My local scca club is apparently moving sites. scca-susq.com is the old site. It's been down for weeks. No one cared that we didn't have it up to host the live timing from a local event last week. All archived results are gone, etc. I brought the issue up and was told the site migration takes time. Its been two weeks. How long should this take? Kind of embarassed on behalf of my region honestly, considering we didn't have any live timing for an actual points event.
Depends on the size of the data, how complex the site is, and how well-planned the move was...2 weeks sounds insane though. I moved a smallish forum running on some fairly troublesome software with a few hours of work over 2 days, and that included migrating the DNS hosting. IIRC most of that was caused by a weird settings issue that involved waiting for support on the new host's end.
Edit: I remember now, it wasn't actually running the PHP version it showed as selected in the customer's web management UI. I tried contacting support about it but eventually found the problem by fiddling with it myself. And years ago I'd seen basically the same problem with the same hosting provider.
Another thought, perhaps by "migrate" they don't mean just moving the site to new hosting, but to a new version of the web software or server software? That can take a lot longer especially if it wasn't well-planned.
One time I had to write an app to migrate a site between two surprisingly different types of SQL database, which involved writing a migration app that ideally would only run once (I think it took 2 or 3 attempts in the end) and modifying the site to handle some differences between the two databases. That one took a decent chunk of my working hours for over a month but actual downtime was almost nothing because the site could continue running on the old database until it was time to switch over.
In reply to GameboyRMH :
Yep. Depending on who's throwing the word "migration" around it raises a ton of questions and provides almost no context.
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