We're moving!!!!!!!!!

Not yet developed a full plan for something happening in three days?

Think I’ll order some popcorn.

I guess if there isn't much of a plan it can't go that wrong.

I just wanted to be the first to mention GDPR!

Nothing will go wrong. Plans are for fools 😁. Nice Knowing you all.

I think you need to take another week before you do anything.

I'm serious. You haven't locked down the details, there's a lot of hoping and crossing of fingers and paperwork left to be done by the sounds of it and you're planning to do this in 3 days?

Does boards have a change control process, because as someone who oversees one, there's no way this major move is ready for implementation - especially given all we've seen to date of the relationship between you and your vendor and their responsiveness (or more accurately the lack there of) when something goes wrong.

Given this site is already operating on the margins financially (unless things have changed?), I don't think you should take the risk of killing off what little traffic remains (by previous standards) in another botched migration.

So all this clap in CA/IMHO over users raging about discussing "US topics on an Irish forum" and the forum is being hosted in the US? kek kek kek

Any chance we could be given the option of not seeing that add about Ukraine everytime we try to load up a thread on Boards.ie

Yes I know there is a war on in Ukraine. I come here to chat and get away from that. I see enough of it on the news. I do not need to keep constantly seeing it here too. Just have it if people are going into the Current Affairs threads and the ones about Russia and Ukraine not everywhere else.

I agree with the poster above wait another week at least or even better a month before you change things over. Let's try and get it right this time unlike last time which was a disaster.

Any chance you could make the announcement message closable?

So what does this mean for the Burkes?

Kaiser, tell the truth, you will be here until boards breathes it's last breath. You have a love hate relationship, they could revert the site to a dreamweaver html website and you would still embrace it.

The Russians are tapping the undersea cable so they can capture all of Boards in one go. 😀

Is the site slow? I hadn't noticed.

If it aint broke, don't fix it.

I'm with the ancestors (sticks to you) but have 500MB fibre. Is it only ADSL users on ~2MB that report slow loading?

Many casual users may not understand what the original post here is about. Can it be edited to explain in one line that there is a site migration on X date and what the expected outage is? More details below then for those interested.

In terms of the migration itself, is it possible to do a dry run? Then you’ll know how long it would take and iron out any kinks in the process.

AMS is Amsterdam I assume?

For those of you wondering about speeds. I have an FTTH connection, and the main page takes ~ 750ms -> 1200ms to load (slow by modern standards). All of the javascript/css is well-cached via CDN, and loads much faster (because it doesn't change that often), around 30ms.

Hope there is a rollback plan!

"This is simply a move to a server that is much closer to home. There will not be any changes to the layout, settings, appearance or functionality of the site."

Pity...

Its a data center migration, which, to anyone who has done one before, is certainly not a trivial exercise. If it was me I wouldn't be down playing its potential for impact.

Are Vanilla already hosting live sites from this AMS DC?

Have we tried a background migration and confirmed it all works before we actually switch the live site?