DIY FAQ & Wiki - hosting migration

Grunff · 2008-08-08T20:21:23+00:00

Hi all,As some of you will remember, I currently host the DIY FAQ and Wiki. The server they are currently on needs to undergo some maintenance, and as such I need to migrate both sites to a new server.The FAQ is easy - it's small, and takes no time at all.The Wiki is a monster - the database alone is over 400Mb, plus another few hundred Mb in image files.I'd like to get the migration done this weekend. To this end, I request that no changes are made to the sites (including adding/editing Wiki content) from tonight until Monday night. Any changes made will be lost!I've emailed Phil about this, and he's ready to repoint the domains as soon as I'm done.I hope this doesn't inconvenience anyone, and expect normal service to be resumed shortly. No site downtime is anticipated. I will post a notice on this thread once the migration is complete.

Aug 08, 2008 42 Replies

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Phil Addison 17 years ago

See my comments to DL's post.

The pdf content is identical to a plain text dump, but I have done a fair bit of work on it since that outline which is a few years old. I'll hopefully complete a new version over the next couple of days and see what you think of it.

Rather than downloading the doc, I just dbl-click on the url and it opens in word; you might get better luck with that, otherwise I can mail you the current in-work version. If d/l-ing it you have to treat it as a binary file not txt, maybe thats the prob. I prolly have my puter setup for firefox to open docs in word rather than wordpad.

Phil

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Phil Addison 17 years ago

By 'fully expanded' I simply meant that is showing everything that is in the document, i.e. nothing folded as can be done in the MS doc version. Its basically the same as a txt version.

I'm not claiming the hierarchy in it is either complete or the best one, it was just given as a proposal for others to comment on - no one did!! :( This was some time ago.

I just started at the top level and drilled down through the tasks subdividing as seemed appropriate. I figure the best hierarchy is one where you minimize the number of tasks that could fit into more than one place.

Best to postpone that decision. A good hierarchy will have the branches more or less equal sized, so if you find one section drilling down a lot deeper than others its probably time to re-think if the higher levels could be done better.

If you don't go deep enough you have a category spilling over several screens, e.g. with only 1 category (the diy wiki) you would have 384 linear items.

Phil

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meow2222 17 years ago

Alright, let me keep it short: if you post it in plain text, which is a file with .txt ending, I'll see what I can do.

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