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[Jon]

I'm doing backups and all sorts of things in the background. Performance will be poor.

 

[isladogs]

Just a thought?
Is it possible for you to show an announcement on the main screen to advise members what is going on?

 

[Jon]

Great idea!

 

[isladogs]

I saw the announcement but its disappeared again.

 

[Jon]

Took a backup of the forums last night. This caused some issues with the mysql backend. Just got that fixed. All 8 of my sites are now backed up to my PC, as well as the weekly backups that my host takes.

Also, while digging around in the code, and pruning things, I discovered some base64 hacker code, which was created a long long time ago. That has been removed.

Over 12 hours yesterday of doing backups, sorting out issues blah blah to 1am. Urgggh! I was actually dreaming about server related stuff last night as I slept!

 

[Grumm]

Glad you got the forum back up and running
Awesome work !!!

 

[NauticalGent]

I was actually dreaming about server related stuff last night as I slept!

One tends to forget that nightmares are dreams too...

 

[isladogs]

Many thanks for your hard work Jon.
Its a lot faster loading pages though, as you're probably aware, there are still issues posting new content/replies

 

[Jon]

I am aware of the issues, but I cannot take any action yet for reasons I do not want to make public. Eventually, I hope to get everything sorted.

 

[Jon]

Expect more downtime over the next 3 days, but it will be for the long term good of the forums.

 

[Jon]

I've identified the mysql database problem to be something about a sessions table. I just deleted the contents of it and the last couple of days posts have gone. It will take me some time to try to find a solution to this recurrent problem, but at least you can get access to the site.

 

[Jon]

I've been updating some plugins, and other changes. So, expect the board to be on and off for a while. I will keep it on as long as I can.

 

[Deleted member 147267]

FYI: performance on my side of the pond is much, much better.

 

[Jon]

@Micron, do you mean compared to before the change of host?

 

[Deleted member 147267]

I think so. Not sure exactly when that was. Can only say that it's much better than what it was before this thread started - as in when someone first reported that we were getting the 503 (or whatever it was) error page. Does that help?

 

[Jon]

We supposedly have nearly 1000 guests on the forum right now, which I recon must be bots, because Sunday's are normally quiet. But in any case, whatever they are, the forums are barely breaking a sweat. And I still haven't setup litespeed and its cache.

I think we should be good from this point forwards.

 

[Weekleyba]

Thanks Jon for getting everything back up and working!

 

[pbaldy]

Agreed, thanks Jon!

 

[isladogs]

Thanks again Jon. All now seems to be working well

 

[Gasman]

Jon, I've sent you an email re possibly another problem, not related to the forums.?
The first one bounced, so just in case.