JTR Forums - migration to cloud hosting, Monday 15 November

[Amanda Lloyd]

All seems to be working fine. A job well done 👍

[Michael Banks]

I’ll try again with the smiley

No luck. It’s not important Chris but I thought I’d mention it. Amanda’s appear to be working. Maybe it’s something to do with me using an iPad?

[Chris Phillips]

I’ll try again with the smiley

No luck. It’s not important Chris but I thought I’d mention it. Amanda’s appear to be working. Maybe it’s something to do with me using an iPad?

Just testing to see if I can use a smily.


(Edit: No, I can't. Also, when previewing a post, I am seeing a white rectangle instead of the post button. And also a different font from the one I'm used to.

I'll have a look into it.)

[Chris Phillips]

There are links to smilies in the posts, but the images seem to be missing. The same thing for old posts. I hope that can easily be fixed by vBulletin.

Amanda used a special character rather than a smily:
👍

[Michael Banks]

Cheers Chris, I’ll try the same👍

Edit: my own characters work

[Chris G.]

I'm checking everything now. Testicles, spectacles, wallet and watch. . .

[Chris Phillips]

Cheers Chris, I’ll try the same👍

Edit: my own characters work

I've let vBulletin know about the problem of the disappearing smilies, but no response yet. :-(

[Michael Banks]

I've let vBulletin know about the problem of the disappearing smilies, but no response yet. :-(

Cheers Chris

Looks like the problem is fixed.

[Chris Phillips]

Cheers Chris

Looks like the problem is fixed.

Yes, the person at vBulletin got back to me today and has fixed the problem.

[Chris Phillips]

Thanks to Steve Blomer for volunteering to become a moderator on the site!

Thankfully the moderators have little to do at the moment. Long may that continue ...

[Phillip Walton]

Is there a donate button?

[Chris Phillips]

Is there a donate button?

Thanks for asking, but we have received enough donations for the initial stage of the new hosting. That will last until June next year. So people will have a further chance to contribute then. I have kept a note of all the people who kindly offered to help this time, so I can get back in touch with people individually then.

[Chris Phillips]

Later today I will point the jtrforums.com domain name to the new web hosting account.The forums themselves have already moved to the vBulletin cloud hosting, but this will be a change of the web servers that direct visitors to the cloud hosting. We are moving to a different hosting company (InMotion) from the present one (Bluehost). In the future, the new account will also be able to host other material such as a static archive of the discussions, and images that are currently hosted by third parties.

I hope there won't be any interruption of the functioning of the site as a result of this, but it's possible people may see a security warning for a short time. If anyone does see this, please could they let us know at jtrfcommittee at gmail dot com ?

[Chris Phillips]

Later today I will point the jtrforums.com domain name to the new web hosting account.The forums themselves have already moved to the vBulletin cloud hosting, but this will be a change of the web servers that direct visitors to the cloud hosting. We are moving to a different hosting company (InMotion) from the present one (Bluehost). In the future, the new account will also be able to host other material such as a static archive of the discussions, and images that are currently hosted by third parties.

I hope there won't be any interruption of the functioning of the site as a result of this, but it's possible people may see a security warning for a short time. If anyone does see this, please could they let us know at jtrfcommittee at gmail dot com ?

If any unexpected problems do arise, again information will be provided here:
https://www.hanged-for-the-word-if.o...migration.html

[Chris Phillips]

Later today I will point the jtrforums.com domain name to the new web hosting account.The forums themselves have already moved to the vBulletin cloud hosting, but this will be a change of the web servers that direct visitors to the cloud hosting. We are moving to a different hosting company (InMotion) from the present one (Bluehost). In the future, the new account will also be able to host other material such as a static archive of the discussions, and images that are currently hosted by third parties.

I hope there won't be any interruption of the functioning of the site as a result of this, but it's possible people may see a security warning for a short time. If anyone does see this, please could they let us know at jtrfcommittee at gmail dot com ?

I did this about an hour ago, and I believe I've been going through the new hosting for some time. The new SSL certificates have been generated, so I hope things are working as they should be.