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Ok, I just completed purchasing the new hosting account for ASV. And I will soon start migrating the site over to the new host. One thing that impressed me already about the new host is that they actually CALLED me (on a Sunday, no less) to confirm the account purchase. The analyst said that they actually turn down 5-10 account purchases a day because they deem them as "fishy or suspect" ..sounds good to me.

Anyway. There will be a small delay for the name servers to get updated and in place, but the site will be accessible first through http://www.astrosafaivans.org. asv.com and asv.net will be pointed to the new server once thesite is ready for use.

First point of order is moving the "shell" of the site over. I may redesign the front page at the same time.

After that, i will be moving the forum over. The forum will still be phpBB like we are currently using. I currently do not have the funds to purchase vBulletin since the domain name transfers and new hosting took up pretty much all of the donations. I think there is about $40 left in the accout right now.

I would ask everyone to back up and save thier entries in to how to section and members gallery sections as I don't know If I will be able to migrate them properly or not. And we may be going with a different package for the how to section.

I'l also be moving the chat server as well, and may be upgrading the chat software.

Once I get the page setup and the forum moved, the site will be opened for use on the new server.

more to come.

well...i can already get to http://www.astrosafarivans.org/

please try and let me know if you can get there as well.

justice wrote:well...i can already get to http://www.astrosafarivans.org/

please try and let me know if you can get there as well.

I could get to the new page using the second link to ASV.org

Thanks for the update on whats happening Dow,looking forward to seeing
the improvements

justice wrote: I would ask everyone to back up and save thier entries in to how to section and members gallery sections as I don't know If I will be able to migrate them properly or not. And we may be going with a different package for the how to section.

I'l also be moving the chat server as well, and may be upgrading the chat software.

Once I get the page setup and the forum moved, the site will be opened for use on the new server.
more to come.

I have made a copy of the How To forum just in case anything should go wrong during the transfer,let me know if you need it Dow.

you made a copy of it?

Link worked for me!

And the link worked for me, too.

justice wrote:you made a copy of it?

Yep (not today) used HTTrack,nice little program

more reasons to like the new host. I was doing some testing on the new site and for some reason, it would not let me delete a directory I had created. I was able to delete the others, but for some reason, this one would not delete.

I subbmitted a trouble ticket and had response and resolution within the hour. Very nice.

Thats the kind of customer service weez lookin for

The link worked for me. Thanks for all of your hard work.
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and the forum is moved..the data is saved...

and i still have some tweaking to do with the graphics and smilies....

ok, got the smilies and avatars fixed.

and now the template/styles are reinstalled and working again....

please let me know if you notice anything out of place on the forums.