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Web Host Situation
« on: May 17, 2017, 04:35:07 AM »
As some people have noticed, the forums have been acting screwy lately.  This is an issue with our host, and while we have lessened the effect, it has not gone away completely.

As such, there is a real argument to migrate to another host.  What are people's opinions on this?  And does anyone have suggestions on good hosts?

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Re: Web Host Situation
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2017, 06:28:37 AM »
Let's migrate to another host.  I'm a fan of bringing the forums back to mostly public, if for no other reason than that web crawlers can find the content and thus make searching it easier, or letting non-registered accounts see stat topics (I've definitely linked stat topics here to others before for reference).

No good suggestions as to who, though.

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Re: Web Host Situation
« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2017, 07:28:21 AM »
I do not know of good hosts for a forum like this, but agree that moving would be good. 

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Re: Web Host Situation
« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2017, 03:11:56 PM »
Moving sounds good. I don't know anything about hosts but am willing to chip in if money is an issue.

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Re: Web Host Situation
« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2017, 05:03:49 PM »
Moving sounds good. I don't know anything about hosts but am willing to chip in if money is an issue.

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Re: Web Host Situation
« Reply #5 on: May 17, 2017, 07:42:15 PM »
Moving sounds good. I don't know anything about hosts but am willing to chip in if money is an issue.

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Re: Web Host Situation
« Reply #6 on: May 17, 2017, 07:48:50 PM »
Moving sounds good. I don't know anything about hosts but am willing to chip in if money is an issue.

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Re: Web Host Situation
« Reply #7 on: May 18, 2017, 08:34:57 PM »
Who hosts IGN's, RPGFan's or Gamespot's boards? Maybe the middle is the best example to look into? Money will come from my direction, too.

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Re: Web Host Situation
« Reply #8 on: April 10, 2018, 06:09:55 AM »
Can we give another shot to making the forums public again?  They've entirely disappeared from Google searches, which is too bad.  Kinda handy to be able to search the forums using Google in general.  If the issue really was Host-specific, it's reasonably likely it's fixed by now.  If it's not fixed, at least we'll have some clue about whether to change the software, or whether it's worth the effort to think about moving to a new host.

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Re: Web Host Situation
« Reply #9 on: April 10, 2018, 11:06:01 PM »
No arguments against moving.  But I can't contribute money because I am poor person.