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You may have noticed some forum downtime earlier today: this is because I have moved the forum to another web hosting company.
The previous host was cheap at 1$/month and yesterday they now wanted 5$/month for the same service (which is quite minimal).
I was pissed off so I found an alternative host, paid for a year of hosting and performed the migration. If we are not satisfied in the next 30 days, I can move it again elsewhere and get a refund.
The new host will cost a little bit more: 1,2€=1,35$/month for the first year and then 2,4€=2,70$/month, but it offers better features and seems more professional. Performance is also better for me, but your experience may vary.

Tell me if you find any issue.

Hosting + domain name fees should be around 25$ for the first year, and then around 42$ after that. I am considering taking donations (using Paypal donations or another similar service) to help finance the forum hosting in the long term. What do you think?
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Thanks Christophe. I've had very bad connectivity to the forum over the last few months, lots of 503 and 500 errors, so this seems like a good move.
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Christophe wrote: I am considering taking donations
I will match any donations.
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I have enabled https on the new host with automatic redirection from http to https.
And the phpbb software was upgraded to the latest available version.
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Thanks Christophe. I'm not sure the redirect to https: is working: I'm still seeing all pages unsecured in http: ?
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