It’s common knowledge that our current host is dog shite and the availability of the forum is quite poor. Not only do we routinely get the “download bug” issue, but at least once a day for me the forum just times out, sometimes multiple times a day.
Therefore tomorrow I’m going to move the forum to a new host. The forum is already setup there and all that needs to be done is for the DNS to be updated to point to the new nameservers. I will then replace this URL with a page containing a link to the new host. Once the DNS has shifted over I can delete the forum from the old host. There’s a good chance that you might not even notice anything has changed.
It can take up to 24 hours for DNS to propagate so if you visit clodofwar.net tomorrow or the next day then you might see a redirect message for a little bit. Once you redirect you might also see a slightly different domain name for the forum, but once propagated everything should be back to normal and running under the .net domain (so don’t update your bookmarks).
The new host should be much more reliable and gives us complete control over the server and environment, so we can install extensions that weren’t available before (such as push notifications etc).
That’s the idea anyway. Hopefully it all goes smoothly.