Hey everyone, when I've been able to I have been working diligently on solving our growing out of our current website host problem. I you haven't seen the thread about this issue that I started, please see this I’ve got Good News and bit of Bad News… from last week.
So anyways, I think I might have found us a new home. Its our own private space inside a server that is dedicated to growing and very busy websites like automaticwasher.org. I've created our website on the new server, it is a copy of our live site as of yesterday afternoon. When you click over to the test site please be aware of the following things:
#1 For upgraded users, the wash/rinse/spin buttons do not work over there. I believe they will not work with an IP address for an URL address.
#2 Please be careful to notice which site you are posting on, our LIVE site will have the usual address starting with http://www.automaticwasher.org in your address bar. The TEST site will have an address starting with http://174.121.188.189/~automa7/. The test site also has <span style="text-decoration: none; color: blue; font: 10pt Arial,sans-serif;"><strong>TEST SITE</span></strong> written on the navigation as seen in the image below.
So go ahead check out the new site (you get there from the link right below), you will have to log-in again then post things, upload pictures, play to your hearts content over there. Nothing that is typed over there will be saved, I'll wipe it out and take a fresh copy when its necessary and before we go turn on the site for good. Let me know how it works, reading the threads seems to go faster for me, but uploading pictures seems slightly slower. Of course I'm most concerned with the speed that the threads are downloaded. Thank everyone, I'm going to try to make this transition with as little stress for everyone as possible, but there will be some issues, aw.org is growing up.
So anyways, I think I might have found us a new home. Its our own private space inside a server that is dedicated to growing and very busy websites like automaticwasher.org. I've created our website on the new server, it is a copy of our live site as of yesterday afternoon. When you click over to the test site please be aware of the following things:
#1 For upgraded users, the wash/rinse/spin buttons do not work over there. I believe they will not work with an IP address for an URL address.
#2 Please be careful to notice which site you are posting on, our LIVE site will have the usual address starting with http://www.automaticwasher.org in your address bar. The TEST site will have an address starting with http://174.121.188.189/~automa7/. The test site also has <span style="text-decoration: none; color: blue; font: 10pt Arial,sans-serif;"><strong>TEST SITE</span></strong> written on the navigation as seen in the image below.
So go ahead check out the new site (you get there from the link right below), you will have to log-in again then post things, upload pictures, play to your hearts content over there. Nothing that is typed over there will be saved, I'll wipe it out and take a fresh copy when its necessary and before we go turn on the site for good. Let me know how it works, reading the threads seems to go faster for me, but uploading pictures seems slightly slower. Of course I'm most concerned with the speed that the threads are downloaded. Thank everyone, I'm going to try to make this transition with as little stress for everyone as possible, but there will be some issues, aw.org is growing up.
