So, the server move appears to have gone smoothly. This current URL is temporary while the sciforums.com domain gets transferred (usually takes a few days for the changes to propogate), but in the meantime http://phi.asmallorange.com/~porfiry/ works fine.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this web host is less duplicitous and actively hostile to the community than our <a href="http://www.pair.com/">last one</a>.

W00t!!!!!

Hee hee.
I'm the first back too.
Sweet.

Thanks for the message on the front page, Porf. Much appreciated.


God, this place looks fine.

Good job Dave - well done. And many thanks.

Got to expect a few teething troubles though, so I hope we will all be patient until things settle down. But so far it all looks the same.

Whew. I was really starting to miss this.

Hey. I just noticed the missing forum. Your software forums are gone. Do you have them somewhere else or did you get rid of them?

Those forums were taken out last winter.

lol

This is great! :)
Thanks, Porfiry and all who donated!

Welcome back, sorry to hear about the idiots who ran the previous servers.

Thanks a lot David,
Great effort maintaining Sciforums and great skills at self-defense!

Thanks a lot Dave. I know people bitch at you all the time, but I have to say thanks for the effort.

Whew.
Anyone else getting some serious lag? Site's been running smooth until now.
Taking a minute or more to load pages sometimes.

Whew.
Anyone else getting some serious lag? Site's been running smooth until now.
Taking a minute or more to load pages sometimes.

I HATE to say that I have to agree with invert, but I have been experiencing the same thing.

Thanks Dave. Your efforts are sincerely appreciated by more than would admit it I suspect. You should put a donate button back up though for your own potential prosperity. :)

Glad to see everything went back up okay. And speaking of the old host, I was looking for some online customer service section where I could complain to them in a foreign language. Is there one?

Just a heads up.
The lag probably lasted about 15 to 20 minutes or so. From 9:10 to 9:30. Approximately. It might have lasted as long as til 9:45 or so. And then it started going smooth again.

On occasion I get hit with lag loading a page. But nothing as consistent as that brief period of time.


I have a question about all the weird little things about the site after the first crash. Are they going to get fixed? For instance, when not loggd in, you can't go back many pages in a lot of the forums. I assume this would count for google spiders too which would limit the search capabilities for this site.

Also, logging out has a problem. When you click log out, you have to go through an extra page saying there was an error. I think the new page has a user id number added to the regular logout procedure or something. I forget. I notice that if you delete all cookies before logging out, you don't have the problem, but only for one log out. The next time it's fucked again.

There might be more as well.
That's all I can remember at this late hour.

The lag probably lasted about 15 to 20 minutes or so. From 9:10 to 9:30. Approximately. It might have lasted as long as til 9:45 or so. And then it started going smooth again.

1) We're being hammered pretty aggressively by some search spiders - I'm willing to tolerate this since the site needs to be indexed.
2) We're on a shared server - there will be some variance in load times based on server load - there's nothing I can do.
3) The site is now physically located in Texas, rather than New England - this may have an effect on network latency.

Thanks for the rapid response, Porf. Appreciated.
Note. I'm not complaining. The old server had it's laggy days too. And as long as I don't have to see that damned "Slight problem with the Database" any time soon, I'll be happy.
I'm just giving some feedback is all. Trying to see if I can't help things run as smoothly as possible.


Also. On the subject of improvements and whatnot.
Well. I think this might be a touchy subject, but with your software forums gone (which, by the way, I was sure I saw after last winter. Maybe they were still here but just locked down?)
Anyway.
There's a word.
The one word that's censored on this site that always confuses the hell out of people.
I happen to think I know why it's censored and with the software forums gone I should think that the need for censoring it is over.
I suppose that it could remain and be that one really weird thing that people bump into from time to time and go, "Huh?!" BUt. You know. Maybe you might think of letting it go now.

I was actually inspired to try to write a poem about it. But... I'm no poet and you might want to ease the censorship just to prevent me from trying it.... Sort of a threat, I guess. "Nobody move or the nigger get's it!!" (Blazing Saddles. Sorry. It's late and I'm a little loopy.)

********.

Just something to consider.

You should definitely write the poem.

Phpbb2. ;)

Paypal button?

Heyho!
We're back to Sciforums.com. No more asmallorange. Woot!
I have this feeling that that was effecting the way google was able to cache the site. I know I've been having problems searching the site from google.

Another problem might be the problem with some of the forums where only a limited number of pages of past threads is available to be viewed by guests (which I assume include google spiders and whatnot.) For instance, the philosophy forum has only 4 pages of history to a guest user.

Hmmm.
Not that's weird.
I was on a different machine all weekend and on this other machine the address showed as sciforums and all my bookmarks that point directly to sciforums addresses worked...
But. Now, back on my home box, it's phi.asmallorange.com/~porfiry/ again.
Why?
I tried clearing out my cache (I didn't see why that would matter but...) and it didn't work.
Hell. It does the same on both browsers (IE and Firefox) on this box. I can fire up my laptop and it's sciforums.com. But here it's asmallorange.

What's the deal?

When I use a link that I have bookmarked to my user profile:
http://www.sciforums.com/member.php?u=15278
It shows that the last time I logged in was: Last Activity: 07-27-05 01:01 AM
But. I click the same link on my laptop and it sends me to the right page...

What's going on here?
How many here are seeing sciforums.com and how many are seeing asmallorange.com?


Edit:
Wait.
I know.
I forgot that I edited my Hosts file to the ip address for sciforums. I bet that's what's going on.
Let me find it and see.

Sorry. Never seen a small orange. Just one computer here though. What do you think is happening?

That's exactly what happened. I edited my hosts file a while back to skip the dns lookup time for Sciforums and I completely forgot about it. It was going back to the old ip address: 66.39.35.200
Where there still exists, apparently, a phantom sciforums that is frozen in time before the last database crash... You'd think you'd get the old something wrong with the database error but it doesn't.

Here's the new ip address if anyone's interested.
70.85.173.18/~porfiry/

Edit:

Oh. The base ip address redirects to phi.asmallorange.com/~porfiry which is the address I've seen since the changeover. To find the phantom, you need to do something like 66.39.35.200/member.php?u=15278.

Kind of spooky. Sciforums lost in time, or an episode of the "Outer Limits."