RWL is moving hosts

Peace Alliance · February 14, 2012, 04:08:49 PM

Today I purchased server space with a new hosting company. So our servers will now be with A Small Orange.

The domain name for the website (redwallwarlords.com) will be changed to point to our new servers. So that means there will be some downtime in the next 7 days as it gets transferred.

So expect that within the next week RWL will be down for anywhere between a few hours, to a day.

It's for the best though, because the new host will most likely be way better. Also, they have more up-to-date technology, so we will be able to set things up so that your forum account logs you into the games (no more signing into reg and turbo, just 1 sign in on the forums).

We are also going to update the forums while we're at it. You may not notice much of a change except that we will lose our forum theme, and things will feel generally slicker.

Yay!

Raggon · February 14, 2012, 04:11:05 PM

Wow. Did not see that coming. What domain name will it change to?

cloud · February 14, 2012, 04:13:05 PM

Quote from: Raggon on February 14, 2012, 04:11:05 PM
Wow. Did not see that coming. What domain name will it change to?

PA just said the domain name is going to transfer so it shouldn't change...

Raggon · February 14, 2012, 04:17:01 PM

*feels stupid* :-[

Firetooth · February 14, 2012, 04:19:35 PM

Congrats. I know how much trouble you've had with Bluehost and hopefully this will let you implement global accounts. :)

Neobaron · February 14, 2012, 04:26:10 PM

Quoteso we will be able to set things up so that your forum account logs you into the games (no more signing into reg and turbo, just 1 sign in on the forums).

What does this have to do with global accounts?

Firetooth · February 14, 2012, 04:42:20 PM

Quote from: Neobaron on February 14, 2012, 04:26:10 PM
Quoteso we will be able to set things up so that your forum account logs you into the games (no more signing into reg and turbo, just 1 sign in on the forums).

What does this have to do with global accounts?

If you're talking to me, in another thread Peace said they could make global accounts when they switched server, which was what I was actually referring to.

Though that pretty much sounds like global accounts/global logins to me, anyway?

Neobaron · February 14, 2012, 04:45:32 PM

No, I was asking peace. :)

I don't see how universal login is tied to our host is all.

I am trying to learn a thing.

Firetooth · February 14, 2012, 04:48:47 PM

Ah I see. The fact my post was last before yours made me assume. :-[

Neobaron · February 14, 2012, 04:50:52 PM

[unfunnyregurgitation]Obligatory "you know what happens when you assume" comment. [/unfunnyregurgitation]

Peace Alliance · February 14, 2012, 05:01:49 PM

windy set things up so that the SMF forum login can be used instead of our own game logins. It worked on his server and the A Small Orange servers (that's the new host), but not on Bluehost because some of their software is out of date. It's all highly technical, and requires a wizard such as windhounds to understand.

I should also mention that this move is going to mean we are upgrading to SMF 2.0, which means the forums will be more up-to-date and we'll have to go a short time before we have our own forum theme again. Other then that we won't lose any forum info like our posts or accounts or anything.

Neobaron · February 14, 2012, 05:08:18 PM

QuoteIt's all highly technical, and requires a wizard such as windhounds to understand.

I'll ask windy.

Peace Alliance · February 14, 2012, 05:18:21 PM

You'll ask windy to make you a wizard? Good luck, I've been asking for years.

Neobaron · February 14, 2012, 05:24:30 PM

I'll ask windy for the details. I am curious if this is a coding thing for RWL or if you are using a network service to tie the accounts. Since you seem to indicate that the out of date software is the reason why the people who code RWL can't tie the accounts, it sounds like the latter to me.

One is within the bounds of my education and it would be interesting to see how it works.

The other I don't really care about.

windhound · February 14, 2012, 06:56:34 PM

lolNeo

Its something to do with the version of PHP and the various options that Bluehost chose to run with. (seriously, if you've never looked at a php.ini do so. sooo many flags). I could probably figure out what the issue is by diff'ing the two php.ini files, but it was time to move anyhow. Bluehost is a cheap hosting option, and the downtime we've experience clearly reflects this. heh.

The new host, ASO, is running a Redhat base server so it matches what I'm running on my home server (Fedora 14).
What would run smoothly on my home test server and ASO just dies on bluehost.