Soon we will be renewing our hosting package, we are currently EUKhost, i would like to see if anyone has ideas where we could move to, we have just under 20GB data attachments.
We currently pay around £150 a year for hosting and Certificate.
It would also be great to upgrade the forum software at the same time.
So looking for options, also the UK and EU are restricting free speech to also needs to be taken into account, freedom of speech within reason etc.
A shared hosting (not a VPS server, which would be better) costs this much per year here (https://www.mydevil.net/nasza-oferta/):
25GB £21
50GB £42
100GB £84
200GB £168
These are promotional prices till the end of the month (with VAT).
would it be cheaper and maybe better to host here in the US?
mags
I use namecheap for mine.
https://www.namecheap.com/hosting/shared/?purchase_type=paid&period=p2y
I use digital ocean for my AI servers. More exe than what your looking at $240/y. Can I suggest fronting it with the free CF version. You'll have bot control, caching, ddos protection for free.
Quote from: JimBoot on 2026.08.19, 02:10:33
I use digital ocean for my AI servers. More exe than what your looking at $240/y. Can I suggest fronting it with the free CF version. You'll have bot control, caching, ddos protection for free.
What NV storage limit ?
What RAM limit ?
What inode limit ?
What CPU limit ?
What speed limit?
What bandwidth limit?
What I/O limit ?
What Entry Processes limit ?
What NPROC limit ?
What backup frequency ?
What database engines and PHP interpreters are provided ?
How many cron jobs are allowed ?
Is sendmail allowed ?
Is SSH access allowed ?
How much is it?
I've used spaceship.com which is likely the lowest price and has extremely good AI help for setup.
I would also highly recommend cloudflare.com as it is huge, always improving and also has some of the best prices around.
Cheers guys ;)
I'm looking and Mulling things over. Still not sure yet.
I've had some pretty bad things happen in the past, our original hosting company was in US and they went bust, couldn't get hold of anyone, they disappeared over night, couldn't log in to domain name or hosting, luckily they sold their customers to another company and eventually managed to transfer out.
I then split the domain and hosting to different US companies, then some strange things started happening, i think it was hostgator, i couldnt reach the website from the UK, having done a trace route i was being blocked from accessing the website to even managed it, Hostgator couldnt resolve the problem as the website was working but just not for me or parts of Europe, so ended up moving to UK hosting, luckily the UK hosting company was able to transfer everything as i still could not reach the website.
I dont see a problem with shared hosting, that is what we've always had.
Looks like we will be moving server to Poland, thanks for the suggestions O0
From a politics point of view i think this is actually a lot safer than most developed countries.
We have purchased and moved to a polish MyDevil host now, we transferred OUR forum over and is in the process of upgrading the database, ultimately to upgrade the forum to the newest version, there will be changes to how the forum looks and works, the current setup will no longer work once the upgrade is finished and therefore we will have a new layout.
I will try to keep members informed as we do things on this thread.
Currently we have switched but the forum layout is the same, your browser may take a while to pick up the new layout, you can tell if you are on the MyDevil server because the main logo up top has a red led towards the right side of the oscilloscope image, if you don't see that you can force by clearing/refreshing your browser cache.
The new theme will allow you to select the themes color system there are 6 light and 6 dark Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, Purple, Pink,you can select for your own preference, we will need to create top OUR logos for each color system.
Also we will be adding a speech Chat system hosted by the forum. This is a secure encrypted Mumble voice-chat server. There are MS-Windows, Linux, Android and IOS versions of the client, allowing people to login and speak to other logged in members.
If you have any issues especially speed / web site loading issues then post any problems on this thread please. O0
I would like to add a special thanks to admin for doing this, it's time consuming and he is doing this using his own time free.
Quote from: Peterae on 2026.09.07, 18:42:11
I would like to add a special thanks to admin for doing this, it's time consuming and he is doing this using his own time free.
Yes, Cheers to Verpies!
Not that it is a big deal, but will the email client hosting be working again with the new host? This is something that worked long ago, but was lost after an upgrade if I recall.
Quote from: poynt99 on 2026.09.07, 21:54:37
Not that it is a big deal, but will the email client hosting be working again with the new host? This is something that worked long ago, but was lost after an upgrade if I recall.
Yes, after the upgrade to SMF v2.1.7.
I could repair it now on v2.0.18 but I do not want to do the work twice.
Thanks Verpies!
whoaa my cache updated!! dark mode AND comic sans for edit mode is very nice. Great work.
If anyone is having problems or dislikes about certain things on this forum please post them here and we can look at them.
Thanks O0
Peter
One question
The front page topic list is getting scrolled out of view by individual replies to the same topics
With consecutive posts...
At the moment there are ten posts in one topic "DC to DC transformer" and ten separate lines down the page..
Edit9/11/26
I see the above comment is no longer relevant !
We are most fortunate to have such amazing Zeal and talent in this open source community!
Special thanks to Verpies for all his time and efforts !!
Quote from: Chet K on 2026.09.10, 21:34:13The front page topic list is getting scrolled out of view by individual replies to the same topics
The "Recent List" has been altered to list only the newest post of each topic.
Squeaky wheel gets the oil.
Tremendous work, great result, much appreciated, thanks verpies O0
Itsu
You can finally do what you wanted, too.
When you press the "Reply" button and upload an image, you can embed that image in your post without it appearing twice:
Embed_img.png
When you do that, the result is as depicted below and the image does not appear in the uploaded files list below the message but is attached to the massage nonetheless and visible in the body of the message.
Lorentz_Carousel_Capcoil.gif
The image above is attached to this message yet it appears inline with the body of the message and not in the attached files list. This sentence is a part of the message, too. It illustrates that the message has not ended yet.
The "width=123" modifier still works, too.
Because this message has an attachment it appears with a paper clip in the "Recent Posts" list on the home page.
...and this post has the same image attached to it but not embedded inline.
This is the last sentence of this message....
That is great, it is much more convenient than the old way:
new build finished small.png
Easy peasy O0
Itsu
Quote from: poynt99 on 2026.09.07, 21:54:37Not that it is a big deal, but will the email client hosting be working again with the new host?
This is something that worked long ago, but was lost after an upgrade if I recall.
Done. The forum now sends emails correctly.
Brilliant Thanks verpies, i also love the like button O0
Merle is asking if there's a possibility of adding a home button at the bottom of each page?
Cheers Graham.
There is a go up button bottom right and a go down button top left
Quote from: Grumage on 2026.09.13, 12:38:41Merle is asking if there's a possibility of adding a home button at the bottom of each page?
In a way there is one already if you click on the "OverUnity Research" button which I marked with red ellipse in the following screenshot. This will take you to the top of the Home Page.
Also, the "GO UP" button above it will take you to the top of the current page.
Home_button.png
using the login on this page fails. That is a fill out the login information and click on "login"
https://www.overunityresearch.com/
but clicking on the link upper right side to log in sends me to this page
https://www.overunityresearch.com/index.php?action=login
which I can login from.
Quote from: webby1 on 2026.09.14, 09:38:53using the login on this page fails. That is a fill out the login information and click on "login"
https://www.overunityresearch.com/
but clicking on the link upper right side to log in sends me to this page
https://www.overunityresearch.com/index.php?action=login
which I can login from.
Strange i can log in from both ok.I wonder if your cache needs clearing or your password is being remembered differently for each page.
Firefox on Debian,, and this time I am using Chrome,, same issue session authentication failed,, but if I click on the login link and go there it works,, strange.
Click on the eye icon next to the password field, see if it is correct.
yes, correct password is auto filled in.
What does you Network tab show in the Development tools of your browser (F12) after you refresh the page ?
these are the different things,, when I click on the login icon on the upper right hand side it flips around a little bit and looks the same but it works.
So by "not working" I guess you mean the message "An error has occurred: Session verification failed. Please go back and try again." and the absence of the username and password fields.
What URL did you enter before you were redirected to "www.overunityresearch.com/index.php?action=login2" ?
Make sure you include every character in the originating URL.
I need to know the GET request that leads to this and the protocol (http or https).
e.g.: if you follow a link to O.U.R. from a Google search - that link contains the GET request and I need to know it.
If you have some kind of bookmark or icon on your device that opens this forum, then I need to know what GET request gets sent by clicking this bookmark or icon.
Statements like "I just hit the page" or "I just open the forum" do not help at all.
my bookmark is https://www.overunityresearch.com/
I looked at the source but do not see anything strange looking
I do see a few hidden tokens and I am assuming that it is something along those lines.
Today I hit the login, it failed and I then clicked on the return or whatever it is as an option, then it reloaded the page, I hit the login button again, with all my info auto filled, and it logged me in.
I quickly logged out and then back in and I logged in the first time,, no failure.
I cleared my cache and closed the browser and tried to log in and it failed, clicked the back button on that failed screen and then hit the login button again and I am logged in again.
Quote from: webby1 on 2026.09.22, 02:10:50I cleared my cache and closed the browser and tried to log in and it failed, clicked the back button on that failed screen and then hit the login button again and I am logged in again.
I have that same problem on my smart phone but not on my PC. I just accept it as quirk.
there are a few tokens and hashes that I assume are the issue,, probably some kind of verification maybe??