test for me please!

[Martin Grimmer]

Rob,

have tried the link to original site and then refreshed – no different to before – still refers back to UKSB.net link.

Martin

[Martin Armitage]

Tried the link, refreshed bought me back to here

[magpie]

Hit the link, refreshed, no change.

[Bob @ Prestige]

Hit the link

Brought me to here 😀

[storeinet]

Rob

I’m now getting the full site on https://www.uksignboards.com

So the dns i use has been updated.

Dan

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[Chris Wool]

every time i refresh by clicking on latest posts it logs me out.

i know when iam not wanted

chris

[Adrian Howard]

i keep getting logged out also……..

[Adrian Hewson]

We get straight into https://www.uksignboards.com nor redirect message but dont lnow if its new or old server

REgards ADrian

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[Richard Urquhart]

worked fine for me

[Bill Dewison]

Still not working here Robert 😕 Have to go through the .net for it to work.

Cheers, Dewi

[Carrie Brown]

I still get the link to come back here 😀

[Lee Jones]

Earlier in the day i was being thrown off all over the place, and having to log in repeatedly, gave up for a while and went off to do some work and now everything seams to be working just fine, including all links.

[Robert Lambie]

thanks for all the feedback folks. i too was getting the errors and having to use the link on the holding page of the old server, but… just got home and logged in and everything is back to normal for me 😛 pheeewwww

anyway, i hope everyones getting slowly back to normal. they say it takes upto 48hrs in total.. so that makes it about 6am tommorrow for things to be completely back to normal, because it was about 5;30am yesterday morning we finished the server switch. so fingers crossed now. 😉

[Mark Shipley]

Yup all back to normal :dance2: :wave3: :dance2: :wave3: :dance2:

Good job Rob !!!

Mark

[Peter Normington]

Hi Rob
Keep having to log in anybody else having this problem?
Peter

[Andy Gorman]

I noticed earlier that ‘it’ asked me to login even though my user name was in the online users list. Oooer, strange.

[Robert Lambie]

i think its because it may not be activated in your area mate. are you visiting the site using uksb.net or can you now visit using uksignboards.com?
if you get the closed homepage with the link to uksb.net then the doamin isnt yet active were you are & that is the problem of it logging you out.
maybe try hitting the refresh button a few times on pages or clear out your cache files as they maybe looking at old pages.

hope this helps

[Bill Dewison]

Well, the .com is working here 😀 I was starting to get withdrawls, that .net address gave me the eeby jeebies! 😮

Great to see the new server online Robert, its certainly sped things up a little 😀 Look forward to seeing what you’ve got planned 😀

Cheers, Dewi

[Nicola McIntosh]

it’s really speedied up here rob!! 😛 but i could not get logged on at all last night, but it’s been worth the wait.. good luck with the new server and hope it all goes well!! 😛 😉 you must be looking a bit like this tonight rob :sleep: :sleep: :sleep:

nik

[Carrie Brown]

I must be at the bottom of the list, still have to use .net 😀 Hope Im not this low down on Santas list, he might forget me or run out of time 😮

:dance4:

[Adrian Howard]

Well i am still on .net it seems to be moving from North to South
maybe by later today Dorset will be on the new server…………..

[Paul Rollason]

Everything A OK in sunny funny falmouth

Paul R(Mackerelbus Design)

[Alan Drury]

Still at .net here at the Essex – Cambridge border
Alan

[Carrie Brown]

Im still at .net this morning aswell 😀

[Paul Goodwin]

Wow it’s faster than a fast thing going very fast in a fast place

well done Rob you earn’t your Breazer tonight 😀

[James kelly]

quote :

i think its because it may not be activated in your area mate

This is a new one to me. 😕
Surely once a server has been activated it should be accessable to all?

I would suspect it is compatibility issues between operating systems on servers. Some transferred files would need their property modes set again to read/write (chmod 777) etc.

I myself can only access the threads through the ‘latest posts’ but not via the normal menu. Keep having to log-in every time too.

Changing server isn’t always easy and takes time, patience and a lot of coffee! 🙂

[Robert Lambie]

hi jsk your right mate its not easy, this is about our 6th server change now, but this time we shouldnt need to move again. we got the mother ship! :lol1:

my home comp is running brill and the domain has obviously kicked in, but less than a mile away at work, im still on old .net.
very frustrating as its suppossed to last no longer than 48hrs 😕
at least its getting there now i suppose, even if a bitter slower than first thought 😉

[Bill Dewison]

quote JSK:

Some transferred files would need their property modes set again to read/write (chmod 777) etc.

Ewwww Unix, lots of codes that only make sense to college professors :lol1: Only joking, haven’t a clue what I’m on about as usual 😉

At least everything is up and running again though, and blimey, its quick!

Cheers, Dewi

[Adrian Howard]

(hot) now up and running…………………………

[John Childs]

Still on .net.

And the auto log-in doesn’t work. I have to enter user name and password every time.

[storeinet]

John

Your auto logging won’t work on uksb.net as the cookie is set for uksignboards.com

I was getting on the new server but now i’m back on the .net seems as if not all the dns servers around the globe have updated yet.

Dan

[magpie]

still .net here

[Chris Wool]

still .net on bt connect & logon probs but expect it will get round to the westcountry some day

chris

[Nigel Pugh]

😛 Normal service has been resumed here in Tamworth, Staffs.

No more .net ………..bad bad .net………it just was’nt the same

[magpie]

Doo do doo do….

well into the twilight zone, with no sign of normality on the horizon 😉

[Alan Drury]

Back to normal at the Essex – Cambridge border
Alan

[Robert Lambie]

ahh good, its now kicked in here at work too… took its time 😕 😉

[Administrator 2]

Hi all, little techy explanation.

Because there are so many web addresses each time you type one in if it’s http://www.google.com https://www.uksignboards.com or even http://www.microsoft.com you’re computer has to find out where it needs to send the request for that page.

The people that provide your internet connection provide a service to your computer to resolve the name into an address that the computer can use (an IP address)

If every time you asked for a site the request had to be passed directly to the server that has the lists of all the names on it would cost the ISP a lot of money for them to have enough capacity for all that traffic, so they keep a copy of the records that people ask for so that if it’s needed again by any of thier customers they already have it. This makes it faster for you, and cheaper for them.

Each site has a central record that has the list of where the names that are part of that site resolve to, and that record also contains the maxinum length of time that it should be kept localy for (since some records change more often than others so for some purposes you need to shorten this time) So when your ISP’s server requests a copy of the list it notes down the time that it got it, and when the amount of time has passed it deletes that record from it’s local storage.

The reason that it varies so much from one persons computer to the next how long it can take is because some ISP’s have more than one layer of this request passing, for example there might be a server that does name resolution for your local area, and all of the local ones join up and are feed by a main one that your ISP owns. In addition your ISP might then be passing the requests to yet another server again and so on allong the chain untill eventually the request reaches either someone who knows the answer, or reaches the end of the chain.

The general length of time that records are set to be cached for (held as a local copy by a server) is about 12 hours, and the length of time it takes for a change to reach you all depends on how many links there are between you and the server, and when each of the links in that chain will expire the copy they are holding and ask the next server along for a new copy.

Some people will by chance get a new one almost imediatly, and others can take a lot longer. 48 hrs, is generally a number that’s wheeled out to say how long it’s going to take for this process to take, but as always there is a probability that you’ll get the thick end of the wedge and not see the changes come through for a length of time longer than that.

But the longer you’ve had to wait the better the chance that it’ll be sorted soon 🙂

Just thought you might be interested to know what was happening, if not I hope you didn’t read all that in the hope that I would say something interesting 😉

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[Chris Wool]

rob knew that really 😉 tis proper down here thank ye

chris

[magpie]

Thanks for that d-Ark A.

Lucky me still has the thick end of the wedge 😥

[magpie]

Rob/d-ark angel I’m still on the cursed .net here is it possible there is something my end preventing the update?

[Steve Coyle]

I onder if anyone has the same problem as me. When I’m in a forum, and have finished reading a post, when I click the ” back” button on the browser, The whole thing disappears bringing me back to my desktop. This only happens on the sign boards, every other site works fine

[Robert Lambie]

quote Orville:

I onder if anyone has the same problem as me. When I’m in a forum, and have finished reading a post, when I click the ” back” button on the browser, The whole thing disappears bringing me back to my desktop. This only happens on the sign boards, every other site works fine

ive never had this problem mate… could it be history/cache problem? i dont know, ill ask, but its a new one on me.

pete, are you still getting old login page from olde server mate?

anyone else getting errors since server change, please say, it gives me somthing to go on as we are working on the site again tommorrow night.

thanks in advance 😀

[Peter Normington]

still got .net had .com lost it.
Peter

[Robert Lambie]

hi peter
ive heard that a few times now mate, it even happend to me at work. it does come back though.
strange thing is… the old server should have closed down by now?
infact, it was due to close last wednesday? 😕
i think i better give them a call… 😉

anyway… hope the .com kickcs back in for you mate.

[Jill Marie Welsh]

Ever since last week, sometimes I get the redirect message
while other times I get the regular site.
it’s confusing, but I can deal with it.
Love….jill

[magpie]

Hi Rob, yep I’m still having to redirect to the .net site.

Hope it sorts itself soon. 🙁

[magpie]

😛 😛 😛 😛 😛 😛 😛 😛 😛 😛 😛 😛 😛 😛
Thank the lord, I’m back in the Kingdom of .COM

[Carrie Brown]

Welcome home Pete …. we knew one day in the not so far future you would return to the boosom of our hearts 😮

Carrie … being a drama princess!!

[magpie]

thankie koindly yor royal eyenesship (doff cap, tugs fetlock an’ all that malarky)

Pete…being a ham am-dram type personage 😉

[Robert Lambie]

:lol1: :lol1: great mate… hoepfully any others with the .net prob will be sorted too 😉

[Nigel Pugh]

This has to be one of the best threads ever……..the drama, suspense, would the evil .net get away with it’s cunning plan or would super agent .com come to the rescue and save Robs bacon / breezer.

With the final twist of Pete and would he finally be able to reach the land of.com or be stuck forever in the twilight zone of .net

Cannot wait for the Jonathan Woss weview.

😀 😀 😀 😀

[magpie]

I hope the syndication deal is up to scratch, then I can just watch the royalties roll in 😎

[Robert Lambie]

quote Jobe:

This has to be one of the best threads ever……..the drama, suspense, would the evil .net get away with it’s cunning plan or would super agent .com come to the rescue and save Robs bacon / breezer.

With the final twist of Pete and would he finally be able to reach the land of.com or be stuck forever in the twilight zone of .net

Cannot wait for the Jonathan Woss weview.

😀 😀 😀 😀

jobe definately becoming a board addict, first signs of losing his mind is showing 😉 :lol1:

my name is jobe and ive been addicted to the boards for 6 months now,
ive given up the will to work, my job is on the line. my online access is clocking up a fortune on my credit cards to feed my addiction. :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: sorry mate… at least your not online till 3am like me 😮

see you at the next meet 😉

[storeinet]

A cure for some.

When i try to go to http://www.uksignboards.co.uk i get the redirect page

but when i try https://www.uksignboards.com i get the new server.

Rob have you changed the DNS for .co.uk?

All the best

Dan

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[Stephen Morriss]

I’m still having problems with the signdoards.com
If I connect via my payg dialup I get the site but if I connect via my freedial connection I get the redirect page.
Checked with my isp as I thought it may be at my end and he’s looked it up and said the name servers and the MX records are a bit mixed up, but that it looked like it was being worked on as the nameservers had been renewed on the 12th.

Steve

[Nigel Pugh]

Just been testing the water Rob and now I have a identified a fair amount of crazies on the boards that I’m starting to feel at home.

Just for the record Debee is still on the .net but then again she is kicking back in France and reading every post I make as my email will bear out.
😛 😛

[Carrie Brown]

:lol1: Yep Jobes been bit by the uksb nutty bug!!! ….. Dewi I told you not to bite him 😉

Carrie … I will be the last sane one standing!!! 😛

[Bill Dewison]

quote Carrie:

I will be the last sane one standing!!! 😛

Yep, standing in the corner with the straight jacket on :lol1:

Jobe, we’re really not that nutty, I’m actually quite sensible! Its that Carrie you have to watch out for! Word of warning…. don’t leave any carrots out for the reindeer this year! 😕

Cheers, Dewi

[Carrie Brown]

:lol1: His carrots are safe around me its a donkey that eats butterflies he needs to watch out for 😮 You can leave the carrot out Jobe, not really into raw unless its grated, I prefer steamed!!

Carrie 😀

[Nigel Pugh]

I was going to reply to both of you Carrie n Dewi but thought better of it as Rob would have been proven right, addicted me never.

” Hello reception, cancel all calls I’m busy for the rest of the week”

So there you go, I have not replied and so not addicted. 😮

[Bill Dewison]

Wise move, its the replies that get you mate! (grab)

Carrie n Dewi? Nah, Puss & Donkey! :lol1: Still have to find a nominee for Shrek though 😕

Cheers, Dewi

[Peter Normington]

Just realised not only am I still .net, but all the signature quotes have gone walkabout!
Peter

[Mike Grant]

Yep I’m going around in circles, I can only log on by clicking the last 24 hours doodah dangler. 🙁 😕 😮

[Robert Lambie]

i think it maybe to do with the .co.uk still pointing at the old server. the thing is. the old server should have closed down by now!
anyway. ive emailed them telling them im not renewing with them so they should take it off air. ill also have the .co.uk re-pointed to .com

boy is this the slowest/roughest server change to date 😕
anyway… im sure the new stuff will make everyone happy once its all done.
slugging my guts out in the background here :lol1: :lol1:

[Nigel Pugh]

If I knew how the quote thingy worked then it would be here.

Rob you said “see you at the next meet”

Whoa hang on a mo, firstly three things.

1. when

2. where

3. will alcohol be available in mind numbingly quantities.

[Robert Lambie]

your online, im online.. its late,,, we ARE addicts 😮

[Mike Grant]

Rob, another problem I have is that I can’t see any pictures anymore, the avatars are ok but any attached pics have dissapeared into cyberspace!

😮 🙁 😥

[Robert Lambie]

hi mike
i could be wrong…
but im pretty sure you can’t be logged in when veiwing posts with images mate.
try logging in and then go to “show us your stuff” forum and see if it has helped any…

let me know if iits still not working?

cheers mate 😀

[Simon Clayton]

That’s what i found.. took ages to work out i wasn’t logged on!!
When will we be able to stay logged on Rob, keep forgetting to log on, getting to be a pain

Cheers

Simon