The Forum has Landed - We have a new host!

[M1 Tanker]

Seems we are back up on a new service provider!!!

It might be up and down for the next 24 hours or so while the URL propagates.

Basically our old host had become impossible to contact (phone,email, smoke signals) and at 0300 Hawaii time we started having issues. I was able to fix all the issues, but I do believe the server we were on was full....so we were stuck. I found a Host today that specializes in Vbulletin forums and while expensive, I think it is worth it.

Post issues please!

[Optimus Prime]

No issues yet, but where's my cozie?

[vista461]

I took the trigger pack on my CETME figuring i could pop on here for reassembly instructions and the site was down.:eek:

Luckily I figured it out.lol

[Perro Del Diablo]

did you go with urljet (the one i suggested a month or two ago)??
if so, what are your impressions?? i need to move our site soon

[M1 Tanker]

I did Mike...I could not remember who you suggested, but after reading on the VB forums for over an hour, there was no doubt that URLJET was who you were talking about.

Impressions are fantastic so far. I went with the VB gold plan...which was 15% off if you paid for a full year, so instead of $35 a month, it was like $29.75. I also moved my domain registry over too, since I got to renew it for free for another year.

If you currently have a Control Panel based provider, they will migrate your forum over for free. It costs us $75 to have them move it since it was via Putty. Windows based servers cost about $150 to have moved over. Perro I tell ya, they were fast, professional, kept my service ticket updated all day long as they worked on it (about 8 updates in 3 hours). They also have 24/7 phone support. I filled out the forms online at about 1030 my time and they had us back up by 1700 or so.

I don't know how it will pan out with bandwidth usage, but we have 15GB of storage and our database is about 1.5.

[holescreek]

There must be something going around. I got up to do my morning skips through the sites and Weaponeer is down for all intents and purposes. The screen comes up then goes dark.

[Planning]

Militaryfirearm.com has moved Host!

M1, do we need to take up a collection for all this added expense?

just let us know.

ron

[M1 Tanker]

At the moment Ron we are operating off the Dust Cover Group Buy funds. We should be covered for the rest of the year.....but we will have a much greater annual expense then we had before.

[WildBillCody]

That shouldn't be hard to cover...

[cfish]

Chris, next time give me heads up the site will be down. I had to sit in a Canadian airport all darn day long and watch the paint dry on the walls. LOL! Glad the transition went well.

[Otis61]

At the moment Ron we are operating off the Dust Cover Group Buy funds. We should be covered for the rest of the year.....but we will have a much greater annual expense then we had before.

I sense a group buy of some sort coming up!!! I'm glad its all figured out.

Thanks M1!!!:rockon:

[Buddymack]

A group buy sounds great, what am I building?, I woke up on my first day off ......no MFA.........no GB.....ah Ebay sucked, so I had to peruse and catch up on my other forums.
I am here for you guys if you need, just let me know.

[7.62guy]

thanks for all your work, i have have no understanding of what it takes to keep something like this up and running, but like what has already been said we can keep up with the costs oneway or another.

[M1 Tanker]

Thanks fellas. This was SOOOO not planned, but once I got 350 emails from the server saying we had issues....caused by the host, had to run with it..

Anyone having any issues?

[bladeworks123]

Works great! Now if you can figure out how we keep from having an election that lasts more than four years....:icon_biggrin:

[M1 Tanker]

FYI - having some issues moving the URL registration from old registrar to the new...so if it goes up and down, its ok :)

[M1 Tanker]

I noticed some of the forum settings have changed and this may have been done by URLJET. The "views" column updates were turned off for example. If you see anything else different, lemme know.

[bladeworks123]

I see though that the views count shows up when you drill down to the individual posts.

[bladeworks123]

Noticed that when you are replying to a post, you cannot see any of the pics in the messages below like you used to. That was knd of handy so you could refer to apick while you were writing a reply.

[M1 Tanker]

Noticed that when you are replying to a post, you cannot see any of the pics in the messages below like you used to. That was knd of handy so you could refer to apick while you were writing a reply.

Hmmm, that one I'll look into tonight Blade, thank you.:rockon:

[cfish]

Thanks fellas. This was SOOOO not planned, but once I got 350 emails from the server saying we had issues....caused by the host, had to run with it..

Anyone having any issues?


Ya I have issues, my 401k is half what it was, the freedoms I had as a kid my kids don't have, my dollar in my wallet doesn't go near as far as it did, and there seems to be a question as to the legitimacy of our President. Oh did I mention I worry from day to day if I'll have a job tomorrow. :icon_neutral:
Now if you can fix all that, you would be a god worthy of worship:wink:
Oh no issues here!!Works for me