07-11-2016, 08:18 AM
VK5PJ Wrote:Have the hosting company given you any idea when you can resume the hosted option as I get the feeling no one is committing to posting content while the forum is in limbo.
In that same vein if the outlook is not going to improve I believe people will pull up stakes and go.
Peter
The forum will continue for a long time regardless of where it is hosted. VKLogger went through a multitude of hostings before it ended up where it is and most of the time that hosting is transparent to the end user. You really only know because I noted it on the forum post you quoted back at me.
I was informed over this last weekend that the software update was performed on the external web server on Friday last week so that I can now activate it there once again. I have to update the forum database plus avatars etc to it to get it synced with the local server and that should happen later today. We should know fairly quickly if the Error 508 - Resources Limit Exceeded message re-appears.
I have been looking at an alternative forum package but need to make sure all existing content will transfer without issues before I will replace the existing PHPBB system. Fortunately I don't have to do testing on it on-line and thus affect the main forum. Any replacement will look different and work a bit differently but I don't want to change the character of the forum any more than I have to.
73 Doug VK4ADC
POSTSCRIPT:
The forum has been returned to the external web server as of about 10AM today, 7th Nov 2016.