[Quadophile]

You always do a wonderful job of switching and this time also things are going smoothly

[feckit]

You do a great job running the forum.

Could you try running the country as well!

[Quadophile]

Originally Posted by feckit

You do a great job running the forum.

Could you try running the country as well!

I hope that in my lifetime I will see Ian as Prime Minister of Great Britain. Can you imagine PC Review get together at 10 Downing Street ?

[V_R]

Nice one Ian.

Out of interest, couple of questions. If you dont mind

What exactly was involved in the move, (I'm just interested) and i cant remember how we check if we are using the new DNS, is there a way? Will doing a DNS Flush make any difference?

[Ian]

Originally Posted by feckit

Could you try running the country as well!

Haha, now that would be fun

[Ian]

Originally Posted by V_R

Nice one Ian.

Out of interest, couple of questions. If you dont mind

What exactly was involved in the move, (I'm just interested) and i cant remember how we check if we are using the new DNS, is there a way? Will doing a DNS Flush make any difference?

A DNS Flush might speed things up if your ISP DNS has picked up the change. You can test if you are on the new server by going to a fake URL on the site (just make up a filename) and if you get a grey bar along the top with red error text, then you are on the new site.

The move involved:

• Getting hold of a new server
• Install control panel software, MySQL, PHP etc...
• Freeze old database and make a "dump"
• FTP old files + DB dump to new server
• Restore DB dump to new database
• test, test, test
• Change nameservers from old host to new one
• Bingo!

Most of the time was spent adding lots of tweaks to PHP and MySQL to make sure that lots of things are cached.

[floppybootstomp]

In best John Travolta voice:

'Why, it's greased lightning...'

Well done boss

[Me__2001]

not sure if its related to the server move or not but when i look at the latest posts and click onto 'last page' for flops' mini blog it takes me to the first page

[floppybootstomp]

Originally Posted by Me__2001

not sure if its related to the server move or not but when i look at the latest posts and click onto 'last page' for flops' mini blog it takes me to the first page

That happened to me with the previous server and, I note, with the new server.

Not just my thread referenced above but all threads with several pages.

I'd always considered it a quirk and just put up with it but I guess it is a fault.

[Me__2001]

That's interesting flops, it works fine if i click the page number, just the last page one that doesn't work. I can't remember it being there before, it probably was but i can't remember and there aren't many long threads on here that are active atm