RWO site issues, disruptions, suggestions, announcements

[lwjoyner]

first time in 3 days i could connect. maybe we need to close site until its all ok.

[Blood Fever]

Yes. Greatly appreciated, Danzar!!

+1

[KSAS]

Big thanks from me too Danzar

[707]

I get a lot of enjoyment out of this site, happy to contribute if it can be saved

[neilfws]

Hi everyone, we're back up. Took the site down to upgrade the server space. You should now see more regular uptime and stability, but please don't count out intermittent issues and slow response times until the migration is done. Timeframe for that could be a couple of months.

Very much appreciated, seems more responsive already!

[Thunder Shaker]

I need to know the technical details because I may be able to help with that. The aim is to get a working test configuration running, with the old content ported, so the site can make the transition as smooth as possible. To help with that, I need the technical details so I can offer advice and assistance as needed.

[BRS328]

Thank you Danzar.
You are doing a great job and it is very much appreciated by me and many others

[rojo]

Thanks so much Danzer. May all be going well with your new and exciting 'life changes'!

[MattW]

Good on you, Danzar; thanks very much for the effort!

[Hotpotato]

Seeing as it’s a voluntary Gig and a labour of love, we are v grateful for all yr time, $$ , and efforts .
Thank you Dan .

[Goal Sneak]

Thanks Danzar, much appreciated

[Danzar]

No thanks please. I've completely stuffed it up and haven't put enough effort in like my predecessors did. We'll get there though. Bear with me. A few more things to do.

[Danzar]

I need to know the technical details because I may be able to help with that. The aim is to get a working test configuration running, with the old content ported, so the site can make the transition as smooth as possible. To help with that, I need the technical details so I can offer advice and assistance as needed.

Hi TS, RWO is run on a hosted VPS linux server, Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS.

We are currently on VBulletin4. Would need to upgrade to latest version of VB6. It's compatible with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

My guess is we would need to:
Take an image of the RWO database
Set up VB6
Update Ubuntu on the server
Migrate
Test
Update all plugins
Test

It's interesting that we currently have (8547 Viewing). That's a lot of bots contributing to the server load. We'll be able to address it in the migration, but wow

[Thunder Shaker]

VBulletin has a forum where similar upgrade questions have been asked.

Example from August 2023: Can I upgrade from 4.25 to vB6?. That thread has a reply referencing this VBulletin sticky thread: Quick Overview: Upgrading vBulletin. This provide some detailed steps on how to perform an upgrade.

[Thunder Shaker]

Additional information from my links I posted previously, in response to this:

I'm absolutely happy to fund this, including an hourly rate for the time you invest in the migration.

One of the threads I posted had this:

If you have (VBulletin) do it, the cost is currently $149.00 each time.

I assume this is US dollars.

That sets an upper limit to the cost of the upgrade.