I'd like to take the oppurtunity and welcome all of you back to the proper Oddworld Forums. Again, thankyou for waiting patiently while we rushed around frantically like headless chickens to return everything back online. You would have noticed that both Oddworld Universe and Oddworld-Web were back online before the Oddworld Forums. The reason being, Oddworld Universe occupies a very minimal amount of space, both in the database and file system (not for long
). As for Oddworld-Web, everything is file based, and by using FTP, was fairly easy to upload (though Abe Babe told me it timed out a few times). The only problem was getting the domain name to point to the new name servers correctly.
However, as for the Oddworld Forums. Well, they occupy a staggering amount of space, if you consider how big they were when we first moved. It was an ordeal to download the backup in the first place, and then it was a tradegy to upload them. In all, I tried several methods, one method which I iterated four times. It was this method, on the fourth try (which was yesterday afternoon) that was successful. Though, some of the downtime was attributed to my other commitments such as School, which demanded quite a few exams and assignments
So juggling the two was pretty tricky. The remainder of today was spent re-indexing the post index, so that the search function works correctly.
More importantly, we are now on the new server. This new server is a vast step up from the old one, with bandwidth and disk space being increased drastically. Essentially, this means we can host a range of things we (as in Oddworld Universe and Oddworld-Web) have been waiting to host for quite a while. The increase should also cater for the expected increase of members during the Stranger Influx. Although, with the way Stranger is shaping up (in a very positive manner), who knows, perhaps we might go over our limit. But we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. For now, let us hope that we don't have to move servers for at least another two years. I don't think I could bare it
Now that we are back at the proper forums, all rules will be in full force as usual. I understand that on the ezBoard people are more likely to be a little lax, and that is the case, but we expect the standard to be it's normal from now on.
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