Today was a busy day for D&Co du Milieu.
If you tried to visit the website this morning (EU time), you may have noticed that it was in maintenance mode (or not working at all).
That was expected and announced last night because I was doing some work on the servers, but also on other stuff that I will talk about a bit more below.
Oh, and if you read this post until the end, you may find a nice surprise for those who already bought the Ultimate Umbar expansion pack or those who are hesitating to buy it.
New Server
So, the work I did over the last few days was mainly to copy/past every single website file and database table from one server to another.
Why changing the server? Well, because I bought a shiny new one for work, that is more powerful and runs on SSD.
In the end, I hope that it will speed up the website a bit and that it will facilitate my work on D&Co.
New Domain (URL)
If you look at your URL bar right now, you’ll see that you’re not on “en.dcodumilieu.fr” anymore but on “dcodumilieu.com” instead.
I’ve decided that the server transfer was the best time to fix that old address that I created years ago and that has always annoyed me.
“EN.dcodumilieu.FR” … EN for English, and then FR for French?! Seriously Yao?!
Well, it’s now fixed. The French website can be reached on dcodumilieu.fr, and the English one on dcodumilieu.com.
Don’t worry, if you use the old link or if you see old links leading to D&Co du Milieu on other websites, I also added a redirection so that your browser will automatically replace the old address by the new one.
New Teleport Housing Item from Umbar
We already got everything we needed concerning the Umbar expansion packs on different posts, with pictures of cosmetics and other things.
BUT there were no pictures of the new housing item coming with the Ultimate pack. Problem solved, thanks to Cordovan & SSG who kindly gave me something to share with the housing community:
To conclude, many changes happened in the back-end of the site, but not many for you in the front-end even if I’m hoping that the new servers will improve the overall performance of D&Co.
There could be some bugs here and there, like pictures not loading or stuff like that, so PLEASE, use the bug report tool that you can find on each page to report any problem you find.
That’s all for today folks!
~Yao