Thelodger
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Andy
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Post by Thelodger on May 18, 2010 6:38:49 GMT 10
Ok as some of you may know most of OZFS is Hosted by Proboards in the US.......who have been brilliant over the last 5 years! However some of the stuph you see on the site is hosted elsewhere......now these folk have been taken over by MYOB here in OZ and have given Sean and I nothing but grief since the takeover.....after recieving an email from them yesterday stating they would no longer host our stuph (just after I forked over $150 to renew) the desision has been made to change hosts. I have found a mob that have given us shitloads of room for two thirds the cost of the other bastages. Now the fun begins to move all the stuph to the new host.......que one nervous as hell window tinter and one Film and Television Editor....NOT Ubergeeks! Soooo the site may go a little haywire or may look bloody weird or may even dissapear........at least till we get shit shifted and pointing in the right direction. If any of you out there have done this before and would like to walk us thru it PLEASE PM me ......I believe the more heads the better on this one! PS if it all goes to crap and falls down the black hole then I guess we might see you on the road sometime!  Andy  |
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shayne
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Post by shayne on May 18, 2010 15:26:55 GMT 10
Good luck!!!  |
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Post by paulbassett on May 18, 2010 16:10:01 GMT 10
The Ozvfr site and I think also the Ozbb site recently moved to Vbulletin, If thats the way you are heading I could put you in contact with the guy that runs Ozvfr in Perth, he could probably help.
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Thelodger
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Andy
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Post by Thelodger on May 18, 2010 18:21:17 GMT 10
The Ozvfr site and I think also the Ozbb site recently moved to Vbulletin, If thats the way you are heading I could put you in contact with the guy that runs Ozvfr in Perth, he could probably help. Thanks Paul we will keep the Proboards side of things as they have been brilliant...the new "host" will have all the helmet,PDF files and some pic's and stuph...only now we will have SHITLOADS of space for more ;D The offer is greatly appreciated too mate Andy |
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Seanus
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Post by Seanus on May 18, 2010 22:15:24 GMT 10
Ok things are moving along ok. All the files have been migrated to the new provider we now just have to wait for the switch to occur. In the mean time I've switched OzFireStorm on to it's "Dial Up" skin so hopefully it will at least be usable. The best news out of all of this is that we are going from a pathetic 150MB of storage to well over 100GB!!! So we might even be able to look at hosting some pics. You never know.  |
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vtrstruck
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Post by vtrstruck on May 18, 2010 23:26:45 GMT 10
Man, for non IT geeks you guys do a fantastic job. I know a little about IT so if you have any server related type questions I may be able to provide some guidance. IT Senior Systems Engineer for about 15 years but it is a big business. Web stuff not my thing really!
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Seanus
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Post by Seanus on May 19, 2010 8:45:18 GMT 10
Hey that's great to know. Thanks for the offer of help.
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Post by storminmuz on May 19, 2010 9:18:26 GMT 10
Andy, it appears that the website www.ozfirestorm.com.au no longer works, it goes to the Crazy Domains website with a note "coming soon". I guess it's part of the hassles you guys are going through, but I thought it was worth reporting.... |
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Seanus
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Post by Seanus on May 19, 2010 11:28:08 GMT 10
Yeah we know that. Crazy Domains are the new host. Hopefully the DNS will switch over sometime in the next 24 hours.
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Thelodger
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Andy
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Post by Thelodger on May 19, 2010 19:14:06 GMT 10
Ok DNS have both been changed,my email works again,the redirects for the .com and .com.au have been put into place. So far so good (I think) |
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Mattjin
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Post by Mattjin on May 20, 2010 7:52:20 GMT 10
It all seems to be working OK. I did not notice it offline, only the images.
I have had my own website since 1994, hosted it on my own BSD server all run from home so I know it can be a drama to move things to a new provider, which I went through around 7 years ago. For us it is mission critical, but for them they do their side when they feel. At least the DNS changeover was prompt and it still works. Best of luck with it.
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Neil2480
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Post by Neil2480 on May 20, 2010 12:42:48 GMT 10
Thank god for this thread as I thought I was going mad and/or my computer was giving up the ghost.  |
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shayne
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Post by shayne on May 20, 2010 17:32:00 GMT 10
I am with you Neil. I have very limited function on here at the moment. The only way I can bring the site up is via an old thread that shows up on a google search. A lot of stuff on the site doesn't work either.
I must be doing something wrong.
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Post by revhead1957 on May 20, 2010 18:47:35 GMT 10
Isn't it funny, you don't know how much you rely on something until it's gone or not working properly....
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Mattjin
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Post by Mattjin on May 21, 2010 7:44:50 GMT 10
I noticed the logo at the top is back this morning. :-) Bit by bit things are coming back to life.
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Seanus
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Post by Seanus on May 21, 2010 21:38:43 GMT 10
Yes a little bit of 'fat finger' trouble. All solved now I think. We can now resume normal programming. Move along people, nothing to see here. |
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Post by johnno88 on Jun 10, 2010 20:46:50 GMT 10
I have faith in all involved with the change over! |
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Seanus
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Post by Seanus on Jun 10, 2010 23:36:08 GMT 10
Your confidence is appreciated. But probably misplaced. |
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buckets
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Post by buckets on Jul 14, 2010 15:52:23 GMT 10
There seems to be a number of "YOUR A WINNER - CLICK HERE" type promotions in the last few days. Is that something we report to the provider or are they pushing this stuff to us for a fee. No big deal, just anoying.... and these tend to be the ones that usually result in someone getting your personal details etc.
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Thelodger
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Andy
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Post by Thelodger on Jul 14, 2010 17:13:05 GMT 10
Naa these are the ads that Proboards runs........If you use Firefox there is a little proigram that blocks them.......
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