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Welcome to GFSA in ZA! It's always been prohibitively expensive to host the forum in ZA but that's changed recently thanks to all the luvverly international bandwidth cables that have been laid recently (and are still planned to be laid). Most notably, Seacom has really improved things and we're finding a lot more local companies offering uncapped hosting and stuff like that.

The benefits of hosting locally are mainly speed but, also, for those of you on local-only caps, you should be able to browse the forum where before you couldn't.

But of course, there are some teething issues:
  • I seem able to use the forum fine but not a single other soul has posted since last night, 8pm. So if you're seeing this, post something!
  • The site is now hosted on virtual server until I can get myself a dedicated ZA server. That means we might have a few database slow-downs as memory is limited. Keep that in mind when posting.
  • Other stuff might have not gone according to plan during the move. If you notice something, post about it and, if it's a problem I can confirm, I'll hopefully be able to fix it.
Otherwise, enjoy!
    Working fine for me so far ?
      Could not see anything until now ?
        Awesome! Thanks for posting!
          I can see everything again now, except classified: "501 Not Implemented".
            Julian Emdon (LooneyAtTheGate) wrote: I can see everything again now, except classified: "501 Not Implemented".
            Hmm, it's loading for me, although some of the pics don't show.
              Oh wait, I see the "Not Implemented" error when I click individual ads! Thanks for the heads-up!
                The site content does download noticeably faster now.
                  Thanks for the trouble - all seems good to me so far
                    Groovy, it was tough spending all of last night without GFSA but somehow I survived until the morning and all is fine now.

                    I do get the occasional problem where I click on a link and find it takes me to a page that doesn't exist. In all instances the URL is exactly right except for it starting on www2 as opposed to www. When I reload the page it seems to sort itself out or, in the cases where it wouldn't, I could just manually replace the www2 with www and it worked.

                    That said, I only saw that early this morning, haven't been seeing it in the last hour or two.
                      Julian Emdon (LooneyAtTheGate) wrote: I can see everything again now, except classified: "501 Not Implemented".
                      Now that I've looked properly I also get this. And I don't see members' avatar pic thingies next to their posts.
                        Thanks for all the feedback guys!

                        www2 issue should be sorted as of right now!

                        Well done for picking up the missing avatars! I didn't notice that at all! Working on that now.
                          Avatars sorted!

                          The speed is so lovely! It makes fixing the site go really quick! (And I'm such a geek!)
                            Psean wrote:
                            Julian Emdon (LooneyAtTheGate) wrote: I can see everything again now, except classified: "501 Not Implemented".
                            Now that I've looked properly I also get this. And I don't see members' avatar pic thingies next to their posts.

                            I get the 501 on individual classifieds, and some avatars dont load, others do though!
                            Lots faster from what i can tell! Thanks Norio ?
                              Norman86 wrote: I get the 501 on individual classifieds, and some avatars dont load, others do though!
                              Everyone will get this. It's a server issue. Waiting for word back from my host.
                              Norman86 wrote: Lots faster from what i can tell! Thanks Norio ?
                              Gotta love it, huh?
                                i've got the need... the need for speed ?

                                Awesome!! ?
                                  :woohoo: Much faster... great Norio, thanks.
                                    Norio,

                                    No pop ups on PM's... even though it was previously enabled... will check if it still is...

                                    Nevermind, seems it was firefox blocking the pop up!
                                      Even on my pisswilly connection it feels much better.
                                        Awesome stuff! Glad you guys n gal (hehe) are enjoying it!