It is now 6:17 pm (EST) on Monday, Jan 29. Hopefully, we are now done with the transition to the new server. The new URL was changed this morning to point to the new server. It took awhile for that new address to filter through to all the domain name servers on the internet. Next problem was that the SSL (secure sockets layer) certificate that I had on the old server was not transferred to the new server. That meant if you tried to access us using https, you got a warning that the sight was not secure. It certainly is secure and when the certificate was transferred over to the new server, that problem disappleared. However, while the main site worked fine, access to the forum was no longer working. Some problem with "permissions" was discovered and corrected. Finally, secure access to the forum on the new server worked, but we were missing several days of messages that were added to the old system after the forum databases were copied. There was a solution available here that re-synched the database. While that was done, I put the forum in maintenance mode. Finally, heard that forum databases were ready, but now could not access the forum at all. Another call to Lunarpages. I don't know what that problem was, but they were able to correct it in a couple of minutes.
So, I hope that we are once more up and running smoothly on the new server. Only time will tell....