New PBSBAC website switch over

[Steve S]

All being well the PBSBAC website will be switched to a new server on the evening of the 3rd December. The appearance of the website and forum will be substantially the same so no big learning curve.

 

There has been a great deal of work behind the scenes modifying the code by Mark and Tanya so that it will run on a modern specification commercial server. Since Oli took over maintenance of the website many years ago, it has been run on a private server kindly hosted by Oli's company and maintained by Oli, that's been a lot of work over many years. The server however is now old and cost money every month to run so a switch was required, meantime software system have moved on so a major update to the code was required, that's now completed.

 

We have been testing the new website, however, as is the way with software there may be some problems lurking which we have missed. Please report on this thread any possible issues you find once you see the notification that the website has switched, all being well that will be from the 4th Dec

 

There are some new features which will be detailed in a later post once it's live.

[Rob]

Awesome, looking forward to it!

 

Thanks to Oli for all the work up to now!

 

Thanks for Mark and Tayna for the refresh!

 

R

[great white]

As Rob says 

 

Thanks to Oli for keeping the old one going for so long on his own server.

 

Lets hope for a smooth change over, with minimal hiccups. well done all concerned with this large project.

[Graham Nash]

Im in awe of people who can do this sort of stuff.

 

Well done (and thanks) to Oli for his commitment up till now and good luck to those who have the task of changing it over. It might as well be in Swahili to me! 

[Jim]

Me too Graham.

I'm trying to update my own simple website at the moment and as you say . . . . . . Swahili   😪