All,
Please note that due to moving of the website to a new host, there will be some downtime over the next few days. When I've a more accurate time frame I'll let you know.
Hopefully this will be kept to a minimum, and not cause to many problems.
The address of the site will not change, and you should not notice any difference when it returns.
Any questions, please ask.
Cheers
Dan
Another one?? Poor Dan. But try to enjoy your Christmas!! = Tim
Tim,
I last changed host about 8 months ago, changed then as the previous host was becoming very unreliable.
I am only changing now as the host I use (who I am very pleased with) are stopping hosting services !
It should only take me a couple of hours, but may take a couple of days to feed through the internet.
Cheers
Dan
Hope it is not too much work for you Dan.
Thanks Dan for letting us know. We really do appreciate all the hard work you do on our behalf.
Eileen.
you are so brilliant Dan. We do appreciate all your hard work on our behalf. Hope you will have a fab Christmas. It has been another great year on A4A. Any news on the merchandise? :D busy_lizzie
So whens the big move taking place then Dan? :-\
What/who is going to be our new host then? ???
Like to add my appreciation for all your work on the site, past present and future. :) :)
Aw Dan you are such a considerate administrator! Thanks for letting us know - have a wonderful Christmas, and don't work too hard!
The change over will happen this evening, the site will be off line from about 10pm - and over the next day or so it will (should!) reapeear for everyone.
If you have any problems please give me a shout on admin@allotments4all.co.uk.
Cheers
Dan
I would like to add my appreciation for all the hard work that you have put in . Have a good rest at Christmas .Drink ,Party and be Merry.
Hopefully this is the new server and we are all happy !
Cheers
Dan
Thank you Dan once again for your hard work on this wonderful site
you are a treasure we all very much appreciate.
Best wishes Rosebud.
Wow! that was a quick changeover wasnt it. Or maybe not. Dont really know. For once it happened whislt i havent been aroungd much so havent missed A4All at all. Well done Dan! ;D ;D
Changeover....what changeover ??? You are a national treasure Dan - would just like to echo all the other comments. Have a great Christmas :D :)
Thanks Dan and a Merry Christmas
I thought we were moving to a new host? Still looks like Yabb SE the old host to me. I was under the impression that they were stopping webhosting?
I have to say though ive had a few problems with a4all since the 'move'. last night the site wouldnt load properly (even after clearing my browser cache), and still seems slow to load today. Sorry! :-[
PS half the 'buttons' ie Reply, Modify, delete etc are not visible either. They are still there, just not appearing on the screen.
Richard,
YaBBSE is the board software, not the host. The previous hosts were, lewismedia - who informed me about 2 weeks ago that the are stopping hosting services tomorrow !
We are now hosted with lypha, who will hopefully provide a good long lasting service.
I'll have a look and see if I can spot anything that would have stopped you ising the site last night.
Cheers
Dan
Thanks Dan for clearing that up. I got confused between Hosting and Software.
Still having a few problems at my end. Use of A4all isnt as smooth as it was before (not at present at least).
We too keep getting error messages, saying that the site has insufficient memory due to a bug in the operating system, theirs not mine. Did give an error number, 37 and 35 I think.
It was a database error on the host.
I am trying to sort out what went on to stop it happening again.
Sorry for the lost sunday night :(
Dan
Aha Eric, Eileen emailed me as she seems to be getting similar memory type errors as you were getting. Ava has given her some tips, so all being well she will be back soon.
Me, not a problem at all, everything hunky dorey so I am a happy chappette.
Thanks Dan! Hope you get to have some 'down time' over Christmas and relax! ;D
Phew, well that went quite smoothly Dan. Had a few probs similar to Eric and Eileen, but it seems sorted now. Thanks Dan. Have a great Christmas. ;D
Me too had same probs as Eric yesterday and today kept getting page cannot be displayed several times with an error "Failure in submission of form. Session timeout."
I'm reviewing the performance of the new host, and we may move home again very soon !
Cheers
Dan
Just to keep you updated Dan, same message as Roy up to approx 20 mins ago i.e. Gateway Timeout thingy !
Best wishes, and thanks for all the effort you put in to keep the site running smoothly !
Hope you have a wonderful Christmas.
Strange - i had those messages a couple of days ago. Now fine, though I still have buttons missing. Have to guess where the reply button is ???
I am exploring other options in case our new hosts do not improve.
Richard, try doing a CTRL F5 and see if you get the button, otherwise right click where the button should be, and select show picture.
Cheers
Dan
Oh dear, what can I say - that was not a good start to our new hosts record was it !
Sorry for the outage.
Dan
Don't worry about it Dan - you are doing a great job - we all appreciate it :-*
Quote from: Admin aka Dan on December 13, 2004, 18:03:30I am exploring other options in case our new hosts do not improve.
Richard, try doing a CTRL F5 and see if you get the button, otherwise right click where the button should be, and select show picture.
Cheers
Dan
Control + F5 doesnt work on AOL and the 'show picture' thing brings up (occasionaly) a 'red cross' box. Sorry. Thanks anyway.
Fortunately when I put the cursor over where the buttons should be i do get a little 'tool tips' label telling me what the buton does.
Hello Dan tried for almost 2hrs last night to get on the board, i don`t want to whinge at all, just thought i would let you know.
All the best with the new move and thank you very much for all you do. Rosebud.
Not good at all, very slow, freezing, error messages, perhaps it's the newness and will improve with age. I have been trying to get this message on for ages.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder??
Not a good day, but "here we are again, happy as can be, all good friends & jolly good company"?? = Tim
YUp, in...out...in...out...shaking it all over the place...and now I can get in. Phew! Mind you, in your absence I did manage to get all of those computer chores that I am forever putting off done. Maybe if you could restrict it to once a week, it would help with my housekeeping. ;) ;D Hope it's not driving you to drink Dan. :P
Does not take much to drive me to drink :P
Mind, cudboard is running dry - must stock up for christmas.
I'm taking steps to improve performance - all will become clear very soon ....
Without you we wouldn't have the site anyway, Dan! :-*
Well said Wicker!! We really do apreciate all your efforts on our behalf Dan. Thanks again.
Eileen.
Things a lot better now all thanks to our Dan :)
The forums are still a bit slow at times (on some topics but not others) - but perhaps thats because they're so popular ;D