It's as good as any other day to do it.

The new server is set up and I tested it last night. All that is left to do is to shut this forum for updates... copy the database across and open the forum on the new server.

Then you just have to update your DNS settings if you want to get to it immediately, and I will update my DNS settings so that it takes effect by magic pretty soon.

You should simply start accessing the new server at some point today.

The big bits:
1) This server will close... you will not be able to post.
2) When you get to the new server... you will be told, and you can post.
3) It can take in the worst case scenario up to 48 hours to get to the new server, this depends on your DNS provider (ISP or work) and is out of my control.

See you on the other side.

how exciting

It's happened, it's done... this is the new server.

Have fun :)

Woohoo..... hello new server! Hello brave new world!

Yeah my host file works!Hello new server!

I feel like I am in a big house on my own.

I want to run around and do stuff.

But I can't think of any thing to do.

It's all so quiet in here!!! Just me and you tommy, just me and you! ~NAKED BAR~!!!!!!! :P

I was already naked. That was what I decided to do.

So... Tommy, what do you like then? Bikes? Maybe we can start a forum about fixed geared bikes, a forum so people can rant and swear and criticise stuff..... just a thought

bet they're having a lovely time on the old server... bah humbug!

Damn! I wanted to post more rubbish on the old server!
3 is a crowd... eh? Want some privacy chaps? try londonsinglespeed.org.uk ;-)
EDITED url

http://67.19.83.27 is the old address.

... i have no answer to that!! :P

so is this the new one?!

it must be because after what i said about you on the old server... you wouldn't talk to me ever again if it was :)

It feels the same......but.....different.

Am I dead ?

echo... echo...

nice new place you got here VB - i like what you've done with the fire place

You bunch of fucking cnuts....Damn, new server, you can actually see this.

on a non joke not what happened to all the recent comments

They don't get transfered. The site will have been mirrored at a particular point in time.
Any comments made on the old server after that stay on the old server and are deleted when the server is purged of FGSS.

The lost posts.

shit. i had a good couple of rants/arguments going there

WTF?!?! i refreshed and i got a page asking if i want to upgrade to a "vanilla" something. what was that?

Go copy them over. The old serve is still running on the i.p I posted above.

Too much hassle, just insult people and rant on the new server.
May have to do more than usual to keep the daily average up though as this mornings utterances are gone.

You wankers :]

"Like chain lubricant that you spray the wrong direction and onto your rim, this post shall be smeared across eternity waiting for the brake-pads of our creator to reveal their hidden presence.."

Ahem.

That bit of downtime was me adding another 756MB of RAM to the server. It wasn't quite cutting it on 256MB.

Let's see how this works.

Ha, not a bad idea. I do so hate the sound of a creaking pagefile.

^excellent work Vb - we barely noticed... ;-)
Like petals scattered by an Autumn breeze, knowledge shall be scattered unto the ether. or something. eh JOL?

pagefile on linux? swap you mean.

I dunno, I was kinda hoping that as I'd got linux to run happily in 60MB that the 256MB was going to be enough. Didn't quite turn out that way, every apache2 child process was using 20MB, and MySql is sucking all of the CPU, fun!

Anyone good at optimising MySql5? If so could you take a look at my my.cnf and offer a tweaked version?

Sorry VB, I didn't mean to offend with my Windowsisms ;-) And I know f all about MySQL. Good luck...

Are you hosting from home or something now vb?

http://www.slicehost.com/

They give you a blank Linux image, you download and compile everything.

Blimey, that hosting looks pretty good value for money, especially considering the control you get.

Providing you can build apache, MySql, set up the DNS, and the virtual hosts, and get MySql installed, are happy on the command line, etc, etc.

It's hosting by developers and for developers. There is no hand-holding at all.

That said, it's a hell of a bargain if you can do that stuff.