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Polaris Files _ PolarisFiles.com info and news _ Moving to new server, may be some downtime

Posted by: erick Jan 5 2007, 09:59 AM

We will be moving this site to a new server this afternoon. There will be some downtime as we need to switch IP Addresses for the site. You'll want to be sure to flush your DNS cache on your computer and / or restart it. I will try to make things go as smoothly as possible. After we move, we should not see those PHP errors any longer and things should be generally faster than before.

Posted by: erick Jan 8 2007, 05:43 PM

As I said before, we are moving to a new server. This is now completed. Some of you may still be surfing the forum on the old server. If so, you'll need to flush your DNS and/or wait for your ISP to refresh their DNS cache.

To flush your DNS cache on windows XP follow these steps.

Go to start -> Run and type in "cmd", hit enter.
In the black box type "ipconfig /flushdns", hit enter. It will give you a message telling you that the computer has flushed the DNS cache. After this, restart your computer for good measure. If your ISP doesn't have the DNS cached, you should now be surfing the forum on the new server and should no longer see the PHP access violations.

If you continue to have problems, please let me know by sending an email to: erick@snowmobilefanatics.com and I will help you out as best I can. Again, I apologize but these errors got very bad just recently so that why I had to move the site.

Posted by: erick Jan 8 2007, 07:32 PM

Here is an example of me doing an IP flush on my computer running Windows XP.

Posted by: Switchrider Jan 10 2007, 02:53 PM

Who runs this site? Is this a Polaris sponsored site? I just came here from HCS and so far I really like it!

Posted by: erick Jan 10 2007, 07:29 PM

I run this site. I do not work for Polaris. I simply work with them so that they have their own section of the forum but their responses to date in that part of the forum have been less than desirable. It is understandable though...the person responsible is very busy. Hopefully we can figure out something more efficient for the future.

Posted by: rozo jr Jan 11 2007, 09:16 AM

I like what I see so far Erick. Keep up the good work!!

Posted by: erick Jan 11 2007, 10:20 AM

Thanks! I like your avatar image. You should post the full sized one!

Posted by: 01PROX600 Jan 11 2007, 11:29 AM

Erick, nice job so far. Just wondering was this site ever merged with SF, then you brought it back out on its own?

Posted by: erick Jan 11 2007, 12:02 PM

It was in the past. A little over a year ago this place started out fresh.

Posted by: rozo jr Jan 12 2007, 09:55 AM

Quite possibly my favorite brochure photo ever. As a kid, I spent countless hours drooling over it. It's my wall paper also...

Posted by: awall811 Jan 23 2007, 07:26 PM

why does the snowmobile section not work anymore, i followed to procedure for flushing my dns and it still didnt fix the problem whats going on here?

Posted by: awall811 Feb 1 2007, 09:36 AM

anyone?

Posted by: erick Feb 2 2007, 12:26 AM

It should work now, at least for the time being. I did a quick little workaround.