Hello,
Firstly a small overview of my situation:
I recently purchased a tracker site that I had been a member for a few years out of love for the community and the material there.
Problem is, the theme and possibly the code is and looks old! It's based on TBdev but not sure which one and how many mods or not it has....
I think its probably a "slightly" updated TBDev 2008 original.
See a partial listing below:
Code:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 913 2007-01-06 15:11 addmark.php
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2013-10-01 01:17 admin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1760 2007-01-06 16:36 ajax-poller-cast-vote-php.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12344 2011-02-05 13:21 announce.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1914 2007-01-06 15:33 bookmarks.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8863 2010-12-09 00:14 browse.php
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 2009-07-06 20:23 cache
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2870 2006-12-26 05:09 checkuser.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 362 2006-12-11 03:16 clean.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 302 2007-01-15 12:31 clear_ann.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8472 2011-04-05 18:30 comment.php
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 2013-09-28 12:39 community
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 2010-09-28 20:28 config
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1171 2007-01-15 00:35 confirmemail.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1554 2006-12-26 05:47 confirm.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1624 2007-01-12 15:09 contactstaff.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 380 2008-03-11 02:18 delacct.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 749 2007-01-06 15:12 deletebookmark.php
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For the last week I spent countless hours reading posts here and googling away trying to understand the "scene" in general and the current situation.
I'm quite technical and familiar with (shared) hosting and Linux in general but still have hit walls for which I am in desperate need for advice and help...
Below, in point form, are the basic issues, in order of importance, that I need help with for now. Any links to posts (that I missed) and advice would be greatly appreciated.
I am willing to pay for help and after I get the general direction here I will be posting specific tasks on the "Buy and Sell" section.
1. The tracker/site is hosted in two dedicated servers (site/forum + DB) for no reason right now due to low traffic. I think!... I need to save money and move it to a cheaper server. *What* are the specific things I need to keep track of for a smooth migration????
e.g. how can i check if it's "memcached", what daemons are necessary. etc....
Or is it just a "regular" migration as for any other dynamic (PHP + MySQL) site???
2. Except for everything under /var/www/* and the MySQL dumps is there anything else I should backup for the migration (and for daily backups later on)???
3. After and IF the migration is successful, I would like to upgrade. I read a lot about my options.... what I really don't understand with the tracker scene is that the various versions seem to be in parallel.....
For example, in this forum there are sections/posts for TBDev 2008 and 2009 and an experimental 2010. AFAIK in software once there is a newer version one can upgrade. Is there a reason someone with a 2008 version will install mods etc. and still not upgrade to 2009??
- I have other questions as well but these will be for later. The above are super important as I need to migrate soon! (new invoice already here!)
Admins/Mods: I hope I posted this on the right section. If I screwed up somewhere please accept my apologies and guide me to the right place/process. I did try to read all the Rules.
Thanks in advance for all the desperately needed help !!!
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