The website has just switched over to a VPS instead of our old shared hosting solution
This has been a long time coming.
The old site was slow and we almost hit our resource cap each month. This month that happened. We hit our 20gb bandtwidth limit, meaning the site was unavailable for about an hour while we got the website imported to the new VPS.
Is the site still unavailable for your buddies?Since the host changed, the IP also changed, meaning people either have to wait for their DNS to reset, or clear it manually. A guide for flushing your dns can be found here for both Windows and Mac)
https://documentation.cpanel.net/display/CKB/How+To+Clear+Your+DNS+CacheLinux users, i expect you to know how to do this on your own!
It still doesn't work!It is very possibly that your computer is using a DNS server that has not yet itself cleared its cache.
If you know how to change your DNS to something like Google DNS, then you can do this (it is most likely better than your default DNS server anyway)
However i wont actually say you should do it, it is just a matter of time before the site works for you again
The new hostFirst of all, the new host is cheaper, but i think these results speak for themselves
Old site | New site |
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The new site also has a 1TB bandtwidth, meaning we shouldn't hit this cap again any time soon
There are still some minor issues with the character encodings, but everything seems to work fine