I have spent the last week researching what I felt was the next step for WBF and it started with this thread......
https://whatsbestforum.com/threads/a-suggesting-about-search.30783/#post-652427
about which all of us agree, to wit our advanced search engine sucks for our needs as it does not search words that are less than 3 characters. As written in that thread we had purchased a Xenforo plug in for advanced search. Unbeknownst to us at the time, was that under our exiting architecture we could not use the Advanced Search plug in which is supposed to resolve words of 3 characters or less. In order to use this plug in we had to be on our own server as an app is installed over the server called "Elastic Search". That meant we needed to change to our own server
Initially I wondered if this was doable but after huddling with our web host I am happy to announce that WBF will have our own VPS starting on or about 0800 PDST this Saturday June 13
I am posting this announcement to inform all members that in order for the migration to take place our site will be down and the screen will show an Under Maintenance notice for 4-6 hours until after the migration everything can be checked to be operational. Of course in these sorts of computer server things I have learned they not always go flawlessly so please bear with us if the site is down for longer than expected. Certainly many thousands of eyes are better than a few pair of eyes so I would like to suggest that this thread be used to report any bugs
The upside of all is this all positive as we are now able to eliminate the firewall and the hope is the site should be much faster as a result. We have also enlarged our disk space so we are hoping for improved speeds and less of those Server 503 Error messaages
And finally most of all we would like some feedback about this advanced search plug in
It's our commitment and desire to make WBF the daily landing spot for audiophiles from all over the world
To the OP of the above thread, on behalf of Ron and I and Julian we would like to thank you for inspiring us to bring this to you. We care about this place we all call home for a short while each day and if there are suggestions to make the site better please feel free to bring them to our attention. Not saying we can do everything but this Xenforo platform is far more flexible than the much outdated vBulletin we used previously
https://whatsbestforum.com/threads/a-suggesting-about-search.30783/#post-652427
about which all of us agree, to wit our advanced search engine sucks for our needs as it does not search words that are less than 3 characters. As written in that thread we had purchased a Xenforo plug in for advanced search. Unbeknownst to us at the time, was that under our exiting architecture we could not use the Advanced Search plug in which is supposed to resolve words of 3 characters or less. In order to use this plug in we had to be on our own server as an app is installed over the server called "Elastic Search". That meant we needed to change to our own server
Initially I wondered if this was doable but after huddling with our web host I am happy to announce that WBF will have our own VPS starting on or about 0800 PDST this Saturday June 13
I am posting this announcement to inform all members that in order for the migration to take place our site will be down and the screen will show an Under Maintenance notice for 4-6 hours until after the migration everything can be checked to be operational. Of course in these sorts of computer server things I have learned they not always go flawlessly so please bear with us if the site is down for longer than expected. Certainly many thousands of eyes are better than a few pair of eyes so I would like to suggest that this thread be used to report any bugs
The upside of all is this all positive as we are now able to eliminate the firewall and the hope is the site should be much faster as a result. We have also enlarged our disk space so we are hoping for improved speeds and less of those Server 503 Error messaages
And finally most of all we would like some feedback about this advanced search plug in
It's our commitment and desire to make WBF the daily landing spot for audiophiles from all over the world
To the OP of the above thread, on behalf of Ron and I and Julian we would like to thank you for inspiring us to bring this to you. We care about this place we all call home for a short while each day and if there are suggestions to make the site better please feel free to bring them to our attention. Not saying we can do everything but this Xenforo platform is far more flexible than the much outdated vBulletin we used previously