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Old 17th May 2012, 2:12 pm   #113
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Default Re: Server Busy or Unavailable

Exactly, it's the knock-on effect on the eCommerce websites that is the issue.

We have had a few problems caused by vBulletin software recently. It is an old version, no longer developed, and the upgrade is too expensive for me for a hobby website.

So there are two options:

1. Migrate the whole forum (with all users, threads, attachments, PMs etc) to different forum software such as phpBB. This is likely to cause some upheaval and there will probably be a few things that don't quite work.

2. Organise separate (cheap) hosting for the forum. Shared hosting somewhere is less of an issue for that because the odd bit of downtime is not a big deal. However there is a cost again, and for the size and traffic of the forum it may be quite significant.

I am looking into option 1, though nothing can happen until I've moved and have broadband on at the new flat.
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