Upcoming service disruptions! December 2024

[xantia_v6]

Over the next month I will need to take the forum offline a few times in preparation to a move to a new hosting company. The current company has been providing very good service at a good price for the last 10 years, but have decided to shut down rather than upgrade to more modern hardware.

We have selected a new hosting company which has offered a better, faster, bigger VPS at a slightly higher cost (which we can afford).

I intend to do all the maintenance and testing in the window of 00:00 to 05:00 UK time, on about 2 nights per week, with the intention of having the move complete by 20/12/2024. I won't be giving any further notice of outages which fall into those windows.

[xantia_v6]

Due to some (self-inflicted) difficulties in getting the new server configured, and an upcoming holiday, I won't be switching over to the new server until the first week of January 2025. I may still take the existing server offline for brief periods of testing.

[xantia_v6]

I have now moved the forum to the new server. Almost everything should be working normally (and a little quicker ).
There may be some issues with images not displaying properly in some old (>5 years) posts. I need to do some more testing of that.
Let me know if you spot any other changes to the forum behaviour.

[xantia_v6]

I have the impression that some pages have a delay during loading. I am investigating this.

[CitroJim]

I have the impression that some pages have a delay during loading. I am investigating this.

I saw that happen early this morning Mike but now (0750GMT) all is nice and fast...

I did find submitting a reply to a long thread took a while...

EDIT: This reply submitted at the expected rapid speed

[xantia_v6]

It is sometimes difficult to judge from here due to the long response times, but I have had a couple of responses take several seconds.
The BXC forum running on the same server does not seem to have the same issues.

[Paul-R]

Huuuuge lack of response to any buttons tapped on (on my phone - haven't switched my laptop on yet) and failure to refresh pages. And then it's OK again.

Also had to log in again as the cookies were presumably different.

[Paul-R]

Laptop is much better although response doesn't seem to be as immediate as it used to be. Almost as if the system is taking a short intake of breath before responding.

I didn't need to log in again though.

[myglaren]

All appears to be OK here.

[myglaren]

And then it died

[Paul-R]

Just had a looooong delay (blank page and the spinning wheel of doom) during a forum search which ultimately failed and dumped me back without a result.

[Hell Razor5543]

I tried a refresh, and it took around 30 seconds. A later attempt ended up timing out.

[Paul-R]

Watching paint dry has become a sprint contest compared to the site at times!

[myglaren]

I was beginning to think the same but it was the interweb on strike again.
Drops out regularly

[CitroJim]

For me currently, often OK and sometimes slow... Responding to posts can be a bit variable...