Avatars missing following upgrade

[dandanfireman]

I am working on an upgrade for one of my customers and I appear to have lost the customer avatar functionality. All I see is "user x's Avatar" in the place of where the picture might show up....

[dandanfireman]

It is off way more than that. If you set both to gmt-5, it becomes off by 4 hours.

[dandanfireman]

We have a FreeBSD server. It is configured for GMT-5 and the time is correct. However, when setting vBulletin to -5 in admincp and usercp, we get incorrect times. The output of date.php is
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[dandanfireman]

My forum constantly shows 13 guests online at almost all times. This either means that a table has some incorrect entries or that I have bots stuck on my site. Can someone offer some troubleshooting...

[dandanfireman]

Rackshack.net is a reputable provider of UNMANAGED dedicated servers. They are a very good option if you are comfortable managing all aspects of the server yourself. They abosultely will not help with...

[dandanfireman]

I don't think it should always be about money. VO has proven themselves to be a good company that offers a good product. Quality costs money. Good support costs money....

[dandanfireman]

The difference between shared and dedicated depends on the type of dedicated service offered by your host. There is a huge difference between unmanaged, semi-managed, and managed servers.
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[dandanfireman]

I would definitely upgrade the ram. As your biggest site is vb (php based), you are going to need some cpu and memory to help in parsing all of that scripting. If you do go dedicated, I would also recommend...

[dandanfireman]

phpmyadmin will work if the database is small. I believe less than 2M.

I agree with the previous post. This is something your host should do for you if they don't allow telnet/ssh. As...

[dandanfireman]

I presume that one of the reasons you are looking at another server is bandwidth related. How much bandwidth are you currently using? How much bandwidth do you "burst" to now? What will you...

[dandanfireman]

It sounds like maybe one of the following:

1. The user, cyburbia doesn't exist
2. The password for user cyburbia in your /admin/config.php file does not match the (new) one assigned...

[dandanfireman]

I am not exactly sure where this goes, so if this is the wrong place, please move it for me.

I routinely do vB installs for my customers. What is the approved way of ensuring that they...

[dandanfireman]

How about

mysql -uusername -p -D dbname < /path/to/dbfile.sql

[dandanfireman]

During some recent server moves I did the following to reduce downtime.

1. Setup new account on new server
2. Shutdown forum
3. Move site and database to new host
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[dandanfireman]

I think you are referring to the site's access_log or whatever your server administrator chose to call it.

I am speaking specifically about a hidden file in a user's home directory called...