I have now moved the forum back to my old web host Hostmonster.com!
The blog is still hosted on the troublesome Sitecloud server, so it was easiest for me to register the new domain eevforum.com to do this.
Not sure if I will keep eevforum.com or go back to eevblgo.com/forum, but for now it will remain on the new name.
Some people tell me separate forum domain name is not good for SEO? Probably right, but I kinda like it so far.
Anyway, I think everything is back up and running, and I've got a handle now on deleting and rebuilding MySQL databases and manually moving the forum, so I'm now much more confident in moving and tweaking with the forum in the future.
Let me know ASAP if you spot any problems.
Speed seems almost instant compared to Sitecloud!
Thanks.
Dave.
Snap snap snap.
Much more responsive at the moment, and hopefully will stay that way
Forum seems nice and quick now.
Shafri, your not alone, seems i am now faceless as well. Small price to pay for a reliable forum i feel.
My gosh, so fast now, one issue i noticed, since i save my passwords, it won't put it in the new site and i forgot what my password was here, so i entered my user name, it said it would send a link to reset, that was about 3 hours ago, no link so far(yes i check spam/junk) so not sure if thats not set up right. But i did find it(options, show passwords) lol
Small price to pay for a reliable forum i feel.
i get used to and like the smf already. i can live with the missing part. in fact, there are missing parts in the more expensive forum app that smf has.
The redirect to eevforum.com seems to be borked in some cases.
If you have a link that includes index.php it redirects to
www.eevforum.comindex.php - note the missing slash.
Should be easy to fix by adding the slash in the right place. =)
SEO....
Any change will hit your Stats.
I think the long term solution would be to move the forum to a subdomain i.e. forum.eevblog. This way you can point it to another server but it stays within the scope of a single domain. Maybe someone else is a bit more current on SEO theories. =)
Problem is having the domain at a provider that allows to do so, and also to use a provider that allows such "external" domains.
SO VERY much better.
I was beginning to give up, it was so slow.
Really good responsiveness!
what i fear is that if this is the like the beginning when the forum was transferred to sitecloud, all were doing well, until yesterday. maybe i'm just thinking too far forward. i just dont want the history to re-occur, or maybe its just the way it is.
what i fear is that if this is the like the beginning when the forum was transferred to sitecloud, all were doing well, until yesterday. maybe i'm just thinking too far forward. i just dont want the history to re-occur, or maybe its just the way it is.
Fear not Shafri, the forum is back on the exact same ultra reliable server at Hostmonster like before the move to SiteCloud screwed up everything.
The only issue might be if I move the Blog back over as well, will the shared server handle the load?
Dave.
what i fear is that if this is the like the beginning when the forum was transferred to sitecloud, all were doing well, until yesterday. maybe i'm just thinking too far forward. i just dont want the history to re-occur, or maybe its just the way it is.
Fear not Shafri, the forum is back on the exact same ultra reliable server at Hostmonster like before the move to SiteCloud screwed up everything.
The only issue might be if I move the Blog back over as well, will the shared server handle the load?
Dave.
Not sure if it will or not, what does Hostmonster guarentee you? in terms of ram and stuff like that? other thought would be get a shared "dedicated" server(you share the box, but you are guaranteed so much CPU use and ram)
Hostmonster worked pretty well before the move, so I didn't seem to be hitting any limits.
The SiteCloud move was supposed to be strategic move for the future.
I may eventually have to move do a dedicated or cloud server, but until such time as Hostmoster tap me on the shoulder and tell me I'm hogging resources, I'll stay with them.
Dave.
The blog has now also moved back to the Hostmonster server OK.
I'm now thinking I'll move the forum back to it's original location of eevblog.com/forum just to maintain the SEO.
I'll have the new eevforum name link to it though, and probably masked so you can use either.
So if the forum goes into maintenance mode again soon, that's what I'm doing.
Thanks.
Dave.
you know your stuff Dave, keep it up. take your time.
My work blocks websites they feel present a security risk and for some reason this change no longer allows me to browse at work :/
Ok, I've moved the forum back to
www.eevblog.com/forumThat keep all the external links, google search stuff, SEO etc.
eevforum.com points to there now.
I think I've got all the paths back and everything should be working fine. Attachments are still coping though, there are a LOT of them!
There may be a few hiccups with email stuff, I need to wort that out.
Both the blog and forum are now back at Hostmoster, just forget that whole sitecloud.com thing ever happened!
Sorry about all the hassle, back to your regular program!
Dave.
Dave,
I'm sure I speak for everyone when I say
Thanks for all the hard work you've put into fixing sitecloud's stuffup.
A Google search with 'sitecloud' and 'sucks' is starting to show more and more hits over the last few days.
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Thanks!! Dave for all the hard background forum work!
Yes, thank you!
and on a side note since you moved the forum back to
www.eevblog.com I can now access it at work again! Productivity shall resume as "normal".
Hey Dave check Invision Power Board. They just released a free addon for advanced SEO + code is Google optimized.. It has Blog addon as well, also Google friendly.
For licence holders they do free forum upgrades and nothing is lost.
For those following the SiteCloud.com saga, they have finally admitted they screwed up big time:
Dear SiteCloud customer,
This is Trey Gardner CEO of SiteCloud and I am writing to update you on our efforts here to better provide you with great service and support.
Let me first say that I have been disappointed by some of our service standards of late, specifically within the last 3-4 weeks. Our speed and uptime have been a problem recently and we are very much aware of this fact and we have been aggressively working on solutions to the issues.
Back in December we had an issue that was related to our cloud hosting provider's network and how they were structuring our cloud environment. We fixed that issue and things were working far better. As we were monitoring the environment we saw an issue which we knew would cause future problems and we began working on the solution. This issue caught up to us this week as we were implementing our solution and some of our clients experienced speed issues and error messages. We are continuing to work on completely resolving the current issues as well as look to head off any future problems.
Our cloud hosting solution is unlike any other providers, anywhere in the world. We believe we are at the doorstep in a new era in web site hosting and we admit that there are some unforeseen areas where issues can pop up however we are confident we can meet those problems head on and solve them more proactively than we have in the recent weeks.
This is not the level of service which you should expect from us, we demand far higher standards of ourselves and you should as well. SiteCloud is a young company but web hosting is an area where I have personally had success and although SiteCloud is different from shared, VPS or Dedicated server hosting because of the Cloud Infrastructure, I believe that SiteCloud will become one of the best web hosting companies on the internet and I am dedciated to making that happen.
As we continue to mobilize to fix the problems we have faced you may always check our http://twitter.com/sitecloud account for updates.
I greatly appreciate everyone's patience as we work to make our services even better. Thank you for your support,
Trey Gardner
CEO SiteCloud.com
Did you also do an update?
I can see who is in a topic before clicking on it!
Cool!
apex
Did you also do an update?
I can see who is in a topic before clicking on it!
Cool!
apex
sometime i got lines of members currently in topic. never caught my eyes before, just couples of members listed. so i guess this is new.