Day Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 As you may or may not been aware DCFC Fans has suffered from slow loading pages, downtime for the past couple of weeks and even breaking the site completely one day. I am sure this has frustrated many of you as it has me! I have been in contact with our host on several occasions, each time told all issues have been resolved when clearly they haven’t. I have lost all confidence with our current host and I feel it would be best for us to now move to a new company. Over the last few days I have been looking at several companies and hopefully I have now found us one that should run DCFC Fans comfortably. This unfortunately will mean more downtime as the site is transferred. Moving the site is fairly quick, what takes time is for our domain to point to the new IP address. The official line is 24/48hrs however this can be much quicker through some internet service providers. I’m sure many of you will know what I will say next and that’s you may need to clear your cache and cookies if you are still unable to access the forum. If you feel comfortable changing your DNS settings to Google public this will also help. For more info on this https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using Finally during the server move my email will also stop working until the move has been completed. If you still cannot see the site on Sunday, drop me an email then. Any emails before chances are I won’t receive. The server move will start on Friday morning (17/6/16) with the site being switched offline. Thanks in advance for your patience, lack of moaning and understanding, David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LesterRam Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Sorry for your troubles, are you on shared hosting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted June 16, 2016 Author Share Posted June 16, 2016 Kinda, it's cloud vps. Absolute pain in the arse for an extra £50pm. Hopefully be worth the move Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LesterRam Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Well I have just moved some of my sites to a new dedicated server, UK servers for the serps with cpanel for £29 per month(50% off), I was paying £375 per month and don't notice any difference, depends on your spec. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Boycie Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 1 hour ago, LesterRam said: Well I have just moved some of my sites to a new dedicated server, UK servers for the serps with cpanel for £29 per month(50% off), I was paying £375 per month and don't notice any difference, depends on your spec. What sites are they, (I know you wanted someone to ask.) ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LesterRam Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 1 minute ago, Boycie said: What sites are they, (I know you wanted someone to ask.) ? No sorry, I thought David was struggling to find hosting, I recently moved from unstable and expensive servers, I only have two sites now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boycie Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 12 minutes ago, LesterRam said: No sorry, I thought David was struggling to find hosting, I recently moved from unstable and expensive servers, I only have two sites now You tease you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted June 17, 2016 Author Share Posted June 17, 2016 14 hours ago, LesterRam said: Well I have just moved some of my sites to a new dedicated server, UK servers for the serps with cpanel for £29 per month(50% off), I was paying £375 per month and don't notice any difference, depends on your spec. I'm not all clued up on servers so I prefer to stick with managed which comes at a cost. The new one is UK based again, so far no Russians on the support desk. Not sure what we are on now, they just looked at the site and said here, sign up this package which had no specs given. New server has 4gb Ram plus 16gb virtual, SSD hard disk, automatically takes backups 4 times a day and can finally use caching with memcache which should I hopefully make thinks run a lot quicker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted June 17, 2016 Author Share Posted June 17, 2016 Just to let you know if you are seeing this post you are on the new server. I wasn't expecting us to come back online as quick, would have been quicker had it not been for our old hosts crap setup. A couple of you sneaked on and posted when an old backup was restored due to errors on the most recent, that has been fixed now and those posts have been lost in the internet. I have yet another software update to install but I will leave that for a few days. Let me know what the speeds are like, if you have any issues etc. still have a couple more things to apply to the server that will speed things up even more hopefully. Just want to see what it's like without those applied. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 Bloody hell, almost had to resort to doing some work there for a minute. Good work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shang Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 I've noticed the website is a lot snappier than before. As always cheers for your work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mostyn6 Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 @David has this move been at any extra personal cost to yourself? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted June 17, 2016 Author Share Posted June 17, 2016 £50 extra per month which is better than constant downtime, internal server errors and general slow loading. Hopefully we don't have the same issues with this company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rynny Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 1 hour ago, David said: Just to let you know if you are seeing this post you are on the new server. I wasn't expecting us to come back online as quick, would have been quicker had it not been for our old hosts crap setup. A couple of you sneaked on and posted when an old backup was restored due to errors on the most recent, that has been fixed now and those posts have been lost in the internet. I have yet another software update to install but I will leave that for a few days. Let me know what the speeds are like, if you have any issues etc. still have a couple more things to apply to the server that will speed things up even more hopefully. Just want to see what it's like without those applied. Definitely running better. No issues so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted June 17, 2016 Author Share Posted June 17, 2016 We are now using a CDN, I'll try and keep it simple. The big files that make up the forum are now being distributed from servers around the world, which ever you are closer to you will receive from, so all you immigrants over in America or down under should hopefully see a speed increase as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiddingsRam Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 Good work @David , thanks for keeping us all in the loop ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ketteringram Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 4 hours ago, Shang said: I've noticed the website is a lot snappier than before. As always cheers for your work! Same here. Better than ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boycie Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 5 hours ago, David said: We are now using a CDN, I'll try and keep it simple. The big files that make up the forum are now being distributed from servers around the world, which ever you are closer to you will receive from, so all you immigrants over in America or down under should hopefully see a speed increase as well. Them servers in Mexico are bloody lovely. They make the servers in the uk look like steam engines. Init Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted June 17, 2016 Author Share Posted June 17, 2016 Think I preferred it on here before I told you how to get back on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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