autumnwalker Posted July 14, 2022 Report Share Posted July 14, 2022 Looking at changing the URL from "backcountry4x4club.ca/forums" to "forums.backcountry4x4club.ca". This will allow me to host the main site on an edge provider (e.g. Cloudflare) and the forum from the server in my basement. I've been paying to have the site hosted for the last two years (since I moved) with a cloud service provider and I'm looking to move it back to my own infrastructure and eliminate that monthly cost. With this change, if I need to reboot the server in my basement the forum will be down, but the main site will be up. If I have to do some sort of extended maintenance on the server we can put a notice on backcountry4x4club.ca to alert visitors vs. the entire site being unavailable. Not entirely sure when I'll make the change, but I'll setup a redirect so that when users visit the old URL they are redirected to the new URL. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sar4x4 Posted July 15, 2022 Report Share Posted July 15, 2022 Just saw this now. I say ‘Carry on good sir!’ Thanks for the insight / info and good work! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autumnwalker Posted July 15, 2022 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2022 Thanks @sar4x4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomWood Posted July 15, 2022 Report Share Posted July 15, 2022 I say if its going to cost less then go for it. Unfortunately the forum is not a popular place in general nowadays. Everything is social media. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autumnwalker Posted July 21, 2022 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2022 Quick update on this for anyone who's interested. I have a test server up and running in the homelab for the forum. I have the forum software loaded (and I'm troubleshooting the image rotation issue). I also converted the entire main website (everything except the forum) to a set of static HTML pages and have them deployed to CloudFlare Pages (a serverless platform). I've even figured out how to keep our random image banner working (javascript) and our contact form using a CloudFlare Pages Function. The actual live website has not changed yet - I'm doing all the above stuff to test and prove out my plan. I'm pretty comfortable with how it's all working so next will be to start doing migrations to the new infrastructure for realsies. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autumnwalker Posted November 22, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 22, 2022 I've put this idea on hold for now. Instead I've moved the server to a new server with more resources. Will keep an eye on things the way they are. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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