June 19, 201411 yr I will try to explain... I read an article that said InvisionPower Board would be releasing a new version of IP Board soon (4.0, as we are using 3.4 now), but they required all forum owners to change the "Character" set to utf8_x_x. Our website was using character set latin1.x.x, so prior to the release, it needed to be changed. The character sets are what websites use to read various languages/characters. Anyway, I used a tool they provided for the conversion, but the website started freezing horribly, so I attempted to fix it. The more I tried, the worse it got, and so on. It finally got to the point where it would not start at all, so after paying $50 for tech support (I let it slip this last time to save money), I sent in a request for help. They wrote me back and said I needed to update my login information, which I did. They then said they would attempt to fix it, but they would require me to give them complete access to the main Cpanel (controls website), which I complied. After gaining access, they then told me that I would require some changes to the database variables for the site to work properly, so I contacted the web host, Inmotion Web Hosting, and sent them the variables that needed to be changed. Well, Inmotion support wrote me back, and said that thearmory.cc was on a "shared" server, and they would not make those changes for just one website. They suggested I move to one of their VPSs (virtual private servers), which starts at about $29.99 a month. I was actually considering this, but thought I should try another shared hosting company, so I started searching for a deal. Meanwhile, the website was still down, cutting everyone off. I finally discovered GoDaddy.com, and it seemed like they were offering a good deal, so I signed up for their service and moved all of the files. After packaging up 5.5 Gigabyte of files, I downloaded them, and subsequently uploaded them to the new site. As you know, from a home connection, this took some time. I them moved the DNS nameservers to point to the new site, which is why you may have experienced the site coming and going for the past 24-48 hours. I kept this explanation as short as short as I could, so I hope you now understand the turmoil I was faced with in getting the site back up. Hopefully all is stabilized for now.
June 20, 201411 yr Wow Missed all that!! But glad to see your tech saavy enough to kick some web A$$ Thanks for keeping this going all these years!!!
June 20, 201411 yr Author Wow Missed all that!! But glad to see your tech saavy enough to kick some web A$$ Thanks for keeping this going all these years!!! Thank you TomC. It's always nice to hear.
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