Rich

It's still flicking between for me sometimes, by the way. It'll work one minute then it'll direct me back to the old one the next.

Aye, we're just looking for www.newcastle-online.org to get people here in the very short-term. Once everyone can access this place via that link I'll switch all the links back to "newcastle-online.org" instead of "46.105.126.209".

Good stuff, cheers for keeping us up to speed mate.

I've edited my post, I'm getting both depending on where I am on the forum. When posting in this thread I get http://46.105.126.209/nufcforum/index.php/topic,73457.msg3209899.html#quickreply Aye, looks like it's sorted for Virgin now too. Maybe it's just sorted for everyone? Still going to leave the numbers in the title until Monday, most likely, then we'll be back to have "newcastle-online.org/" everywhere.

Cheers again Mick That's what I was after. By the way, for others, you will still see the "46.105.126.209", but does clicking www.newcastle-online.org bring you to the new server or still to the old on in maintenance mode?

How fucking slow are Virgin DNS servers man? It'll come mate, I'm a lot more relaxed now it's sorted for me (Sky).

By the way, www.newcastle-online.org is now working for me. Anybody else?

Still happening, Anth?

Cheers Stu. I'll keep having a fiddle though because I'm not sure whether it's just teething issues or a deeper matter.

That must be it then, someone else has reported similar problems with another forum. I'll see if I can find the question mark symbol wherever it shows in the database itself and edit it out.

An initial look hints that it might be something to do with the conversion to UTF-8 from Latin1 in the character set of the forum. Do the blank posts contain foreign characters like é for example?

Any particular posts or is it happening randomly? Does it fix itself after a refresh? I've just seen a similar error in my PM inbox after having a look around. Anyone else seeing this?

I had adjusted the TTL a few days ago as as well, on everything (just to try and speed it up). Some use that was!

Thanks you two, I'll keep an eye on this one. Hopefully just teething problems/cache stuff with your old data from the old server.

By the way, is anybody just accessing this through the usual address? My DNS hasn't updated yet so I'm on http://46.105.126.209/nufcforum/index.php.

Anyway people, it'll be naturally sluggish for a while as it builds the cache and all that stuff. All the images you see will have to load again from scratch as well. So if new pages are taking a little while longer to load, then that's why. Aside from that I'll be keeping as best an eye on it as possible, but if there's any quirks other than the dodgy characters that have cropped up due to the conversion to the UTF8 character set (�) then please give us a shout in here or via PM. If these symbols have cropped up in your titles/signatures then you'll need to fix them yourselves, but if it's a username thing (like AlanSkaerare's Swedish character turning into a � for example) then just give us a PM with the proper character in and we'll swap it for you. The work isn't done yet as we're currently running without a few underlying components that give us about 30% extra speed, but we appear to have migrated all of the databases and files successfully. Next step: SMF 2.0. Soon. I'm doing a trial run right now on a separate part of the site. The theme is already made.

http://www.traintohell.com/misc/aceventura.gif Might be jumping the gun a bit, but I just love that.

If I fuck it up again, I will gladly accept punishment. Should have been done by today

Just to let people know that I'm attempting round 2 tonight, so there'll be further downtime. Keep an eye on the maintenance messages while it's switched off and I'll do my best to keep people in the loop. Thanks again for the patience.

It's the DNS thing with Virgin, must be set to 12 hours or something like that before it will refresh the lookup data, nowt we can do but wait unfortunately.

Aye, it's my fault (that DNS cock-up I was talking about). Like I said: beast.

Yeah, got a very good package for a very small increase. We're getting there.

Some people will have been getting sent to the new server (and may still be there) thanks to the DNS configuration. So apologies for that. I've had a beast.

Back up with a few dodgy symbols. Anything else odd and please let me know. I'll get to work removing them now.