That wasn’t too bad…
I’m sure you’ve probably noticed that for most of the day the site has been under maintenance, down, or maybe even serving up various PHP guts…I don’t know. Downtime is now over.
I decided that I didn’t have to transfer my domain to get on the new host…I just created an add-on domain and redirected the nameservers to my new InMotion Hosting account. Waiting for my old host to propogate the DNS changes is where the majority of the wait has been…I finished moving the site several hours ago.
I did a little behind-the-scenes cleanup of the ImagesByName and Downloads file folders, so if you encounter any broken downloads, please let me know…I manually edited all of their new locations, so I could have hit commited a typo or two. In fact, if you see anything around the site misbehaving, please let me know about it via the Contact Form.
Update:
It took quite a bit longer than 8 hours for the DNS to change like my previous host had stated. Sorry about that. Aside from that, things appear to be working well. I’m just now fixing my email accounts so that they make use of the new MX records and am receiving my first round of ‘bug reports’. Please continue to send those in using the Contact Me page if you find anything strange. I will fix it right away.
I’ve already had one request for what I did to move this site…anyone else interested? I think I can remember the most important points. There honestly wasn’t a whole lot to it.
Browser: Google Chrome 4.0.249.78 OS: Windows 7
Glad it was an easy move for you… Maybe you could show ‘eztv.it’ how to move hosts :p
Browser: Google Chrome 4.0.249.78 OS: Windows 7
I could do a quick and dirty write-up on it. It really wasn’t all that involved. The worst part for me was moving all the download files as it was about 2GB worth. There wasn’t much else to do after copying everything else and importing the database.
Browser: Firefox 3.5.7 OS: Windows Vista
Hey Jon.
Nice work on the move. Question: There used to be a section to the left that showed recent comments…is it gone or am I just missing it?
-Sinjen
Browser: Firefox 3.5.7 OS: Windows Vista
Also, what hosting package did you end up with at the new provider?
Browser: Google Chrome 4.0.249.78 OS: Windows 7
I actually just finished moving back to the original host. Apparently, Inmotion Hosting’s Apache modules did not like a couple of my plugins and crippled their server. I was suspended twice in under two hours. I will be staying with 1&1 for a while, but I’ve actually spent a lot of time today freeing up resources and doing general cleanup, so things are running a lot better than before.
The recent comments will come back. I had removed them while on the other host to try and reduce the initial page load, so when I re-imported the database back here, it was missing. I still have a few things to do, but I wanted to get the site back online. Please let me know if you come across anything else that’s missing or not working correctly.
Browser: Firefox 3.5.7 OS: Windows Vista
Ah man, that sucks. Sorry it didn’t work out. Are you going to try the move again after you figure out why your site kicked their server’s ass? :)
-Sinjen
Browser: Google Chrome 4.0.249.78 OS: Windows 7
I doubt it. I tried removing everything that I absolutely did not need, but could still be happy with and they still suspended me after 30 minutes. Not worth the trouble.
When I really think about it, I’ve been with this host for a year and a half without incident. I have no real reason to move.