Dungeon Master Forum

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?

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.

Christophe wrote: I am considering taking donations

I will match any donations.

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.

Thanks Christophe. I'm not sure the redirect to https: is working: I'm still seeing all pages unsecured in http: ?

Uh oh... redirection only worked for some URLs. I have fixed this and now all requests to the URLs below should redirect to https://www.dungeon-master.com/forum/ :

http://dungeon-master.com/
http://dungeon-master.com/forum/
https://dungeon-master.com/
https://dungeon-master.com/forum/
http://www.dungeon-master.com/
http://www.dungeon-master.com/forum/
https://www.dungeon-master.com/