Topic: New webhosting for TWoUYL in 2009

[danyboychicken]

¿Maybe a youtube [TAG] in forum?

It can be in a special category with password for users exclusive use.

I don't know...

[UruseiNeo]

¿Maybe a youtube [TAG] in forum?

There are 195 times 3 parts, that's 585 videos in a single forum. Not only is it too much for a single post, scrolling takes forever.

[Kroptik]

#Invalid YouTube Link#

You mean something like this dany?

Offtopic: Just picked this video for the kicks.

[Lum-chan]

Within a few days the domain for this site will be moved to my new provider. This can result in an error message from my new provider. As soon as this happens, I'll start to re-activate the whole site again. This might take some time. Don't worry, it will be back online as soon as possible!

[SandStorm]

ok then lum-chan, good luck with the moving

[cata]

Does that mean that the Forum will be offline temporarily?

[SandStorm]

sure cata.
lum-chan will need to upload his backups to the new host, and configure the redirections stuff.
it will take around 24 to 48h maybe

[cata]

Oh no! How am I going to live without "my" Forum for two long days? (Ironically, I've been absent for way more days than 2... lol )

Thank you for keeping us posted, Lum-chan. =)

[Lum-chan]

I just started to backup the database (about 300 mb's). This should work ok (I hope). MyPHPAdmin is such an ass with large DB's but I am trying to make a new backup of this DB.
Local backup of all content has been done this afternoon, so the most precious part (the DB that is) is being backupped at this moment.

I'll keep ya posted!

[veehive]

Thank you as always, Lum-chan! _/-\o_ _/-\o_ _/-\o_

Offtopic: by-the-way -- Cata: your avatar isn't showing up for me any more (been like this for a couple days). May want to check this, and may want to wait until after the Big Move is done.

[UruseiNeo]

Offtopic:  I can see her avatar just fine

[cata]

Veehive that's strange... I can see every avatar in this Forum... I'm going to change my avatar, tell me if you see it now, ok?

[SandStorm]

i can see it O.o

[Lum-chan]

Offtopic: Avatars are showing up just fine 

As the time comes near, I'm making automatic backups every 5 hours until the domain has been moved. I'm doing it this way to make sure all posts are copied as well. Of course it might happen to lose some posts after the last successful backup and the moment the domain-content goes offline  ;(

As soon as I see the actual move to my new provider I'll change the paths in the several configuration files of the forum-software and restore the last/newest backup of the database.

I'll try to make this happen as smooth as possible. You might experience some errors while I'm working on several settings.

Expect a total downtime for at least 24 hrs but I'll try to keep it shorter (I hope) but as soon as the basis is up and running, I'll make a global announcement on the progress 

[Lum-chan]

As I wrote my previous post I have uploaded all static content to my new webspace. This includes the full forum-software and all galleries and miscellaneous files. The backups are now being made each 5 hours but not restored until the domain-switch is complete.

After restoring these, the only thing left to do is to remap the several sections to the correct sub-domains, reconfigure several files/settings and reactivate the whole site again.

If this goes well than not only I'll have no sleepless nights anymore and you will be very, very happy to regain access again to TWoUYL.

I only hope this won't be necessary again in the upcoming years (another 10?)