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Migration Update
The Cloud update and migration is set up, I have the cloud account already. The migration is waiting for some info they asked about.
This is part of what they sent me after setting up the account. Quote:
Also the plugins they refer to include iTrader, I've looked for ways to make it work with the newer vB versions but it's almost 20 years old and not current at all. I'm still looking for a replacement for iTrader that will work.
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New Path for Update. Hopefully SOON.
For the last year the site has definitely had some issues, we had to move to a new server in 01/23 and the new server's MySQL version conflicted with our older software which caused the slow loading or failures to load as well as odd text and exceptions.
I have been working with the developers of our forum software to update to a current version since May of 2023 but that has taken far longer than it should have due to the proprietary control panel on the new server. Rather than continuing on what has been too long a path to make the updated software work on our private server I?m switching gears. I?m moving to cloud hosting with vBulletin. This should not only resolve the current issues but improve our update process as they will be installing updates, patches and upgrades automatically. Barring any unexpected problems this transition will be occurring this month. According to vB's answer to yesterday's question I sent 'You can start by purchasing the Gold Plan, and we will manually upgrade you to the custom Enterprise Plan we discussed after. Please let us know once you have purchased so we can initiate the upgrade and migration.' I will be starting the process today by purchasing the cloud subscription, as soon as I hear of a definitive time for the upgrade and migration I will post it here, on calguns.org and on the Calguns Members group on FB.
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Update and Poss. Change of Course
First off I want to thank everyone for being so patient with this mess, I really do appreciate it.
I am getting really F'N pissed at vBulletin. Not only does support leave you dangling apparently sales does as well! On December 19 I heard from them regarding the software update, 'working on it'. Mid to late Jan. I ask for an update and was told 'I'll look in to it tomorrow' As of today I guess it's still not 'tomorrow'. All of this is after having to chase them down to begin with. A week or so ago I decided to look at other options, specifically some of the cloud hosted options offered by vBulletin and Xenforo. They host their own software on their cloud server, you own the data, database and have autonomy to run your site as you want to. Software and server updates and upgrades are handle by them behind the scenes so you're always on the newest release. I sent the same email to both vB and Xenforo, Identical wording except changing the names. There was a follow up by both, Xenforo withing a day, vB within a couple of days, asking about traffic stats. Within 18 hours of my reply with the info on our traffic I received an email from Xenforo with an estimate on monthly hosting costs, new license cost and conversion/migration costs. So far I haven't received a second reply from vB. Today I sent a brand new sales request to vB with all the info they asked for in the previous discussion. If I don't hear from them within 48 hours I will be asking them for a refund for both the vB5 license and the Paid Install/Upgrade service. I would like to stay with vB, I am familiar with it, already paid for the license, service and for a custom template for vB5 that replicates CGN's colors and theme. But we can not wait for them any longer so either they ***** or get off the damn pot.
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