CHANGING SERVERS SOON...

Post by **p51** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 10:55 am

Hey guys,
Well, the old hosting company I used for this forum and my http://www.warbird-photos.com site has said we're using too much bandwidth, in excess of 50 gigs a day! So, I'm going to be moving everything next month over to dreamhost, which gives me 200 gigs of space and 2 terabytes of bandwidth, well more than enough

My other main site, http://www.disneycastmagic.com , is on dreamhost and that has been a very reliable hosting source. I'll keep you all updated. What I probably will do is get the site set up on the new server and wait till the last minute to close these boards, copy over the database and restore the forum over there, then change the domain to the point to the new server. It should be a seamless transition with only minimal downtime for these boards. I'll keep you all updated as we get closed to move time.

Moth · Post by **Moth** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:02 am

Will the forum still look the same after the move?

Post by **p51** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:11 am

Yup! You shouldn't notice a difference at all.

Quixote511 · Post by **Quixote511** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:21 am

Thanks for keeping things up P51. I really appreciate it.

Moth · Post by **Moth** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 12:01 pm

Quixote511 wrote:Thanks for keeping things up P51. I really appreciate it.

I agree, Thanks!

KAGNEW · Post by **KAGNEW** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 1:11 pm

thanx P51

tmanthegreat · Post by **tmanthegreat** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 2:27 pm

Thanks for letting us know, will the site URL stay the same?

BTW, you're not an actual Disney employee, are you? My younger brother is a castmember at Disneyland. He loves the job and has been a very faithful employee, but likens the corporate organizatioin to the Third Reich or the Soviet Union, save only that they're not practicing ethnic clensing

Coreyeagle48 · Post by **Coreyeagle48** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 3:27 pm

P51,

You do not get nearly enough thanks for all the work you to keeping the boards in order and working hard to keep this forum in tip top shape. Thank you for your hard work and dedication to our hobby and the time you put into this fourm. Thank you so much!

Regards,

Corey

Post by **p51** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 3:28 pm

URL will all stay the same. http://www.gpxd.n3.net and http://www.warbird-photos.com/gpxd

And no, I'm not an employee... but everyone calls me an 'honorary cast member' or 'guest cast member' since I do a lot of things cast do. I shoot cast photos, get special access and VIP seating, go to cast parties, etc. What does your brother do? I know a LOT of people at Disneyland, and a LOT of people know who I am... mostly entertainment department, but also guest control, attractions, foods, custodial, leads, managers, etc.

scope uk · Post by **scope uk** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 3:49 pm

I'd also like to throw my thanks in to you p-51 for keeping this board up!

grunt1 · Post by **grunt1** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 6:05 pm

Britt would now be the time to add the www.smallscalehq.com domain to the list? It's all registered and ready to go.

VMF115 · Post by **VMF115** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 8:15 pm

Britt I place this website in my fav, will I have to replace it with the new link?

tmanthegreat · Post by **tmanthegreat** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 1:00 am

p51 wrote:URL will all stay the same. http://www.gpxd.n3.net and http://www.warbird-photos.com/gpxd

And no, I'm not an employee... but everyone calls me an 'honorary cast member' or 'guest cast member' since I do a lot of things cast do. I shoot cast photos, get special access and VIP seating, go to cast parties, etc. What does your brother do? I know a LOT of people at Disneyland, and a LOT of people know who I am... mostly entertainment department, but also guest control, attractions, foods, custodial, leads, managers, etc.

He used to work at the Autopia ride during the summer and just moved to retail and is in a store somewhere (he has told me, but I forgot which one). I wouldn't want to work for Disney (at the park at least) but my brother really enjoys it! There are some great benefits! He just may have run across you at one point

digger · Post by **digger** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:05 am

Coreyeagle48 wrote:P51,

You do not get nearly enough thanks for all the work you to keeping the boards in order and working hard to keep this forum in tip top shape. Thank you for your hard work and dedication to our hobby and the time you put into this fourm. Thank you so much!

Regards,

Corey

Agreed. To think there was at least one person who suggested not long ago that it was time for all of us to move on to another forum...blasphemy and mutiny..
Btw, if donations are needed then please ask!

Rowsdower · Post by **Rowsdower** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 8:18 am

Thanks to P51 and all the others who keep this site afloat!

tkjaer21 · Post by **tkjaer21** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:57 am

Many thanks as well. I truly like to read all of the comments for such a great hobby. Even way before I became a member, I always went to this site first when something new has come out.

immeww2 · Post by **immeww2** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:58 am

This site is a great place to visit! First website I hit every morning! Thanks P51 for all your efforts in maintaining this site!

Post by **p51** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:04 am

My main concern right now is CPU useage of the PHP scripts both on this forum and warbird-photos.com. It should be okay. I'm also looking into seeing what exactly is causing the 50 gig a month bandwidth spike.

As far as donations, we'll see on that. I'll let you all know. It's probably about $200 for two years with the super high powered hosting server. I wouldn't ask you all to bear most of that though.

And no, none of the links will change, whatever you have bookmarked in your favorites will still work. It should be a seamless changeover.

FieroDude · Post by **FieroDude** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 8:18 pm

Is it possible that the linked photos in the threads are causing part of the spike? There are a lot of them, and they load every time you open a thread. I don't know if the data that routes through the server from another source counts as bandwidth, rather than a secondary link, but if it does, it techincally passes through twice---once from the source and once to the end-user. I could see it adding up pretty fast.

grunt1 · Post by **grunt1** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 8:42 pm

Linked photos are pulled from the source that hosts them not the forum. The only bandwidth hit to the forum is for the text of the link itself.

gary1930 · Post by **gary1930** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 10:12 pm

Coreyeagle48 wrote:P51,

You do not get nearly enough thanks for all the work you to keeping the boards in order and working hard to keep this forum in tip top shape. Thank you for your hard work and dedication to our hobby and the time you put into this fourm. Thank you so much!

Regards,

Corey

I second that!

Post by **p51** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 1:44 am

Remember, this is on my main site for ww.warbird-photos.com, which is full of aviation photos... So that's a big chunk.

chunks · Post by **chunks** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 1:47 am

p51 wrote:Remember, this is on my main site for ww.warbird-photos.com, which is full of aviation photos... So that's a big chunk.

Chunk, Chunk, did someone call?

normandy · Post by **normandy** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 10:08 am

Britt,Thanks!!! This is a great site.

Flak Happy · Post by **Flak Happy** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 10:33 am

When can we expect the change?

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