Forum move to new server

[Pumaman]

Greetings,

Due to the forums running up excessive load on the server, the web host asked me to upgrade to a dedicated server, or leave.

So, thanks to Hajo and AGA, the forums have now moved to the AmericanGirlScouts server. The current URL is temporary so don't bookmark it for the long term; I'm currently considering long-term options.

I am aware that the "My games" section of your profiles is broken, this won't be resolved until a final decision has been made on where the forums will be hosted full time.

If you find any other problems with the forums as a result of this move, let me know and I'll get them fixed.

Thanks!

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

That was fast!

[dasjoe]

congratulations on that decision, it was a wise one.

* hajo holsters his gun again

[m0ds]

Good stuff, thanks for letting us know!

[LimpingFish]

Hmm.

I now need to have cookies enabled to log in...

Oh well...

[Barbarian]

Congrats on the server move. It's really great of AGA and Hajo to give their help.
AGS forums is one of my favorite places on the internet, so I would go crazy without it.  So far it looks like most everything seems to be working smoothly for me.

[MashPotato]

I've noticed an improvement in speed performance (before I had been having a lot of slowdown on the forums), so yay for the new server ^_^

[monkey0506]

Everything appears to be working wonderfully. So will the entire BBC domain be moved to the AGS server, or will the forums get a subdomain/folder or what? I'm interested as to where they'll end up.

Anyway...I think it might be a good time to get that "yabb" part out of the URL. These haven't been YaBB forums for some time. Though I could understand the desire to leave it for nostalgic reasons.

[AGA]

I think the yabb is there to avoid the confusion a change of URL would cause more than anything. But it bugs me too, yeah.

[ManicMatt]

I've noticed an improvement in speed performance (before I had been having a lot of slowdown on the forums), so yay for the new server ^_^

Oh yeah!!

Now you mention it everything is fast again!

[Buckethead]

It goes nicely smooth here too! hail the new host ! 

[Scummbuddy]

I think we may have experienced a problem.

It seems that no one can register. I haven't tried this myself as I don't have the time this morning, but I did receive the following email:
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Hi,
I found your email via your website through the AGS forums, I hope you don't mind that. I am Snail and I did join the AGS mailing list but the forums, I am having problems with registering to join, and yes I did answer all questions, - at the end after 'submitting' I get this msg:

An Error Has Occurred!
fopen() [function.fopen]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/home/bigbluecup/www/log.txt) is not within the allowed path(s): (/var/www/vhosts/americangirlscouts.org:/tmp:/var/www/vhosts/adventuregamestudio.co.uk/httpdocs)
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[dasjoe]

it's not a bug, it's a feature! ;)

i'll scan the files for all occurances of the old path and will tell CJ when i'm home.

[voh]

The new server hates me. It ate my cat  :'(

[Potch]

I lOVE the new server!  I was unable to access the forums from my job before because of stupid things that they block.  Now I can use them!  Woo HOo!

[Pumaman]

It seems that no one can register. I haven't tried this myself as I don't have the time this morning, but I did receive the following email:

Hehe oops, that should now be fixed.


Pity really, leaving it like that would've been a good way to keep the riff-raff out.

[fovmester]

It goes nicely smooth here too! hail the new host ! 

For me everything goes much slower...

Where is the server located? Is it in the states? Because that could explain why it's slow for Swedes like me.

[scotch]

It's in Germany (old one was in the US), and it's rather fast! Must be a problem specific to you.

[SSH]

scotch/hajo/aga, can you upload the whole internet to the server, please, so it runs faster?

[Privateer Puddin']

You'd trust Hajo with the entire internet? ¬¬