Over the next 3 days I'm in the process of migrating our hosting to another server (with the same provider, just to get some of the latest and greatest features)....
This procedure will involve changing both web and database servers.
During this time everything will be automagically migrated over. However application settings will need to be updated.
During the time after migration, before I've discovered it has happened, there will be some downtime, until I adjust the site configuration.
It'll take just a minute to fix, but there will be a small chunk of downtime.
After this migration occurs, I'll be in the queue for a larger cdn based hosting migration, which will co-locate our website in a bunch of regions, and should speed everything up (not that it is slow at all)
Thats all for the technobabble, now back to your regularlly scheduled program.
Alrightly....
Last nights first migration took a bit longer than I expected. By 9pm the site was functional-ish.
After 9 I began the final transfer to a cloud base hosting.
The files and database moved fine by my management control panel had some incorrect information.
Our home path to the website had changed, but the control panel and my instructions did not.. and continued to reflect the old path.
I forced a change to my new detected path... and everything restored. I took the opportunity to update our forum theme, the buttons seem a little weird though.
Thanks for all the work Ulti.
The sad part is that perhaps 12 people actually visit the site (I just made up a number lol).
I'll take the "under" on that number.
Some of us visit, but just don't post much. :P
Some fun facts:
10 people check the forums regularly (daily -> 3 days).
20 people check the forums within 2 weeks.
That's actually better than I thought lol :)
Hooray for being a daily!
I think.