• Which the release of FS2020 we see an explosition of activity on the forun and of course we are very happy to see this. But having all questions about FS2020 in one forum becomes a bit messy. So therefore we would like to ask you all to use the following guidelines when posting your questions:

    • Tag FS2020 specific questions with the MSFS2020 tag.
    • Questions about making 3D assets can be posted in the 3D asset design forum. Either post them in the subforum of the modelling tool you use or in the general forum if they are general.
    • Questions about aircraft design can be posted in the Aircraft design forum
    • Questions about airport design can be posted in the FS2020 airport design forum. Once airport development tools have been updated for FS2020 you can post tool speciifc questions in the subforums of those tools as well of course.
    • Questions about terrain design can be posted in the FS2020 terrain design forum.
    • Questions about SimConnect can be posted in the SimConnect forum.

    Any other question that is not specific to an aspect of development or tool can be posted in the General chat forum.

    By following these guidelines we make sure that the forums remain easy to read for everybody and also that the right people can find your post to answer it.

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This morning the server was down again, but we have fixed it by restarting the database server.

We as administrators also feel the server is not stable enough, so we have decided to move the website to another hosting company. Currently we are using a VPS server, which means we have to do all server configurations ourselves. When we start with such a server our admin team still have more tech knowledge on board (Nick for example).

Now our admin team has less of that knowledge and most of use don't like to spend so much time on the server either. So we have decided to move to a managed webhosting company. We feel that for the services we run here at FSDeveloper that is more than enough and it means we have to spend less time on managing the server. We'll be using the same company I use for the scenerydesign.org website.

Hopefully somewhere next week I will be able to do the move, but of course we'll inform you ahead of time when we start working on the server.
 
Many thanks Arno and team for all of your hard work in keeping this the best site for developers of FS. You guys rock!
 
Thanks for the tremendous job on keeping this place online and alive - very much respected!
 
SleepyBirds.bmp

Thanks Arno and all the other admins, for maintaining this great and inspiring place
so "Developer-Birds of a Feather can continue to flock together"
 
Hi all,

A small update. Since I'll be away from home this weekend, I won't do the server move before then. So I plan to move the website on either the Monday or the Tuesday next week. Once I know the exact date I'll let you know of course.
 
Thanks Tom! I'd never seen this before. Now I've watched it three times in a row... :rotfl:
 
I have a hunch who was responsible for working on the servers...
 
Hi all,

After all the fun, just to let you know I'll try to perform most of the move tonight. During that time I will probably disable the forum for a while.
 
And while we are still in fun mode, I think running the website and probably also FS development often more feels like this:

 
OK, I did an attempt this evening to move everything to the new server, but was not fully successful yet. So I have opened the forum again on the old server, while I check how to resolve the last remaining issues. Hopefully I can do another attempt in a few days.
 
Hi all,

Just a prior notice that tonight I'll do another attempt for the move. So in an hour or two the site will be turned off again while I work on it.
 
Bugger, transition failed again because of many issues on the new host. So we are back on the old one again. Will try again later this week.
 
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