I have it pretty much planned.
1. Moving data to new host.
2. New forum points to the same database. That means you can post on any of the two forums, it's practically the same.
3. Change the DNS of
chaos-project.com. At one point it will point at the new server, people won't ever notice the difference. DNS changes take from 24 up to 72 hours.
4. Take the forum down for a few minutes, download the database, upload it on the new host and make the forum point to the new location.
5. Done.
The thing is just that I doubt that I will be able to do that as I don't know the SQL server of our current host. -_- That means most probably it'll go like this:
1. Moving data to new host.
2. Take the forum down for a few minutes, download the database, upload it on the new host and make the forum point to the new location.
3. Make
forum.chaos-project.com show a message with a temporary location of the new host (it'll be most probably
cproject.99k.org and/or
blizzard.110mb.com) until the DNS is updated.
4. When the DNS gets updated, it's done.
This will go through without a downtime as well, but I want to spare people clicking at the redirection link if I can. -_-
If I have to change the server twice (once temporarily, once for real), then this will have to happen twice which I want to avoid. It depends on my friend. If I can talk to her in the next couple of days, there won't be a temporary host. If not, I'll have to talk to her later and have to use a temporary host so all the data doesn't get lost. -_-