Server Migration Completed...

[X0rby]

On 10/21/2023 at 12:18 PM, jackyjask said:

@Teddy Rogers  There is still some (rare?) bug on forum that I just hit

symptoms:

I've composed a reply, pressed Submit button, but then nothing was added - just the same page

when I hit to reply again the forum shows me old text I tried to append - but the story ended up in the same manner - nothing added

I was very curious what the hell and here is my finding - as you see for some reason froum replies with 403 error on my try:

the location when I tried this:  

 

Bro is using light theme 💀

[boot]

Hello, @Teddy Rogers. May I ask why this offline upgrade took longer than before and what adjustments have been made to the forum?

Edited August 7 by boot

[Kurapica]

2 hours ago, boot said:

Hello, @Teddy Rogers. May I ask why this offline upgrade took longer than before and what adjustments have been made to the forum?

As in every update, We got rid of the old bugs and got a new list of bugs.

[Teddy Rogers]

3 hours ago, boot said:

May I ask why this offline upgrade took longer than before and what adjustments have been made to the forum?

Moved to a new server with better hardware and a new operating system.

There is a short and long version as to why it took so long. Short version, it was initially planned to be only a few hours of downtime. Had it been successful most people would never know there was an outage. Unfortunately it turned to shit.

Piecing together all the bullshit from the hosting company (and registrar for the primary domain) they had issues accessing and making changes to the domain to disable DNSSEC and point nameservers to the new server.

When I purchased the domain decades ago, the hosting company was in its fledgling years and the domains have been held with a relic/ legacy product of theirs. It would seem between 10 months ago (when they last made similar changes for me) and last week they have either lost access or control to make changes to the domains. This is what I have pieced together after numerous calls and online chats with them to get it resolved...

Ted.

[Kurapica]

16 hours ago, Teddy Rogers said:

Moved to a new server with better hardware and a new operating system.

There is a short and long version as to why it took so long. Short version, it was initially planned to be only a few hours of downtime. Had it been successful most people would never know there was an outage. Unfortunately it turned to shit.

Piecing together all the bullshit from the hosting company (and registrar for the primary domain) they had issues accessing and making changes to the domain to disable DNSSEC and point nameservers to the new server.

When I purchased the domain decades ago, the hosting company was in its fledgling years and the domains have been held with a relic/ legacy product of theirs. It would seem between 10 months ago (when they last made similar changes for me) and last week they have either lost access or control to make changes to the domains. This is what I have pieced together after numerous calls and online chats with them to get it resolved...

Ted.

Thanks for all your efforts and time, we appreciate your work along all these years. ❤️

[a1683]

I have learned and benefited a lot from this forum and I am happy that it is working again. Thank you for your efforts.

[jackyjask]

the *issue* you hit produced a very interesting sidetrack - a tg community!

 

[kao]

15 minutes ago, jackyjask said:

tg community!

You mean few dozens of morons asking to crack random vmprotected executable? 😁 Now that's a really valuable "comuunity"!

[Progman]

One very serious issue has occurred as a result of this upgrade.  After the upgrade, I get this bizarre notice that "Your content will need to be approved by a moderator, please contact Teddy Rogers urgently as this shows a severe upgrade error has occurred".  Otherwise, this was definitely a very nice upgrade, we'll worth the wait.  Thank you Mr. Rogers for bringing such sunny days back to the forum.

[Teddy Rogers]

It has not been a cheap year for this site relocating twice within 10 months. Some quick maths would have costs currently sitting around $7K+ USD all up... 😢

Ted.

[X0rby]

@teddy where's the dark theme?

[Teddy Rogers]

40 minutes ago, X0rby said:

@teddy where's the dark theme?

I disabled it as default for a while, should be default again.

If you scroll to the bottom of the page and under "Themes" select Bravo...

Ted.