We're changing servers

Great news - USPSA is upgrading our web server. To give you an idea, here's a comparison between the two systems:

In addition to the performance improvement, we are discontinuing the practice of hosting several non-USPSA sites under a cooperative arrangement that involved USPSA renting server space. Two of these sights ar high traffic sites, and moving them off the USPSA server will improve out performance.

USPSA is discontinuing the practice of giving any USPSA club that requests it free hosting, however, USPSA continue to support those clubs that already have sites on the USPSA server. USPSA will continue to provide hosting for any Area site that requests it, or any site an Area Director uses is support of his/her duties.

For Webmasters

There are a few steps that webmasters need to take to have your site moved:

1. Contact rob@boudrie.com and let me know you are ready for the move. Once the move starts, you should not make any changes to your domain.
2. Inform me as to your preferences regarding MySQL databases:
   1. No special action - changes made to the old server during the time when the DNS is changing may be lost (for example, recent forum entries)
   2. Temporary interruption (a day or two) of database driven functionality with no loss of data.
3. Update your mail program (Outlook, Outlook Express, etc.) settings - see "For Users" below.
4. Once the move is complete, update the DNS for your domain as follows:
   1. DNS SERVERS set to:
      1. ns1.theplanet.com
      2. ns2.theplanet.com
   2. Or, if USPSA owns the domain (Area sites, etc), I'll take care of it for you.

For Users

The main issue for users is assuring that there is an uninterrupted access to email and that none is lost in the transition.

There will be a period of a few days when we change the address of the server that some email will be delivered to both servers.

There are two ways to make sure you get all your mail:

The fancy way:

The way to make sure you get it all is to configure two accounts in your mail reading program, with the following server names for incoming mail (you will see this listed as the"incoming" or "pop3" server)

67.15.14.83 (this is the old server)
209.62.63.82 (this is our new server)

Use the same username/account on each that you are currently using.

The second one is the new server, and the first one is the old server. This will download mail from both servers, assuring that none is lost.

Alternatively, you can leave your email settings unchanged.

After about a week you can remove the email account wi ht the old server name and change the new servername to mail.yourdomainname.com.

The easy way:

Do not make any changes to your email program. Access your mail on the old server via webmail, using http://www.simonthedog.com/webmail.

The web interface will allow access to the email on the old server without any changes to your email program.

The only "catch" is that you will not start loading email off the new server until your domain name starts resolving to the new server (which can take a day or two)