Welcome Back! (Hosting Changes)

[bikehikeskifish]

Hello Members and Guests!

www.vftt.org has been migrated to a newer, cheaper, and faster hosting company, located much closer to the majority of you. As such, it should be noticeably faster. (A2 Hosting, if you are curious, in Michigan)

I have also upgraded it to the final version of the software (vBulletin) available at version 4 (4.2.5) - there are no future versions, patches, or security updates - vBulletin 4 is end-of-life. This upgrade allows us to run PHP 7.2, which is fairly new, and still supported, and still receiving security updates.

I am planning to move off vBulletin and on to Xenforo, as a managed service. This will put all the management of the OS, PHP, Software, and Database under control of the hosting company so I don't have to

(DNS) Changes will take a little while to propagate around the internet, but if you are reading this, then you are seeing the new site!

I will make sure email / notifications are working shortly.

Tim

 

[Mohamed Ellozy]

Many thanks for your work managing this site!!!!

 

[peakbagger]

Thanks for keeping it running (and familiar for as long as you can)

 

[bikehikeskifish]

I can confirm email notifications are being sent.

Tim

 

[DayTrip]

It is much faster! Well done....

 

[skiguy]

Thanks for the upgrade and your effort doing so. Seems to be running well.

 

[wardsgirl]

Thanks for keeping us informed!

 

[Peakbagr]

Thanks, Tim, the guy behind the curtain.

 

[Grey J]

Thanks for doing this. I love VFTT.

 

[TEO]

Thank you, Tim!

 

[ChrisB]

Thank you, Tim!

From me as well. Snappy response now that DNS is saturated!

 

[MikePS]

Thank you, your work is greatly appreciated, I love this site and all I learn from it !

 

[TCD]

Thanks, Tim!

 

[blacknblue]

Hello Members and Guests!

www.vftt.org has been migrated to a newer, cheaper, and faster hosting company, located much closer to the majority of you. As such, it should be noticeably faster. (A2 Hosting, if you are curious, in Michigan)

I have also upgraded it to the final version of the software (vBulletin) available at version 4 (4.2.5) - there are no future versions, patches, or security updates - vBulletin 4 is end-of-life. This upgrade allows us to run PHP 7.2, which is fairly new, and still supported, and still receiving security updates.

I am planning to move off vBulletin and on to Xenforo, as a managed service. This will put all the management of the OS, PHP, Software, and Database under control of the hosting company so I don't have to

(DNS) Changes will take a little while to propagate around the internet, but if you are reading this, then you are seeing the new site!

I will make sure email / notifications are working shortly.

Tim

Pretty much didn't understand a thing you said.

BUT, thank you for the work you put in to keep the site running smoothly. (That much I do understand.)

 

[dug]

Best part of an upgrade is when nobody knows it happened. Well done Tim.

 

[sierra]

I didn't understand any of that, lol, but thanks for what you do.

 

[B the Hiker]

Thank you!

 

[DougPaul]

Thanks Tim!

Keeping a website going is a big job.

Doug