12oclockhigh.net is closing!

bada said:

Luftwaffe and Allied Air Forces Discussion Forum - Announcements in Forum : Luftwaffe and Axis Air Forces

Luftwaffe and Allied Air Forces discussion forum

forum.12oclockhigh.net

12oclockhigh.net is closing end this month.
Again, a gold mine of information will disappear

I lost my user/password more than 15 years ago.
Would be a shame to let it disappear like other WW2 fora's. Does someone have an access to it?
If yes, could someone ask Ruy Horta the total size of the forum, maybe i could host it as "consultable" Forum like i did for wwiiaircraftperformance.
Thanks.

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GrauGeist said:

Send them a message from the "contact us" link at the bottom of the page.

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Alex Smart said:

Sadly as far as I know and for reasons unknown Ruy has not responded to any of the offers of help or requests to take over the forum. So looks a bit selfish, "It's my forum and nobody else is taking it from me". Result thousands of historic information messages will be forever gone.
Hopefully someone will start a new forum where all those questions will eventually be asked again .

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Alex Smart said:

Sadly as far as I know and for reasons unknown Ruy has not responded to any of the offers of help or requests to take over the forum. So looks a bit selfish, "It's my forum and nobody else is taking it from me". Result thousands of historic information messages will be forever gone.
Hopefully someone will start a new forum where all those questions will eventually be asked again .

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Dear all,

Unless something significant changes I'll keep the forum running as is for at least the end of this year.

With significant I mean:

1. Major increase in cost
2. Provider will end legacy support
3. We have upgraded the forum
4. Other, like migration elsewhere

So now it is a matter of finding an upgrade path before the end of the year.
Last week I was too busy with work related stuff, including the weekends, but I'll have more time in the upcoming period.

Current direction of thought

1. Verify upgrade path
2. Get license for upgrade
3. Test upgrade
4. Upgrade

Keeping in mind that the latest version of vBulletin is supposedly capable of directly upgrading the dbase to the latest version. However we are running PHP 5.3 on extended support, whereas the current version is 8.4 (recommended 8.3). The provider has tools for the PHP upgrade itself (it is just config). What matters is how to upgrade vBulletin and its dbase.

Last but not least there might be some non standard components that will not play nice during an upgrade.

So long story short I will need some help from someone with a bit more experience with dbase migrations, and ideally vBulletin updates.

PS - the legacy support for PHP 5.3 might not last until the end of the year, as it is the oldest listed version.

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