*important* Server Switch *important*

Post by **simon** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 1:04 pm

You may or may not know that the current forum is hosted by freeyabb.com for free. We (Shug, Ed, Simon I and I) have discussed moving the forum to a server that we have more control over. Simon I (ironside) has kindly taken the time to sort this all out along with a few other things that should become apparent soon.

We are requesting a dump of the forum database from the existing hosting company. Unfortunately, we don't know when the dump will be done and it also has to be emailed to the original forum create (Cal) who will then pass it on to Simon. As a result of this, we will lose posts when the switch is made.

There's nothing that can be done to avoid this happening and as soon as the switch is carried out, this forum will be locked. As long as you are using the http://www.scottishelises.com url, you won't have to change anything.

Cheers,

Si.

Tom · Post by **Tom** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 1:13 pm

Does this mean we lose all posts, PM's saved etc?? Have photos and links etc. i'd want to keep. But profile, usernames etc stay??

Post by **ironside** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 1:48 pm

Tom wrote:Does this mean we lose all posts, PM's saved etc?? Have photos and links etc. i'd want to keep. But profile, usernames etc stay??

It really depends on what freeyabb include in the database dumps. As soon as we get it we'll know for sure. I would guess it will include PMs, posts, profiles and usernames.

Links and linked photos as part of posts, PMs and profiles and things should be fine too. I think the only thing there is a chance of losing are the avatars, depending on how they work and whether they are included in a the dump from freeyabb (if they are stored in the database or stored on the server as seperate files.)

Simon

Stewart · Post by **Stewart** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 8:36 pm

Good work guys

Thanks

mac · Post by **mac** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 12:47 pm

Just noticed that the link on http://www.scottishelises.co.uk point to the freeyabba and not here - anyone got Del's e-mail?

Mac

Post by **Shug** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 12:57 pm

mac wrote:Just noticed that the link on http://www.scottishelises.co.uk point to the freeyabba and not here - anyone got Del's e-mail?

Mac

That's not Del's address (that's scottish-elises.co.uk) That's one of the ones I bought. Simon has control over it now, so I daresay he'll see this and redirect....

Post by **simon** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 1:04 pm

Either way, it needs updated as there are still people joining freeyabb. I'm PMing them pointing them to here but I'd rather all our links were updated.
We also need to get a front page for the forum at some point so we can stick in some meta tags for the search engines to pick up. That will let us submit the url to search engines and make it easier to find

Post by **Shug** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 1:08 pm

simon wrote:Either way, it needs updated as there are still people joining freeyabb. I'm PMing them pointing them to here but I'd rather all our links were updated.
We also need to get a front page for the forum at some point so we can stick in some meta tags for the search engines to pick up. That will let us submit the url to search engines and make it easier to find

Ah - csck... I don't have control over .co.uk... Okay - own up, who bought it?

MacK · Post by **MacK** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 2:37 pm

Shug wrote: Ah - csck... I don't have control over .co.uk... Okay - own up, who bought it?

It doesn't say, just a private individual.

Domain name:
scottishelises.co.uk

Registrant:
Scottish Elises

Registrant type:
UK Individual

Registrant's address:
The registrant is a non-trading individual who has opted to have their
address omitted from the WHOIS service.

Registrant's agent:
Fasthosts Internet Ltd [Tag = FASTHOSTS]
URL: http://www.fasthosts.co.uk

Relevant dates:
Registered on: 20-Apr-2004
Renewal date: 20-Apr-2008
Last updated: 21-Mar-2006

Registration status:
Registered until renewal date.

Name servers:
ns1.fast-hosts.org
ns2.fast-hosts.org

WHOIS lookup made at 14:31:35 25-Jul-2006

Scottish Elises

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