The migration is over, post problems here

Yeah, we had one of those once upon a time ... I heard he was a real jackass.

Bolt said:

... will somebody please fix the skins?

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What skins?

Knight IXA said:

once again, I'd like to ask just why there were two recent migrations that halted activity on the forum?

I don't know why, and that's why I'm asking

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The saga goes like this...
Originally (aka when I came on board) HJU was hosted on site5 (if i remember correctly). For reasons I no longer remember, it was migrated over to godaddy. That went ok for a while and then performance went downhill. Sparked by a good New Years deal, an account was purchased with DreamHost and we migrated over there. It was quickly found that the plan we had could not handle the awesome F5 powers of you fine folks, and we promptly moved back to godaddy. Around the end of the year performance started going down again and GD up and moved the site themselves onto a server that could better handle it for 30 days while we got things together. During that time they suggested a Grid account be purchased as it would be able to handle the load that the site was generating. That was done and when the 30 days was up they moved it back to the original server. It wasn't moved to the grid then because it seemed to be running smooth still. Then once again performance went down and 503's went up. That brings us to the first migration where we went to the Grid. Shortly after, it seemed to actually be performing worse than before the move. Other problems also came up from being moved from a Linux to a Windows host. After some poking around a urljet account was picked up and that is where the last move was to. We are back on a Linux server, and with a host that is reviewed as being fully able to handle the load, along with specializing in VBulletin sites. In less than a week they have been more helpful than GD was in our entire time there, as due to limitations with the account, their intervention was needed for a crucial step in getting the forums back online, and they had it fixed up in a few hours time. So, that should fully satisfy your curiosity And hopefully this is the end of the story.

Please try everything once more. I think I nailed it and everything I've tried so far has passed with flying colors. I still have the one banner link to fix but other than that I think we might just be good.

Keith Justice said:

What skins?

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I don't know if all of them are screwy because obviously I don't use all of them, but the G3 skin (which is the purdiest and most bluest) has a bunch of weird blank places where the skin detail used to be. Nothing serious, just a bit of an eyesore.

Man it's been a long time since I looked at this one. Can you put in my detail what's wrong with it?

I'm not seeing anything.

The lightish blue area around the posts and sidebar are blank, whereas they used to have some kind of texture or something. It just looks unfinished.

Alright awesome, thanks guys.

I don't know if this is the result of the migration, but after it ended, sometimes the thread doesn't load all the way.

For example, say I go to the Dive into the Mirror thread in the HJU Jukebox (the first time it happened). After my post, not only does the thread automatically take me back to my post as it usually does, but it also doesn't load all the posts, such as more recent posts like mine or someone else's. I even refresh/F5 my tabs, and it still doesn't work.

This is often temporary, but sometimes, I get that in other threads, such as Ragna's "Tales of Vesperia" thread in the Game Station (today). Sometimes, the loading would stop at one post, and not even load to the usual bottom of the forum, containing the adds, quick links back to the front forum page, etc.

So...yeah...what's up with that?