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saint:
All good, I hope ;D
The server we're on now is on its last legs. One drive is failed and the other is failing. I have purchased a new server and have been migrating things over. It's in "final-beta" stages now and I'm hoping by next weekend to have us all moved over from here to there. I do have nightly backups from here and have a several day old copy of them there now, and will do another "final" transfer of data before shutting this box down.
Right now on the new server:
* the forum is online, and upgraded to the latest version of SMF. The messages/etc from a few days ago are there and working. Still a few tweaks to plug ins to work out. Note - please don't try to find the new forum yet, it's going to be wiped and a fresh copy of the most recent database from here moved over there as the last step. It's not hard to find, but the new forum isn't quite ready for company yet.
* The files library is back online and updated. I've gotten most of the material online, though a handful of files are missing for now - I should be able to get those restored when I get back to it. You are welcome to take a sneak peek at it if you'd like. http://new.files.arcadecontrols.com/. Remember the logins from that system are not the same as your forum login. They did get moved from the old to the new so if you had an account on them before it should be working there now. Feel free to use this system if you want, I don't think we'll be doing any database wipes/reloads on it, I consider it "done."
* Various behind the scenes things that no one but me really saw and had to deal with are almost all rectified. Yay!
* Wiki is next on the list to sort out and bring back online.
* The old SMF arcade system doesn't appear to be supported anymore :( Not sure if that's something folks want or not?
* Tapatalk working
* More space, faster processor, more RAM, hardware RAID-1 instead of software, updates OS, etc.Anything else I need to be thinking of that isn't working here?
Please keep any comments to the thread on the Forum Discussion post below.
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=159712.new#new
saint:
During the transition from old to new site, I'll put this one in Maintenance Mode and keep it online so if anyone for some reason still ends up here instead of the new site they'll have a pointer to the new one.
Should all happen automatically, but if you find yourself at the wrong site, the address information is:
- Old site: 74.208.213.158
- New site: 74.208.43.115
leapinlew:
You’re awesome!
Any chance you would accept donations? I’d be happy to throw a few bucks your way.
saint:
I appreciate the thought, but no :) This forum is my way of giving back to the Internet community at large - "paying it forward" so to speak. Be nice to someone or donate time/money to charity on this site's behalf if you're so inclined.
Cheers!
--- saint
Howard_Casto:
We appreciate you man. I know I don't say it enough, but you are a good guy.
The only thing I can think of that you haven't mentioned is controls.dat. I know it disappeared the last time the server broke down, but I can't remember what happened to it. I've got the end product backed up (the inis/xml) but Sirpoogna managed all the database and backend. So I don't even know if it's possible to restore, it's been a dead project for quite a while now, but I do get the occasional question about it, so I thought I would ask.
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