Title/Job Description:
Backup, transfer and upgrade my forum from old host running 3.0.12 and old php to latest phpBB at a new host.
Target audience: (e.g. professionals, hobbyists, students)
general public of classic car owners
Reward: (e. g. money, backlinks, fame)
Money, moola, greenbacks, etc, most likely via Paypal.
Deadline:
Sept 9, 2022
Preferred contact method: (e.g. PM, e-mail)
Email: PM me here, then we'll switch to email or whatever.
Link to the board:
https://www.thelincolnforum.net/phpbb3
Detailed description of the tasks:
Download full archive backups of the HTML and SQL databases. I've had issues with images loading on my local copy running on an old PPC Mac.
HTML is about 10GB and has a problem with FTP because the server won't show more than 9999 files, so the archive had to be made via SSH or by the host then downloaded. SQL database is over 1GB, but that's with the search undeleted. I've had it down below 600MB.
Things might be complicated by Cloudfare enabled for https, but I can disable that before it starts. I'd like to eliminate Cloudfare if the newer version of phpBB supports https.
The server times out a lot (one of the reasons I want to move hosts). I don't want anything changed on the running site until it's fully transferred and running on the new host.
I plan on starting with a new host paying for one month. If all goes well, I'll prepay for 1 to 3 years and all will be well.
I'm looking for someone who has done this and just want it done as I have failed every time I tried. I am no expert. I'm barely an intermediate. Sure, the forum has been running since 2002, but I fell behind and left it since 2013 and now I'm paying the price, which is your gain. I had issues with the php limitation across the 3.0.12 to 3.3.x updates.
We don't get much traffic anymore and have no ads, no sponsors, and run solely on donations from the members and some digital sales of manuals and documents for said classic cars. Looking for a reasonable estimate.