301 Redirect to new Domain

[Odysseus]

So, your hosting company DELETED your data from their servers, just because of the possibility you might use unlicensed software?
Despite using possibly unlicensed software, destroying your data...

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Urgs... not sure if I really want to do that.

But I just found out, that in "archive" mode, [IMG]-linked images are not being displayed! Just the URL is shown, which is perfectly...

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Hm... is this possible without file modification?
AFAIR, it is not...

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In Germany, we have a quite unsatisfying situation: The law does not explicitly tell whether it is legal or not, but according to "copyright laws" (which are quite different in Germany than...

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Hu!? When did god introduce a minimum size for the RAM of servers?

I ran vBulletin on a webserver with 512 MB RAM for more than a year without a problem. And there are even smaller servers...

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Thank you, Colin -- it's working wonderful.

[Odysseus]

Hi there!
I decided that my forum needs a new Domain name.
Now, I would like to make sure that Google hits reach their new destination correctly. I want to do this with http 301 redirects...

[Odysseus]

I updated from 3.0.5. Before that, I reverted all templates.
Now there is this annoying problem:

When using the quick reply box, the message "please wait..." appears, but...

[Odysseus]

Concerning all correspondation with the new customer, this may take anything from 5 minutes up to 3 hours, or even more. The people here want to earn money, and someone who seeks professional installation...

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Yet, you can get a free copy of vBulletin!
You just have to pay 85$/160$ for your account with the membership area.
From there you can download the software without any additional charge,...

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Hm ... §6.2 of their policies tells that adult content is not allowed ... but maybe this applies only for web packs and not to servers? I can_'t really imagine that they would not allow it.
...

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Well, Germany is member of the European Union. I can't imagine that there are any big differences.



I would not choose a Server at Server4You.de ... they had really bad press...

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In Germany, we have dedicated servers starting at 15 € (less that 20 USD) for a Celeron 1200 "server" with 200 GBs of bandwidth. But you can also get quite powerful machines for ~50 €...

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It's basically not so difficult to import data from another forum system.
Mainly, it is a question of which data you want to import: Users, forums, threads and posts are no problem in most cases,...

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This may take some days, depending on which payment method you chose.