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Andy S
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Changing servers

Sun Feb 01, 2004 8:19 pm

We will be moving from one server to another at some point in the next 48 hours. Although we are staying with the same hosts (clook.net) I will be moving the service to a friend of mine who is reselling clook's server space. All this means is that I pay my pal, Rob, instead of Clook themselves, and he gives us a bespoke package, so we get more of what we need for less money.

To this end I have uploaded the entire site onto his server and I will configure the forum to be 'down' on his server. I will then switch the DNS so that eventually the F.A url will point to the new site... at this point the forum will appear to be down. I will then disable the old forum and upload the database to the new forum and enable that one, thus ensuring we don't have anything lost in the transition.

Hopefully this will all be relatively painless resulting in a very short downtime for all.