Well I've gone and ordered some new hosting

Woo Elephant Yeah · Post by **Woo Elephant Yeah** » August 31st, 2005, 11:19

This is to avoid future downtime and support fuckups and so on with my current host provider.

In a cruel twist of fate, this does however mean that I may have to take the site down, in order to transfer it to the new hosting

I need to get together with Stoat to discuss this as we may take the opportunity to make sure everything is up to date with the 5cheduler, xfire list, arcade, and any other modifications.

I ahve a feeling I am going to need to destroy the existing Arcade and start from scratch, as there are a number of issues still outstanding with iti that I just can't fix.

So to sum up, there's going to be lots of shit going on in the background, so bare with us whilst we sort 5punk out.

4.8GB disk space
120GB bandwidth :D
Unlimited SQL databases

Sol · Post by **Sol** » August 31st, 2005, 11:44

*Bares*

Rain · Post by **Rain** » August 31st, 2005, 11:47

Do what ya gotta do as they say, and if it comes offline for a bit well its better in the long run. Sounds like a pain in the arse actually so have a thank ye & and a woo too

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » August 31st, 2005, 11:54

Part of the evolution process, that fact that you need to improve the hosting is a good sign of success :D

5punk has entered the fallopian tube

Renegatus · Post by **Renegatus** » August 31st, 2005, 16:45

Any chance of a mass-mail when it's up?

cashy · Post by **cashy** » August 31st, 2005, 19:08

or a guestimate at the date would be nice

Woo Elephant Yeah · Post by **Woo Elephant Yeah** » August 31st, 2005, 20:51

cashy wrote:or a guestimate at the date would be nice

Well both myself and Stoat (mostly Stoat for he is mighty and powerful in the way of teh codezzz) have been working behind the scenes on it today, and hopefully everything will be ready to go across and switch over very soon.

Bare in mind that switching nameservers from one host to another can take up to a couple of days, but I promise 5punk will be back better, more stable, with extra content.

Of course, Dave the monkey will still be "hanging" around on the front page.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » August 31st, 2005, 21:05

istr some stuff with DNSs etc was fettled recentlyish that makes it a feckload faster.

also, depending how the new hosts do it, you might be able to blag an IP or subdomain out of them to avoid downtime.

Woo Elephant Yeah · Post by **Woo Elephant Yeah** » August 31st, 2005, 21:54

I'm about to break Fabyak's heart, but.....

the new site will have a completely fresh install of the Arcade, which will mean....

all highscores will be lost

cashy · Post by **cashy** » August 31st, 2005, 21:57

noooo! but i had one for that girl that did the speed moshing n everything!!!!

Post by **Roman Totale** » August 31st, 2005, 23:11

*points and laughs at Fabyak*

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » September 4th, 2005, 14:30

Welcome to the new host.

There's still some details to sort out, but everything should work as normal.

Let me know if anything is broken.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » September 4th, 2005, 14:34

huzzah! :D

clock's wrong

NiGhtcrawler · Post by **NiGhtcrawler** » September 4th, 2005, 15:40

we need are cool smileys back too please :D

shot2bits · Post by **shot2bits** » September 4th, 2005, 17:04

Stoat wrote:Welcome to the new host.

There's still some details to sort out, but everything should work as normal.

Let me know if anything is broken.

hmmm some of the smileys arent working for me, they still show up as words, sometimes they work so it probably isnt my computer

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » September 4th, 2005, 17:09

that'll be because of the custom smile pack that was used before

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » September 4th, 2005, 18:02

The 5cheduler is really suffering with the server changing to american time, so it will be re-built in the next fiew days.

shot2bits · Post by **shot2bits** » September 4th, 2005, 20:25

hmmm, mr wellyphant sir....i dont suppose you have a copy of my old avatar (the gun) as its disapeared, and you so kindly put it up for me before

Post by **FatherJack** » September 4th, 2005, 20:49

^ same as. I can find the image, but it doesn't look quite the same as excellent one you did for me.

Woo Elephant Yeah · Post by **Woo Elephant Yeah** » September 4th, 2005, 21:03

Aha, right then, if you have suddenly lost your avatar, and it's one I hosted for you, it should be somewhere in here

http://5punk.co.uk/b3ta/

I have done this for quite a few of you, so I won't go through them all