All change at HRMS Aces
Today’s the day.
The day i’ve been planning (and dreading) for almost a month now, has finally arrived.
I get to pull the plug on HRMSACES and move it lock-stock across to a completely new hosting company. New server, new hosts and a new domain.
The idea of switching hosting companies came up in a conversation with an old fried at the UK Oracle User Group meeting in Birmingham last December.
I’d met up with an old DBA lag of mine, and whilst the free beer was flowing we discussed many pressing issues of the day (state of the contract market, temperature of the beer, Digital SLR’s, Web Hosting, Apple Mac’s etc). Web Hosting got me talking. At the time i was using 1and1 internet as my primary hosts (and registrar) for all of the domains i own, including the HRMSACES forum site. However i was (and still am at present) paying for a professional hosting package, which chimes in at £29 per month plus other sundries for the numerous additional domains held. This means i am paying, on average, over £70 per quarter.
Tim (the DBA) had almost choked on his beer at that (almost but not quite – a DBA defends his beer to the end and would rather miss an RMAN backup than see beer go to waste). Further discussions ensued, and the outcome was that i was being fleeced and should mosey over to an outfit called Fuzioned, who would kit me out for significantly less of my hard-earned ££££.
So that is what i did…Actually that wasn’t. What i did was procrastinate for about 3 months before finally approaching them.
Anyway – the rest is a ramble for another day. What we have happening today is the “big one”. Having already moved over my own company web sites and email (with zero downtime i hasten to add) today we embark on a journey to move the (reasonably) active HRMSACES foums.
I suspect it won’t be smooth, and will take more time than i have planned, but hopefully it should all be right in the end…