PRIME business club

STOP PRESS: We have now made the switchover. We are running this web site at a new hosting firm (called Media Temple). We hope you notice a general improvement in speed, but more importantly, experience no sudden drops in speed or loss of service.

We made the change because our previous arrangements were not good at handling peaks in traffic when lots of visitors arrive simultaneously. This can happen when PRIME receives a mention in the media or is actively promoting several events. Since we have a lot of activity planned for the Autumn, we decided to make the changeover now so the web site will be able to cope with the anticipated rise in demand.

You may notice primebusinessclub.co.uk now shows in the browser address bar. Both www.primebusinessclub.com and www.primebusinessclub.co.uk point at exactly the same pages, so it doesn’t matter which name you type in. Previous bookmarks you may have saved to particular places on the site should all still work.

There are two things that we know are not working properly yet. The text-to-speech feature that lets you listen to an item works on some pages but not others, and the forums are not working at all. These are the two areas where we anticipated difficulties and they may take some time to fix.

Please let us know if there are any other things are broken and we’ll add them to the list. But overall we hope you find the change an improvement.

ORIGINAL ITEM:

PRIME Business Club’s main web site currently at www.primebusinessclub.com will arrive on this domain name over the weekend of the 21st to 22nd of June 2008. While the work is being done this site will be incomplete.

So if you are interested in becoming self-employed or starting your own business, please go over to www.primebusinessclub.com which we’ll leave fully up and running at its old home until this site is ready.

We are moving to a new hosting firm. It’s possible that some new comments made during the move on posts and in the forums may get lost.

Disruption is likely to be worst on the forums, which are proving a nightmare to move. Fortunately the bulk of the site is done with the excellent Wordpress, so most of it should be working again soon.

Likelihood of disruption:

• Main posts, pages and links - LOW
• Text-to-speech Listen this item - MEDIUM
• Forums - HIGH

Hopefully we’ll have the system back up on Monday - without the loss of anything important.