Server move!!!!!

[SuperJETT]

I've had it with our hosting provider. We'll be moving sometime next month.

Based on Anthony's recommendation, I'm going to try dreamhost. If they don't work out, pm him!!!:sneaky:

[Moondance]

Keep us posted

[Anthony]

LOL!

You should see if when they set you up if they give you a temporary URL to access the site on their servers if you aren't 100%. Of course you always have 97 days and like I said, so far no problems here.

[Hogggman]

After the move can we have the shout box back???

[SuperJETT]

After the move can we have the shout box back???

Maybe!

[Anthony]

I emailed Dreamhost to let them know the premiere PWC site was going to move to their servers and not to let me down :biggrin:.

[thrllskr]

I emailed Dreamhost to let them know the premiere PWC site was going to move to their servers and not to let me down :biggrin:.

Seadoo.net is moving there??? :wall:





:biggrin:

[Anthony]

Gives him an easy excuse though, doesn't it?

[Anthony]

They changed how I refer people to Dreamhost now.

Use this link and don't enter anything for who referred you:

http://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi?14612
--or--
enter the tartaglia as the promo code

EDIT: Or don't its up to you. This should help though if you were trying an older link and having trouble. Hopefully that clears things up.

[Moondance]

I anyone else having trouble with the site today? It keeps getting hung or will go to server not found page. Don't think it's on my end. Other sites seem to work fine.

[WaveDemon]

I anyone else having trouble with the site today? It keeps getting hung or will go to server not found page. Don't think it's on my end. Other sites seem to work fine.Me too.

[SuperJETT]

As mentioned, I pretty much hate our hosting provider's service. We'll move soon.

And Anthony, can you be a bit more aggressive?

[T-bone]

do it friday night. that way everything will be hunky come monday.

[Anthony]

As mentioned, I pretty much hate our hosting provider's service. We'll move soon.

And Anthony, can you be a bit more aggressive on making sure you get a cut or what?

I'm not trying to be aggressive at all. A friend was trying to use the old link and apparently the process changed and we had about 5 emails back and forth of me trying to explain the old way before I realized it changed. It just added confusion and wasted both of our time.

You don't have to use the link at all and nobody else does either. The referral isn't worth me being perceived as "aggressive" I was just trying to save somebody else some time if they tried.

Good luck with everything and no worries.

[SuperJETT]

Move is planned for tonight/tomorrow as long as I have time.

[SuperJETT]

I've disabled adding more attachments until I get us moved.

[kawasakit2me]

Daaaaad! Are we there yet?

Is this it? :squint: Or are you trying for it again next weekend?

[SuperJETT]

We're back on the old server for now. It appears there is a problem with the theme or a plugin that I didn't have time to find, so I switched back.

I'll probably point x-h20 to the new server and work on it then point x-h2o to it once it's functional. That way, it can be an immediate switch for everyone just by going to x-h20 until the dns propagates for x-h2o to work also.

BTW, I found out during this that some people go to x-h2"ZERO".com then get redirected to here, which is the proper address, x-h2"OH".com. Water is 2 parts Hydrogen, 1 part Oxygen, so it's H2O. I have the other domain set to redirect to here.

[Anthony]

BTW, I found out during this that some people go to x-h2"ZERO".com then get redirected to here, which is the proper address, x-h2"OH".com. Water is 2 parts Hydrogen, 1 part Oxygen, so it's H2O. I have the other domain set to redirect to here.

Guilty as charged...but its not my fault....I swear.

[gj_fx1]

the 'zero' vs 'o' thing could be messing up your server switch if its hard coded some place.

[SuperJETT]

the 'zero' vs 'o' thing could be messing up your server switch if its hard coded some place.

???

x-h20 used to point to an ipowerweb server which automatically forwarded you to x-h2o. x-h2o is on a realwebhost.net server, completely different company. I'm moving it to dreamhost.com.

The problems I'm having are vbulletin related, not DNS related.

[Whtbread]

I tried the riot radio link and I could not get there. Not sure if it's the link or my computer.

[SuperJETT]

I can't get riot either, their server must be down. I help with admining the board, but don't have any control on the server really.

I tried the riot radio link and I could not get there. Not sure if it's the link or my computer.

[Whtbread]

I can't get riot either, their server must be down. I help with admining the board, but don't have any control on the server really.
Cool, I should probably get some work done anyways.

[Moondance]

I tried the riot radio link and I could not get there. Not sure if it's the link or my computer.I can't get on it either, using link or otherwise. X-H2O still kinda screwed up for me too. Obviously I'm on now, hopefully it will keep working.

[guiness92]

I still cant get on from my house. Every single web site on the net works for me but this one and I cant figure out why the hell I cant get it to work

[SuperJETT]

I still cant get on from my house. Every single web site on the net works for me but this one and I cant figure out why the hell I cant get it to work

Can you get www.x-h20.com ?

[SuperJETT]

This is correct, the new server has x-h20 and I'm working on getting it setup, but everyone will see this message for now.
i get:

"This is the new server, please use the old server until it's ready."
its a vbulletin page and it also has a link that says "X-H2O.com" and it goes to http://www.x-h2o.com/. when i click the link from that page, i get:


This is probably just a browser cache issue. Clear your temporary internet files (IE) or cache (Firefox)


"Site Temporarily Unavailable
We apologize for the inconvenience. Please contact the webmaster/ tech support immediately to have them rectify this.

error id: "bad_httpd_conf" "


everthing else is working fine on my end.

[guiness92]

Well I finally got on at home right now, we'll see what happens tomorrow when I try to get on lol.

[SuperJETT]

Ok, I've got it functional, it was a combination of 2 issues, I just had to have time to disable one thing at a time.

I'll probably switch us over on Wednesday, so if you can't get here, you'll be able to go to x-h20.com (that's a zero this time, not an "oh").

I'll try to do it late at night so the DNS propagates overnight and most people can get on normally in the morning.

When I do it, in the board disabled message I'll put the temporary link also.

[SuperJETT]

We're running on our "other" domain name, x-h20 (with the number zero instead the letter o ). I'll switch the dns for x-h2o to point here tomorrow once I'm satisfied there aren't any problems.

I know the Googlemap isn't working, but if there are other things not working let me know in this thread.

[SuperJETT]

Alright, both domains point to the same place now, and they both work, so I'll probably leave it alone.

I'll get the ads up eventually and the Googlemaps may only work if you access it from x-h2o so I can hard-code that link to make it work for everyone.

Pretty painless, and only took about 1.5 hours, most of which was transferring 1.3Gb of attachments from the old to the new server.

[romack991]

nice job, we appreciate your work!

[Mark44]

Thanks JETT !

Mark44

[SuperJETT]

Boy, we've been on dreamhost for just over 12 hours and already experienced our first outage.

Not looking very good so far....

[Moondance]

Boy, we've been on dreamhost for just over 12 hours and already experienced our first outage.

Not looking very good so far....OK, I hate to hear this, but I'm glad it wasn't just me. Thought it too good to be true:frown:

[SuperJETT]

OK, I hate to hear this, but I'm glad it wasn't just me. Thought it too good to be true:frown:

I will say this, they already had a ticket open by the time I reported it so they were on top of things at least.

[Moondance]

I will say this, they already had a ticket open by the time I reported it so they were on top of things at least.That's positive service:smile:

[yamaslut]

my reply emails point to H2 Letter O and I get a page that tells me the sites name has changed from O (Oh) to 0 (zero) and it's not letting me go any further after that...

[SuperJETT]

my reply emails point to H2 Letter O and I get a page that tells me the sites name has changed from O (Oh) to 0 (zero) and it's not letting me go any further after that...
Your DNS is still pointing to the old server. Just give it some time for all the DNS servers to update. It's supposed to take up to 72 hours, 12-24 is normal, some are faster, some are slower and I just changed it last night around 10pm. Mine was updated in about 30 minutes, fastest I've ever seen.

I'll probably leave things as they are though, so both x-h2o and x-h20 bring you here.

[WAB]

So now we are x-hTwenty, not x-h2o. :ugh:
I think I need a new decal.

[WaveDemon]

So now we are x-hTwenty, not x-h2o. :ugh:
I think I need a new decal.isn't H20 the last bomb sequal to halloween...

http://www.crankycritic.com/archive98/posters/halloweenh20.jpg

[SuperJETT]

So now we are x-hTwenty, not x-h2o. :ugh:
I think I need a new decal.

Nah, it's just that while the dns propagates, I can guarantee x-htwenty will work.

We have both domains registered because some people read it as h-two-zero instead of h-two-o.

[SuperJETT]

So far Dreamhost has had 2 outages for a total of about 3 hours in the first 21 hours since we moved.

Yikes, I'm glad I didn't cancel the old account yet.

[Anthony]

So far Dreamhost has had 2 outages for a total of about 3 hours in the first 21 hours since we moved.

Yikes, I'm glad I didn't cancel the old account yet.

lol....don't look at me, I had nothing to do with this :wink:.

Well that's why they give 97 days I guess. Sorry if it has been crappy so far hopefully it turns around.

[Superjet3]

This host sucks ass the site seems like it is down more than it is up.....

[romack991]

lol....don't look at me, I had nothing to do with this :wink:.



blame it on the couch rider! lets get him!:starwars:

[Anthony]

lol...add another thing to my list....

*ducks*

[keefer]

Maybe DreamHost is just dreaming of being a real hosting site when they grow up. Redundant servers?? Drive Mirrors? Bandwidth management? Whats up with that, we dont need no stinking redundancy.

[Anthony]

Not for nothing but it seems to be running pretty fast now. Still on Dreamhost or did you go back?

[SuperJETT]

We're officially on Dreamhost. There were a couple of problems on their end the first day (not related to us but affected us) but it's been better recently.

It appears I've got some issues after the move so I'll be working on a clean install to flip over to possibly today. Some functions in the background aren't working properly and it's affecting other items like profiles so I need to get that cleaned up.

[SuperJETT]

We're upgraded now, I'll reenable the addons as the night goes on.

[keefer]

Thanks for all of your hard work on this. We all gripe and bitch a little but all in all it has not been too bad. I think that this is a move in the right direction. Thanks again.

[Phill]

What he said ^^^^

[2lick]

I dont know why you do it all but you do.... THANKS FOR THIS SITE!!!

[SuperJETT]

I dont know why you do it all but you do....

It's for the chicks, definitely the chicks, namely my wife.:sneaky:

[Anthony]

It's for the chicks, definitely the chicks, namely my wife.:sneaky:

lol! 2 funny

[Big Kahuna]

thanks Darin.......

[SuperJETT]

Back up to full speed except system e-mail.

[Big Kahuna]

that RSS thingamaggie is missing, still dont know what it does

[SuperJETT]

I just want to say thanks to everyone for surviving the move and a lot of little changes over the past week getting the domain names straightened out. It was kind of a p.i.t.a. but it's worth it.

We're now with dreamhost, who have had some issues recently but they do get them straightened out fairly quickly and keep me informed so we'll see how it goes.

Currently, and the way I wanted it from the beginning, x-h2o.com is the domain name, but we do have x-h20.com also (x-htwozero) but if you go to x-h20.com it will automatically kick you to the proper domain and you probably won't even notice.

I'm working on a couple of new features and might have them up today/tomorrow as I get time. My priority today is getting my ski running again and I took a day's vacation to do it.

Now leave me alone!!!!

[Anthony]

Thanks for all the hard work!

[SuperJETT]

Things are a little smoother now, eh?

[h2odesperado]

agreed!