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Old 3rd Mar 2022, 1:57 pm   #21
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Default Re: Forum Closing for Server Move 02/03/2022

Here in Deutschland the transition wasn't at all noticeable. Everything is working as it should, just a tad faster. In the past I have suffered different outcomes when a similar transition has happened, so well done Paul!
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Old 3rd Mar 2022, 3:01 pm   #22
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Wouldn't know you had changed anything! All OK here at work and probably at home as well.
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A smooth changeover for me in that the forum works nicely and I dind't need to log in again but the appearance has changed (for me at least) to a very stripped down and basic look. Perhaps it's a setting or my browser (Firefox) which is to blame?
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No problems Downunder and noticeably faster, especially on clicking the 'Mark Forums Read' button.
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Old 4th Mar 2022, 7:43 am   #25
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Definitely faster, which is great, but the internal search feature (not the google search) is still not working well and does not seem to be fixing itself.
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Old 4th Mar 2022, 10:24 am   #26
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A smooth changeover for me in that the forum works nicely and I dind't need to log in again but the appearance has changed (for me at least) to a very stripped down and basic look. Perhaps it's a setting or my browser (Firefox) which is to blame?
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I've seen that many times (not on here but another similar vB site). You can try initially a full browser clean and disk clean. I think the reason is that the site pulls various templates from different sources and one is missing. You can also try clearing/flushing the DNS resolver cache.

Also changing DNS provider (dead easy in Windows) would probably provide a fix. Try the clean up first though.

A web search will show how to do any of those things easily.
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Thanks for your helpful tips - much appreciated - however this morning the site is back to its regular appearance without my doing anything. Happy days!

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Old 4th Mar 2022, 10:46 am   #28
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A smooth changeover for me in that the forum works nicely and I dind't need to log in again but the appearance has changed (for me at least) to a very stripped down and basic look. Perhaps it's a setting or my browser (Firefox) which is to blame?
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It's not loading the CSS file. That's something odd with your browser's cache.

Hold down Ctrl and press F5 to force Firefox to do a full page refresh.
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Old 4th Mar 2022, 10:54 am   #29
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It can happen when your broadband connection glitches for whatever reason.
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I had that display, curiously some time after the reopening not immediately. Clearing cookies for this site only cured it.
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Hi
I just noticed that the internal search is now working well.
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Old 4th Mar 2022, 6:05 pm   #32
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Yes, now hopefully fixed, see https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/...d.php?t=189139
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Old 8th Mar 2022, 7:56 pm   #33
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Occasionally I browse the forum using an old Mac. When I click on a link to the forum I'm told 'this connection is not private'.

I think some members had a similar issue late last year.
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Old 8th Mar 2022, 9:59 pm   #34
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That is probably an issue with an out of date and unsupported version of Safari on the old Mac, not correctly recognising modern SSLs. There is nothing I can do about that and nothing has changed with that aspect with the server move. All I can suggest is to try installing the latest supported version of Chrome or Firefox on the system and see if it helps.
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Old 9th Mar 2022, 7:27 pm   #35
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No glitches noted here; I guess you did the usual 'thing' of setting a DNS TTL of a-few-hundred-seconds a bit before the swapover. At least you're not fussed by the class of 'stiff' net-paranoid environments which see a sudden mid-session change of server-IP-address as a reason-to-revoke-credentials-and-block.
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Old 9th Mar 2022, 7:37 pm   #36
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Yes, I set the TTL to 3600 seconds (1 hour) for a few days before, then changed it to 600 seconds (10 minutes) the evening before. I updated the A records on the old server as soon as the move was done, and people were here quickly. The forum remained closed on the old server and was only reopened on the new one.

I also updated the domain nameservers with the domain registrar to suit the new hosting but takes up to 72 hours to propagate (regardless of TTL) so people would have been using the DNS on the old server to get here for up to a few days.

Overall it seems to have worked well and not upset anything that I'm aware of...
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Old 10th Mar 2022, 11:04 am   #37
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As the move was over a week ago and there have been no significant issues, I'll close this thread now.
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