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Just an update on the new forum progress. I've put a proposal into the powers that be at WSC, which is basically moving to a more modern forum software and includes various costs and schedules.
The main question right now is around migration of content. As mentioned, the current forum has 1.2 million posts across 35,000 threads and 19,000 users.
I think I am right in saying that we all want to keep those posts, threads and accounts and migrate them across to newOTF. However, that is going to come at a cost in money and downtime. The money side of it can be ignored right now.
There are two options.
1. Option 1 is to shut down Kunena at a specified time, backup the database, send it to a conversion company and migrate to the new board. It would require testing before relaunching to make sure that everything works before we can come back up. All in all, lets take a pessimistic view and say that the forum will be completely offline for 4-7 days.
2. Option 2 is to shut down Kunena for a brief time (lets say, 24 hours, max). Then backup the database, send it to the conversion company and migrate the content to the new board. In the mean time, the current Kunena would be back up and running as normal. Once the migration has been tested and completed, we shut down Kunena again, back it up, send it off, convert, migrate, test (more briefly) and we are up once more. In this scenario, we are down for 2-3 days.
Option 2, by the way, costs 25% more. We have to pay for two migrations.
So, what do people think? What is acceptable to you?
Finally, what would you prefer - that newOTF has the same structure as Kunena (Football, World, Film & TV etc) or would you prefer a better structure with sub-forums, and the current content in "Archive"?
Just an update on the new forum progress. I've put a proposal into the powers that be at WSC, which is basically moving to a more modern forum software and includes various costs and schedules.
The main question right now is around migration of content. As mentioned, the current forum has 1.2 million posts across 35,000 threads and 19,000 users.
I think I am right in saying that we all want to keep those posts, threads and accounts and migrate them across to newOTF. However, that is going to come at a cost in money and downtime. The money side of it can be ignored right now.
There are two options.
1. Option 1 is to shut down Kunena at a specified time, backup the database, send it to a conversion company and migrate to the new board. It would require testing before relaunching to make sure that everything works before we can come back up. All in all, lets take a pessimistic view and say that the forum will be completely offline for 4-7 days.
2. Option 2 is to shut down Kunena for a brief time (lets say, 24 hours, max). Then backup the database, send it to the conversion company and migrate the content to the new board. In the mean time, the current Kunena would be back up and running as normal. Once the migration has been tested and completed, we shut down Kunena again, back it up, send it off, convert, migrate, test (more briefly) and we are up once more. In this scenario, we are down for 2-3 days.
Option 2, by the way, costs 25% more. We have to pay for two migrations.
So, what do people think? What is acceptable to you?
Finally, what would you prefer - that newOTF has the same structure as Kunena (Football, World, Film & TV etc) or would you prefer a better structure with sub-forums, and the current content in "Archive"?
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