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The time has come. We have reached the point where we need to upgrade the program that runs our site. Many thanks to "secret" testers who have been banging on the CHAT II site the past week or so. While there are some things that we don't fully like about it, in general, it seems to do what we need and it offers the security that should keep us safe from future hackers and virus attacks. Now, to make it really interesting, I am going to move us to a different host company this weekend... yes, AGAIN!!!! After tonight's long meeting with our company, I have no other choice but to leave them. They are unworthy of our hard earned money. They're nice people, but unable to fix their technical problems... so we must bid them adieu. I really don't like doing it this way, but I'm not going begin the upgrade and then "hope" that our host finally solves their problem...It's been three weeks and they are still unable to resolve the issue. Best guess... I may need to shut down as early as Friday evening. Then we'll move all 130 Megs of our files from Vancouver, Washington, to Vista, California. This could take 8-10 hours. Then once they are all there, we'll begin the conversion to the new program. That is estimated to take 8 hours. My target is to be back up and running either late Saturday night or on Sunday. Now you know what happened the last time that we changed hosting companies... arghhhhh!!!!! But let's hope that the second time is the charm. I'll post status at http://vcca.org/chat See you on the other side.
Bill Barker Previous VCCA CHAT Administrator (VCCA Member: 9802)
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Saturday Evening (well, okay, it's actually Sunday now) ---- We almost made it. It's been another "interesting" weekend. First the good news... - We moved our whole chat site to a new hosting company.
- The performance improvement is noticeable.
- The support from them has been very good.
And then there's the bad news... - Just when we were getting ready to start the conversion, I noticed that the database that they installed on our server, is one version too old.
- And when I asked them to upgrade it (at approx 9 pm Sat night), they regrettably informed me that the person who does that won't be in the office until Monday at 8 am.
So, that's when I decided to pull the stop-cord and figure out how to configure our old Chat site and get it working on this new host. This took me approximately 3 hours just to get old buggy back up and running. I'm not going to spend much time checking it out, so you may find an error or two that show up. I noticed a graphic that didn't display. But I'm going to bed now and you're welcome to pound away on it. I don't think that you can hurt it. Please don't prove me wrong... ha! See you tomorrow... er, rather later today.
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Okay, the old system is up for a while. You should be able to use it until I pull it down on Monday. Have fun.
Bill Barker Previous VCCA CHAT Administrator (VCCA Member: 9802)
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The conversion for tonight is ON!!! We successfully completed the database upgrade today (Monday). Say goodbye since the old Chat system will be taken offline sometime in the next 3 or 4 hours. I have a committment tomorrow afternoon and evening, so when the new CHAT II comes online, I won't have a lot of time to "shape" it. Don't get too ansy about what you see at first. Remember I wanted to do this so that I'd have the Thanksgiving weekend to work on it. Soooo... give me a week before you wack at it!! The question will be: - or -
Bill Barker Previous VCCA CHAT Administrator (VCCA Member: 9802)
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**** The Chatter site will go offline in 90 minutes. 11 pm PST. See you on the other side!!
Bill Barker Previous VCCA CHAT Administrator (VCCA Member: 9802)
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