Website move

[El Gordo]

Remember the message about moving the RC hosting servers from Doncaster to Southern Florida? That was 16 months ago.

Well I'm now actually about to do it. Like definitely.

There are two things I need to do 1) move the runningcommentary.net files over to the new server and 2) move the forum (which is currently still on the old runningcommentary.co.uk domain).

The first bit is relatively simple. There may be a short time when .net is unavailable, while the domain 'propagates'. I'm always told that this can take "up to 48 hours" but in reality it's usually less than an hour.

There are several hundred files to move over, so it's likely that there'll be a few broken links and missing images for a while, but I'll get this sorted. Now that I'm off the beer for a while I seem to have a lot of time on my hands .

The second bit, the forum, is more complicated. I may take the opportunity to move the forum to the rc.net site so that it's all in the same place. Seems kinda logical. But if you link to the forum from your 'Favorites' as I'm sure everyone does.... ...you'll have to change the link. But don't worry about it at the moment.

As I'm moving the forum, I'm hoping to do two things: include the older posts that were sort of archived by accident, and which SP thought I had forgotten about, and upgrade to the latest version of the forum software, which will have some new features and, more importantly (for me anyway) should be a bit more robust in combatting spammers, which have been a nuisance for about 2 years now.

I'll be doing the .net move over the next day. The forum move will have to be planned and thought about, so will take a few days longer. Will give as much warning as possible.

Ta.