On a new host

Since more than a year ago, I've been meaning to move the IVRPA site over to another host. Today it finally happened. At our old host, we had MySQL issues, we could not host mailinglists, and I was generally worried about the security of the server we were on.

Since around noon GMT, we're on Bluehost.com. Sofar things are looking good over here. Less cruft, and better security all round. Let's hope the performance matches what I've seen sofar.

The move itself did not go entirely as planned. I had planned to move the database first, and run the site with the database on the new server and files on the old for a while, testing the performance of the new server. This did not work out, because of security meassures (hey, security is GOOD!). So I decided to just go for it and move over the database AND files in one smooth move. This resulted in an outage of a couple of hours this morning (~10:00 - 12:30 CET); posts to the site during the move would have brought the two servers out of sync, so the site was temporarily set to maintenance mode.

Everything seems to work at ok at this point, but if you see anything abnormal about the site, be sure to let me know (in the comments below, or in the website feedback forum).