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Important: planned forum downtime

Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2017 9:34 am
by ChristopheF
We are in the process of migrating the management of the domain name dungeon-master.com from one service provider to another.
This may cause some forum downtime in the next few days.
If you find that you cannot access the forum at some point, please be patient and try again later. It will eventually come back.

Re: Important: planned forum downtime

Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2017 7:17 am
by ChristopheF
Migration complete. You may have noticed the forum was not accessible in the past day.
Now the next step is to move the forum software to a new host, I'll try and do that over the next week-end.

Re: Important: planned forum downtime

Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2017 8:40 am
by Saumun
Thanks for your efforts Christophe. They are appreciated.

Re: Important: planned forum downtime

Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2017 9:10 pm
by ChristopheF
There will be another short downtime during the week-end while I move the forum to the new host.

Re: Important: planned forum downtime

Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2017 9:48 pm
by ChristopheF
The forum has now moved to a new host. Please reply here if you find any issue.

Re: Important: planned forum downtime

Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2017 11:46 pm
by Gambit37
Thank you Christophe for sorting all this out. I'll make a separate post about this to explain why these changes were made.

Re: Important: planned forum downtime

Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2017 1:05 am
by Paul Stevens
My old links don't work. I had always linked to:

https://dungeon-master.com/forum/ucp.php?mode=login

edit: It works fine if I prepend with "www."

It took me two days to discover my problem. ( I had thought
that the site had not yet been moved.)

This is only a problem if you suspect that many others
might have made a similar mistake.

Re: Important: planned forum downtime

Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2017 7:42 am
by ChristopheF
In fact, this is because the new host does not support https. Just replace https by http in your address and it should work (with or without the "www.").
Unfortunately I cannot configure anything that would automatically redirect from https to http.

Re: Important: planned forum downtime

Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2017 8:07 am
by Paul Stevens
No problem. I was just reporting my experience for whatever
it might be worth.

Once more.....and again....Thanks for your efforts in this matter.
I hope we can keep this alive for another couple of decades. I'll likely
be long gone by then. They are starting to replace my parts already.

By the way.....I think this new hosting site is 'quicker' than the old.
It feels more responsive.

Re: Important: planned forum downtime

Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2017 4:22 pm
by Saumun
I had the same thing, but fortunately I was in contact with Triax via email who sent me a working link.
I knew something was wrong, as I had an email saying I'd got a pm during the time I couldn't access the forum.

Re: Important: planned forum downtime

Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2017 12:56 pm
by boyflea
Hi,
just looking at how the 'active topic' traffic has really dropped off: given that users now need to login via a different link,
https://dungeon-master.com/forum/ucp.php?mode=login becoming
http://dungeon-master.com/forum/ucp.php?mode=login,
is it sensible (or possible) to mail this information to all recently-active users in a bulk-post?

What is the alternative for promoting the new forum:
also, Google SEO also points to the 'https: version... so again not sure what actions can be taken on this front.

Re: Important: planned forum downtime

Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2017 3:18 pm
by terkio
Now, I understand why the DM forum disapeared on my dodophone.