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Bus Australia website moving to new web host

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Just advising users that this site will shortly be transferred to a new web host (tentatively scheduled for next weekend 20-21 March).

This will involve some outage of the site but we will attempt to keep this to a minimum.

I have already started transferring photo attachments across to the new server. So if you are browsing an old photo thread (prior to 1st Jan 2010) you may receive an error message instead of the photos displaying correctly. This will be corrected when everything is transferred across.
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As most members would be aware we are now on the new server - however there are still some matters to be resolved:-
Fleet Lists - The information is on the new server but will not display - this is being investigated.
Photo Galley - It is still on the old server and it is currently not possible to upload any additional photos until the photos are moved.
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I'm getting the odd white page (IE: a page which has no content and any html markings) on the forum from time to time.
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Bidgee wrote:I'm getting the odd white page (IE: a page which has no content and any html markings) on the forum from time to time.
Same here - Down time or something?
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Bidgee wrote:I'm getting the odd white page (IE: a page which has no content and any html markings) on the forum from time to time.
Me too, but it's not happening so often now, in fact tonight it hasn't happened at all.
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I use Safari web browser, and I get this message that BA's server has dropped my connection to the server
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Between 8am and 8.20am it was happening all the time to me but have now just got through.
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soulblade wrote:I use Safari web browser, and I get this message that BA's server has dropped my connection to the server
Same here. Waiting a few minutes usually turns into an hour...or perhaps all night. :lol:
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The big question remains, when will the fleetlists be fixed & once again able to be updated??? :shock:
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gen man wrote:The big question remains, when will the fleetlists be fixed & once again able to be updated??? :shock:
There is a separate thread on that aspect in the Fleet Lists Admin section which is restricted to to the Fleet List Admins.
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Fleet Lists wrote:Between 8am and 8.20am it was happening all the time to me but have now just got through.
I struck the" white screen" again between 5.37pm and 6.06 pm this afternoon.

On Firefox I got just a white screen - not the usual messages when connection with a server is lost.

On IR I did get a message that connection with the server was lost but diagnostics I ran did not seem to give a definite answer as to what the problem is.

BUT the server was definitely operating during that time as I had no probles accessing the Bus Australia home or the photo gallery.

So it appears to be a problem isolated to the forum and not encountered with other sections of the Bus Australia website.
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As response to my posting my previous message, I got the blank screen again.

I also notice that no messages were posted between 5.39pm and 6.14pm which tends to make me think that the problem was hard on between those times and again the same thing after 6.15 to 7.46pm but other parst of Bus Australia were working OK.
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I got the white screen (I use Firefox) between approx. 2140 and 2215 this evening.
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Just about evertime I've tried to log in I get the white screen. I'll get 5-10 minute gaps where it works (in that time I'll type & post & then get the white screen). I don't know if anyone is getting this, but even though my log in settings are saved for each time I have to log in each time now.
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Same here... frustrating.

(off topic, but I'd just like to say I wish I had found this forum years ago - very enjoyable..)

PS. I use firefox too.
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Bus 400 wrote:Just about evertime I've tried to log in I get the white screen. I'll get 5-10 minute gaps where it works (in that time I'll type & post & then get the white screen). I don't know if anyone is getting this, but even though my log in settings are saved for each time I have to log in each time now.
Yes I went off again about 21.40 and gave up for the night.

And each time afterwards I have had to sign in again as you mention.

Is it possibly a bandwidth problem as it seems to happen more when more members are logged in.
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At least the fleet lists and most other scripts are now working.

If you find any that are not working please post the info here ie the name of the script concerned..
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The white screen just happened between 14:45-15:00. Now I am able to view the forum.
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Fleet Lists wrote:At least the fleet lists and most other scripts are now working.

If you find any that are not working please post the info here ie the name of the script concerned..
I'll do a minor update to see it's working
http://19302413.blogspot.com/

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Simes wrote:
Fleet Lists wrote:At least the fleet lists and most other scripts are now working.

If you find any that are not working please post the info here ie the name of the script concerned..
I'll do a minor update to see it's working
I just tried to move 3041 from Newcastle to Leichhardt in the new format STA lists and it did not work
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I had already posted that in the fleet lists admin section.
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Thanks for updating us Simes. We appreciate whats going on. Not all of us can obviously see the admin section so its nice that someone can keep us informed on the fleet side of things without constantly needing to make his point.
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White screen for me from 6.30 am to about 7.15 am this morning, so probably not a bandwidth issue, I wouldn't have thought...
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Simes wrote: I just tried to move 3041 from Newcastle to Leichhardt in the new format STA lists and it did not work
Ken's done some computer voodoo and that action now works
http://19302413.blogspot.com/

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Could be a forum issue or database (MySQL)?

I think phpBB (been awhile since I've operated a web forum) can sometimes have connection issues to the database or MySQL has a limit on the amount of connections to the database but normally the board shows up an error message with a number.
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