I know we’ve had a big change recently but there are more to come. These hopefully won’t affect you very much but I need to do make them and fairly soon. The changes are:
Forum Move
This is to move the forum to a different server. Don’t worry, it will still look the same afterwards, it’s just the hardware it’s running on will change.
The forum is currently running on a cloud server which was the quickest way to get it migrated. I’ve now had time to rebuild one of my existing servers to properly support the Docker container environment that the forum uses so to save some money it makes more sense to move the forum to the other bigger server and get rid of cloud server.
This will need some downtime. I need to shut the forum down, make a backup, move the backup to other server and restore it. This will probably take about an hour if all goes well. I need to prepare the new container home to receive the forum so I’m guessing that the move will happen tomorrow (Wednesday 22nd March).
Email Delivery Route Change
Once I’ve moved the forum to the other server I will change the email delivery service that I use. The current one has been working OK but I’ve found another one that is cheaper. As the new forum generates more emails this is going to save me some money too. Whilst the new service is cheaper it gets good reviews and is from a well known supplier so hopefully the level of service will be just as good.
Hopefully you won’t notice this change unless you’re in the habit of reading email headers or checking email logs. This change will probably happen on Thursday or Friday of this week.