The current hosting provider for Sir-Toby.Com is terminating their service at the end of this year, just a few days from now. I am currently investigating NearlyFreeSpeech.NET as an alternative hosting provider. Barring any unusual problems, this migration should be completed within the next day. Sir-Toby.Com will be taken down for a few hours while this migration is happening.
I will post updates to this thread when I have more information.
Migrating Sir-Toby.Com to New Hosting Provider, 2015 Edition
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All of my initial tests look good. I plan to proceed with the migration starting around 6:30 PM PST (UTC -0700) on December 29th, just over four hours from now. When I start, all of Sir-Toby.Com will be taken down and replaced with a "under maintenance" page. I'm guessing it will take about an hour to migrate my database data over to my new host. Once everything appears to be working, I will update my DNS entries. When you no longer see the "under maintenance" page, you will be looking at Sir-Toby.Com at its new home. I will post again in this thread when everything is complete.
The only issue I have noticed on the new host is that the server time zone is set to UTC. Extend-A-Story has no time zone handling, so all future time stamps on episodes will be in UTC, rather than Pacific Time.
The only issue I have noticed on the new host is that the server time zone is set to UTC. Extend-A-Story has no time zone handling, so all future time stamps on episodes will be in UTC, rather than Pacific Time.
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I have completed the migration. You are reading this message on Sir-Toby.Com's new host.
There is one additional change that everyone should be aware of. Email notifications from Sir-Toby.Com will now come from "webmaster@sir-toby.com" rather than "sir-toby@sir-toby.com". If notifications from Sir-Toby.Com are being sent to your spam folder, be sure to add this new address to your address book.
I will keep an eye on things to make sure everything is working. If you see anything out of place, please let me know.
Thanks!
There is one additional change that everyone should be aware of. Email notifications from Sir-Toby.Com will now come from "webmaster@sir-toby.com" rather than "sir-toby@sir-toby.com". If notifications from Sir-Toby.Com are being sent to your spam folder, be sure to add this new address to your address book.
I will keep an eye on things to make sure everything is working. If you see anything out of place, please let me know.
Thanks!
Are you sure about that? When I received a notification of your most recent post to this thread - presumably made after the change - it appeared to come from "sir-toby@sir-toby.com".Sir Toby wrote:...There is one additional change that everyone should be aware of. Email notifications from Sir-Toby.Com will now come from "webmaster@sir-toby.com" rather than "sir-toby@sir-toby.com"...
JH
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Thank you for letting me know. I may have overlooked something. I've applied the change again. Hopefully the notification for this message will use the correct email address. Let me know if it does.JH wrote:Are you sure about that? When I received a notification of your most recent post to this thread - presumably made after the change - it appeared to come from "sir-toby@sir-toby.com".Sir Toby wrote:...There is one additional change that everyone should be aware of. Email notifications from Sir-Toby.Com will now come from "webmaster@sir-toby.com" rather than "sir-toby@sir-toby.com"...
Thanks!