Forum Upgrade!

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We're now on the latest phpbb. It's been a while coming and at 30mins took a lot less to do than feared

Any problems please report them in this thread.

This in preparation to for a move shortly off of this server to an ECW instance which I'm researching right now.

[Cloudane]

Found a screw loose!


Nar all looking good, wouldn't have known it was upgraded which is the best kind of upgrade

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Well we don't have some of the snappier features more modern forum software has BUT the venerable phpbb3 is pretty solid these days and the upgrade process is a lot easier than it has ever been.

Which was a nice surprise to get

[Cloudane]

In this case "wouldn't have known it was upgraded" is intended as a compliment

Yes there's vB with all manner of bells and whistles but with those bells and whistles come headaches, ludicrous pricing, and a company with a history of lying ("free lifetime upgrades if you buy the expensive one" being followed up by "yeah we changed our minds, you're gonna have to pay again for v4, deal with it")

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I got a mirror running on an AWS server now

http://aws.gazaxian.com/phpbb/

I'll have a chat to Muttley and get the DNS changed over this weekend probably

[Portland]

When the powers that be are unaware I've carried out a platform upgrade, I'm always very grateful.

[Little stoned kiwi]

Are there any hosting issues? I often find page loading pauses halfway through and slow response when posting.

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It does seem a little bit slower after the upgrade, not sure why to be honest.

[Little stoned kiwi]

I had the problem before the upgrade, it might just be my shit connection.
I'm on an old exchange where I can expect only 10Mbs on ADSL2+. The upside of that being I have no cap though because my ISP doesn't meter TiVo traffic and can't work out what's TiVo or not.

[Cloudane]

Eagerly watching fiber cabinets spring up here

Thank you government and local businesses for the subsidy <3