Website Update

Kenadian

Staff member
Site Admin
Hello all,

Its taken a bit longer than I thought previously but we're now in the final stages of completing the move to our new ID.

The Blog has been updated with a serviceable version of the current B2O standard however a lot of work remains before blog or forum are considered final.

The "Servers" Link on the navigation bar now takes you to our Teamspeak 3 page. This will also change in the near future to include all Servers along with Banners for each.

I'm in the process of re-downloading all files/folders contained on the Web Server and will be backing up all database applications in triplicate (zip, gzipped, bzipped). Once done, our Webhost will assist with the physical move from Fragtard to BandofOthersGaming.

This could see the entire site (Blog and Forum) offline in your local area anywhere from a a few hours to a few days (DNS dependent).

The physical move will take place sometime mid-week either the first or second week in February 2015.

...fingers crossed everything goes according to plan.

Since I cannot button down an exact time this will serve as the only notice given, my apologies.

Thank you all for your patience and ongoing support!

Also, I'll be sitting out the next few weeks in iRacing as I complete items on my ToDo List so please relay the message to others who may be asking.

Thanks,

Ken
 

Kenadian

Staff member
Site Admin
There is some rudimentary test navigation setup on the Blog for your review.

If you hover over the "Forum" link you will see some dropdown menu options.

Can you please give these a quick once over and ensure they work to your satisfaction?

Again, these dropdown menu options are only available on the Blog currently so you must be there to access the menu options.
 
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ElektroVodka

Will do!

Anyway for the lowest downtime on the clients end i'd suggest adding googles dns servers.
DNS ip1: 8.8.8.8
DNS ip2: 8.8.4.4

Seeing this is added to the FAQ of many Web-hosts it's probably one of the fastest free DNS services out there.
The longest i had to wait for a redirect to go to the new IP was about an hour since i use that.

Before it could take several hours or even days.
 

Kenadian

Staff member
Site Admin
A few hiccups aside the switch-over went surprisingly well.

Fragtard.net has been forwarded to bandofothersgaming.com so all your bookmarks should automatically re-direct here.

Be advised though that site traffic will drop off sharply as we're de-indexed then re-indexed by Google.

Social Networking accounts are in the process of initial setup/configuration for those of you interested:

Facebook: (coming soon)
Steam: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/BandOfOther
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/bandofothers
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/Band_of_Others
YouTube: (unchanged) https://www.youtube.com/user/Fragtardnet

In the upcoming days, both Twitter and Facebook will be automatically populated via RSS Feedbot stripped from Forums and Blog.

Twitch will be setup initially but not used for streaming as I'll be informing those subscribed to my Fragtardnet Twitch Page we're moving.

I'd expect B2O Twitch to remain dormant during this process for a period of 4 - 6 weeks.
 
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Shilka

Hardcore
Well, I'm here :)

Can't imagine what a monster job this whole move must be behind the scenes, so here's an: Awesome work buddy!
I'll try to continue to spam up the forums a bit in the meantime, give those google bots something to do :p
 

little P

Super Mod
Nice job fearless leader. I get a headache at the thought of how much work this must be outside of your normal day job etc. Well done to you sir and as a reward I promise I will not take the piss out of Canada for a whole hour next time we are on TS. I know right, what a reward, don't thank me, you've earned it :p

Keep the coffee flowing bud
 
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ElektroVodka

That's the reason he's our Supreme leader, rumour has it he doesn't have a butthole, so the time he saves on having a dump can be used to do other things, like the monstrous task (it really can be) of transferring a domain and website;-)

Lets get popular!
 

Kenadian

Staff member
Site Admin
lol, thanks? :confused:

You should have heard me freaking out to tech support lol. I jumped the gun as it appeared as if DNS had propagated but the site was still not coming up nor was it accessible via ftp.

I put in an urgent tech support ticket for them to check I hadn't mucked something up and within minutes of hitting the submit ticket button, the site started working lol.

...and this is how things are handled behind closed doors. I ask tech support obvious questions that I also answer within the support tickets and they just smile and nod and never give me grief for it.

Even though I look like a complete nub to tech support they never once have made me feel so. They just continue to scratch my back probably rolling their eyes every time I open my mouth.

It's funny, one tech actually asked me what I was expecting to go wrong lol.

They make me laf, I love our Webhost.
 

Daunt

MLG Pro
Looking good so far Ken. Sorry I've been kinda mia... my schedule is all turned around now with working regular hours now... and being pretty busy with it... as you could tell my last job was super easy and slow so I could troll these forums allllll day.

Any chance of some bathurst tonight?
 

Kenadian

Staff member
Site Admin
Looking good so far Ken. Sorry I've been kinda mia... my schedule is all turned around now with working regular hours now... and being pretty busy with it... as you could tell my last job was super easy and slow so I could troll these forums allllll day.

Any chance of some bathurst tonight?
Ya I hear that, I totally understand what it's like to be inundated.

I'm not sure if I can make it tonight though as hoping to sell on of my T-Birds tonight.
 

Wapwap

Staff member
Admin
Even though I look like a complete nub to tech support they never once have made me feel so. They just continue to scratch my back probably rolling their eyes every time I open my mouth.
Each time they probably think "Ohh, the poor fella is Canadian. He can't help it."

Good job on the move d00kie ;)
 

Kenadian

Staff member
Site Admin
Please be advised that the likelihood of the Blog looking like complete @ss is quite high at this point in time.

I did not realize until today that the theme engine we run on our Blog (Thesis) has been completely re-written in v2.x and we're still on 1.8.

This means that none of the current styling will be transferable and will once again have to be re-stylized from the ground up. :eek:

It's increasingly clear that I drastically underestimated the work required for this re-branding to happen lol.

feck
 

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