the DNS so that the domain name points to the new website and the forum will be back up and running again without losing any posts.

I'm expecting the new server build and test to take a couple of weeks as I'll be doing this in my spare time (what little I have!) and I want to ensure that everything works. Last time we lost the server when a network card failed, I managed to rebuild the server from scratch in about a week with some late nights, but that was only because the site completely disappeared! I think I can remember everything I did, so it should be pretty painless this time...

Hopefully the DNS switch will be pretty quick and everyone will see the new site within a few hours of it happening, and even the stragglers shouldn't be without the site for more than 48 hours.

So no need to panic just yet! Things are happening in the background and it should all be pretty seamless, and I'll give plenty of notice, but the website will be down for a bit when we switch and we'll try to keep disruption to a minimum!


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Old 21-Jan-2016, 20:51
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If anyone gets the jitters if/when the site goes offline, there is an option to see SOME archived pages here:

http://web.archive.org/web/

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Old 22-Jan-2016, 18:11
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LOL, highly unlikely Frank

BUT I might rope you into a bit of testing of the new site as it's up and running ... so I'll drop you a PM


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Ducati 748S | Ducati Hypermotard 1100S | Ducati Panigale V4 SP #876 | 600-620SS DesmoDue Racebike #111 <-- Sold!!
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I might rope you into a bit of testing of the new site as it's up and running ... so I'll drop you a PM

No problem - PC & Laptop are warming up
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Old 26-Jan-2016, 14:26
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UPDATE: so the website move is actually going a lot easier than planned! If anything it proves that the backup system that we put in place last time we had a server crash and rebuild have been working!

So far I have a copy of the website up and running and it all seems to be functioning correctly from what I can see. It has copied across all the forum posts and uploaded files, and I'm able to post to it including adding upload files, etc. The blogs are working along with the Online Shop. The last steps are to get the mail server setup correctly - it's up and running and sending email from the website, and redirecting email to the correct accounts, but we also have a few POP email accounts that the ROs use and these need to be duplicated and tested.

I am hoping to finish off the last bits sometime this week (when I've finished writing / final edit of Pronto mag!) and then we'll switch over.

In all I'm hoping that the forum will be unavailable for about 2 hours at the most, although the site will stay up, so I'll do this late one night to keep disruption down to a minimum.


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than screaming in terror like his passengers.- Jim Harkins

Ducati 748S | Ducati Hypermotard 1100S | Ducati Panigale V4 SP #876 | 600-620SS DesmoDue Racebike #111 <-- Sold!!
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Old 26-Jan-2016, 22:49
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Sounds good, just let us know when as I'll be putting up a DD update at the end of this week,


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