MEM is moving discussion thread (see Announcements forum)

[AdeV]

If you have any questions or comments regarding the forthcoming move to new web hosting, please post them here, ta! 

[b.lindsey]

Thanks Ade....this should make the forum more stable and hopefully your life easier too, once the transfer is done.

Bill

[Chris J]

Thanks Ade....this should make the forum more stable and hopefully your life easier too, once the transfer is done.

Bill

Are you still staying with the simple board software ?

I hope so because I like it.

[propforward]

No questions, just good luck with it, hope it goes well, and thanks for looking after it.

[arnoldb]

Chris, the forum software and look is staying exactly the same 

Kind regards, Arnold

[jonesie]

  thanks to adeV for doing all this and for the great monitoring of this site. thanks again hope all go well jonesie.

[Chris J]

Chris, the forum software and look is staying exactly the same 

Kind regards, Arnold

That's great.

Well done all those mod type people 

[AdeV]

You may have noticed some more downtime earlier this afternoon (about 1420 GMT).... amazingly this wasn't the server, and took the entire daily.co.uk operation offline for about 10 mins.

You can probably imagine what I was thinking, but here's a clue: :

Luckily, after 10 mins, all is well again... just "one of those things"...

[Arbalest]

No questions, just good luck with it, hope it goes well, and thanks for looking after it.

+1

Thanks for looking after us!

[ScroungerLee]

Thanks for putting in the work for this transfer.  I have become addicted to this forum and the people here, unexpected down time like in the past makes me feel funny

Lee

[Dean W]

I just hope the move makes things easier on you and the other worker elves, Ade.
Thanks for keeping things going, all of you!

[tvoght]

Hi,
  I just read your procedure for fixing up the hosts file for the interim period while the DNS clears.

I believe what I will do is simply type the IP address (195.26.90.15 ?) directly into the URL bar at the top of the browser. Should work fine, and it's a lot more straightforward than messing around with the hosts file.

--Tim

[AdeV]

Tim,

It won't work I'm afraid - the new hosting plan isn't on a dedicated server; the IP address resolves to many websites. The webserver uses the name you type in the browser bar to tell it which site to serve up.

You can try it now - type the IP address in & see what you get.

[Chris J]

I saw the other thread with the instructions for PC users, what abut Mac users ??

[Chris J]

Tim,

It won't work I'm afraid - the new hosting plan isn't on a dedicated server; the IP address resolves to many websites. The webserver uses the name you type in the browser bar to tell it which site to serve up.

You can try it now - type the IP address in & see what you get.

I did

"If you are seeing this page instead of your website, please contact your hosting provider as there is a problem with your website"