Website moved!

The website showcaves.com has sucessfuly moved to a new provider. I did this for the first time and thought there might be some downtime, but I was able to avoid downtime completely.

The reason why I was a little nervous is the fact that the website is quite large. It took a few hours to upload the whole site.

The solution was actually quite simple, I uploaded the website first, then I transferred the domain. When I started the transfer the folder was created automatically. I simply swapped the updloaded files by renaming the two folders.

However, now it is done, the new website is up and running, the old provider is terminated. And finnally its about time: when I looked at the last invoice I mentioned the do not have an adress any more. They are now c/o at some "office space for hire" place. Have no idea how to call this. Is it a "shell company"?

In hindsight I'm glad I left.

Website moves, downtime possible...

I am using the same provider for 20 years now. They were reliable, simple to maintain and the price was acceptable. Now they replace the normal mail by Microsoft Exchange, throw away forwards, charge for mailboxes separately, increase the monthly price by 50 %. They have already increased the prices for domains considerably.

As a matter of fact the total price will be at least three times as much as I am willing to pay, about 350 € per year, but with much less comfort than before. I have no income from the website, I am personally paying for the hosting of the site and provide it for free.

As a result I decided to change my provider. I will do my best to reduce down time, but there might be a downtime nevertheless. Its possible the DNS is not working correctly for some hours. But its also possible the domain will be inaccessible for some days during the process, I have never done this before, so I do not know.

If you have problems accessing showcaves.com, please check showcaves.info. I will install a copy there before the transfer of the website.

showcaves64

My provider has updated the hosting of showcaves.com. It is now a 64 bit server, which actually makes no difference at all, you cant see the size of the words from outside ;-)

However, a new server means that any part of the server, in other words all software, was replaced by a 64 bit version. This includes web server, php, database and so on.

In other words: there is a good chance anything works as before, but if something has broken and we have not mentioned it, please send us an email with a description of the problem.

Thank you for your help!

360° Movie of Grotte de Choranche in Vercors, France

This movie is interesting, as it was filmed in 360°, which means you can look around while you are watching. Great thing to ignore the journalist ad look at the cave instead...
Its only 2:30 long, but shows all interesting things of this beautiful cave.

Kickoff

Hello Show Cave Fans,
this is the revived showcaves.com blog. I used this blog to collect show cave related news. Unfortunately I did not upgrade the software regularly, and so it was hacked and my server used to send spam emails. Fortunately my provider is quite good and stopped this pretty fast by shutting down the blog. I decided to keep it like that and deleted it.
So this is the successor, and as it is now on blogger, google cares for the updates.
I hope there will be many onteresting news in the future.
Jochen