Far from it . WAAAAY too busy to read every thing. just give me the TL/DR
I could give you a prĆ©cis of āA brief history of time ā ? . As I understand it Forumosa may be down for a week or so in May for the changes . The World as we know it may survive , but I canāt promise anything 
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Please close it during Computex. Thatās when my focus on the forum is at its lowest.
A Forumosa cleanse will be good for all of us, I think. Itās healthy to unplug every now and then.
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Kind of like Colonic Irrigation , you mean ?
You probably should use https instead of http, and why donāt you put 301s from the old to the new domain ?
Also, why do you not configure the dns records for www prior to making the changes on the server?
I donāt see any reason why you couldnāt change the domain with 0 downtimeā¦
Thank you for the questions. I will aim to secure the new server with SSL. I will also look up what you mean by using 301 Redirects (I found this! https://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/7430/what-is-a-301-redirect-and-why-should-you-care.aspx) although I am unsure how much I can use them since the redirection needed is from the current Discourse.org hosted http://tw forums ā I cannot access anything on this server itself and can only manage the admin backend of our Discourse installation.
This is precisely what we decided to do at the last minute. But I also want to move the domain name registration to a new registrar, which is something I have wanted to do for a long time. So, we need to understand what we need to do before proceeding and then find/make the time to do it
Ideally, we do minimize or even eliminate the downtime. Stay tuned 
I just saw this. @GooseEgg, you donāt need access to your current server to do a 301 redirect on your new server. The domain will resolve to your new server, so you do the redirection in your .htaccess file there. Itās actually pretty easy, though Iām not familiar with the Discourse database and it might screw something up. Also, no one uses the Ws anymore and servers are usually set to direct to a site with or without them. Odd jobs like this I usually outsource to tech people in India or the Philippines, usually from Upwork. Discourse looks complicated. Iāve never worked with Rails applications at all. Changing from a app-dedicated managed host to a private server can be a headache, so I hope you are working with good people who know what theyāre doing.
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Seamless transitions are one of the beautiful aspects of the Internet.
Thereās no need for any downtime at all.
Can you also fix this error in the CSS? Just change http:// to https://
Mixed Content: The page at āhttps://tw.forumosa.com/ā was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure stylesheet āhttp://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Cookieā. This request has been blocked; the content must be served over HTTPS.
Is this part of the new system?
āBody seems unclear, is it a complete sentence?ā
Do I have to make sense to the fakebrain before it allows me to post? 
Yes.
bhla
works great. 
Which part of May is the transition happening? The done part or the shrinking future part?
Thanks for asking. The shrinking future part. I hope.
We ran into hiccups (silver lining: weāve learned a ton) and hopefully this will mean a greater chance that we shorten or eliminate downtime. We have successfully done a migration, meaning we have restored a back up on a new server at a different URL that is also a root URL, not a sub.domain. Next up is doing the real thing.
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I think the after part.
Gambatte!
Was this ever done?
nope