Michael Kinney
Member
While IT literate, I'm not technical savvy enough to manage my own site, so I use VPS managed services through a host.
My current issue is one that my host cannot solve, and they have been an uncooperative partner since changing ownership about a year ago. I've recently switched hosts, but my issue isn't necessarily with a host, it's with an issue in upgrading our gaming community to X2.
We've had a X1 gaming site for years (www.tenaciousgamers.com), and in early 2018, we built a test site (www.tenaciousgamers.com/xen2) to configure our Xenforo2 upgrade and also to get rid of legacy X1 add ons and install X2 installs and also a X2 theme.
The issue really is that life happens, and because of various circumstances, it took us about 2 years, on and off here and there when we had time, to finish configuring our test site to how we wanted it. We installed and tested all of our X2 add ons and installed and configured a Xen2 theme.
Fast forward to 2020 and we wanted to complete our upgrade, not realizing that we would lose all of the forums and information on our community site that had been collected and posted over that 2 year span. If we launch our test site as our main site now, it only has forum posts and information up to when we first started the test site in 2018.
My question is: Do we have to start all over, or is there a way to launch our test site as our upgraded main site and include the last 2 years worth of forum posts and information?
My current issue is one that my host cannot solve, and they have been an uncooperative partner since changing ownership about a year ago. I've recently switched hosts, but my issue isn't necessarily with a host, it's with an issue in upgrading our gaming community to X2.
We've had a X1 gaming site for years (www.tenaciousgamers.com), and in early 2018, we built a test site (www.tenaciousgamers.com/xen2) to configure our Xenforo2 upgrade and also to get rid of legacy X1 add ons and install X2 installs and also a X2 theme.
The issue really is that life happens, and because of various circumstances, it took us about 2 years, on and off here and there when we had time, to finish configuring our test site to how we wanted it. We installed and tested all of our X2 add ons and installed and configured a Xen2 theme.
Fast forward to 2020 and we wanted to complete our upgrade, not realizing that we would lose all of the forums and information on our community site that had been collected and posted over that 2 year span. If we launch our test site as our main site now, it only has forum posts and information up to when we first started the test site in 2018.
My question is: Do we have to start all over, or is there a way to launch our test site as our upgraded main site and include the last 2 years worth of forum posts and information?
