mattadams
04-10-2005, 03:36 PM
It took a while, but it looks like we are back online, completely!
As you might recall, rmftc was experiencing some issues with our hosting companies that was leading to a lot of downtime, malicous (i.e. virus) loads on the main page, and a lot of other garbage that no other website should have to deal with.
I'm proud to announce we have switched over to a new hosting company that allows us about twice as much hard drive space, about 5 times as much bandwidth, and has also made us a 99.9% uptime guarantee. This is AWESOME and will hopefully lead to a lot less downtime and a lot more satisfaction, as well as being quite a bit faster!
It took several long days working on some of the applications to get them back, but they appear to be back to normal now. I won't bore youw ith all the details, but SQL database names had to change, which meant I had to import things step-by-step rather then doing a "easy" backup/restore. There was also a size limit so the 35 meg forums database had to be broken in to 25-30 chunks and imported seperately. I tested out the photo gallery, the online store, and some of the other pages, and everything seems to be working as best as I can find.
I am going to be keeping my eyes on the various pages, but if you come up with anything that is not loading, or is generating errors, or is not how you think it should be, please let me know!!! In about a week I will be taking the "old site" completely offline, everything should be copied but if not, it will be lost so please let me know asap if you see anything out of the ordinary!
Matt Adams - mattadams@rmftc.com
As you might recall, rmftc was experiencing some issues with our hosting companies that was leading to a lot of downtime, malicous (i.e. virus) loads on the main page, and a lot of other garbage that no other website should have to deal with.
I'm proud to announce we have switched over to a new hosting company that allows us about twice as much hard drive space, about 5 times as much bandwidth, and has also made us a 99.9% uptime guarantee. This is AWESOME and will hopefully lead to a lot less downtime and a lot more satisfaction, as well as being quite a bit faster!
It took several long days working on some of the applications to get them back, but they appear to be back to normal now. I won't bore youw ith all the details, but SQL database names had to change, which meant I had to import things step-by-step rather then doing a "easy" backup/restore. There was also a size limit so the 35 meg forums database had to be broken in to 25-30 chunks and imported seperately. I tested out the photo gallery, the online store, and some of the other pages, and everything seems to be working as best as I can find.
I am going to be keeping my eyes on the various pages, but if you come up with anything that is not loading, or is generating errors, or is not how you think it should be, please let me know!!! In about a week I will be taking the "old site" completely offline, everything should be copied but if not, it will be lost so please let me know asap if you see anything out of the ordinary!
Matt Adams - mattadams@rmftc.com