Downtime Due To Server & Dns Changes

[shimmerz]

Oh boy, I know what this feels like. Server upgrades can be hell. Best of luck in sorting out the bits and pieces.

 

[Silver.]

am I the only one where the loading page indicator keeps showing it is loading? (making it a bit trickier to click on the alerts and mail tab)? I am using my pc
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of course, being in computers, I figured a work around to make it stop for me, but it only works on the current page, and will pop up again if I move, so I just keep doing the workaround (which doesn't seem too sensible)

 

[anthony]

am I the only one where the loading page indicator keeps showing it is loading?

Not seeing it. It shows, then hides once loaded. Have you dropped caches to obtain the latest file versions?

Within the USA, the site should be extremely zippy, as its hosted on the East coast. Outside the USA is where cloud flare really comes into it, caching content for users much closer to their location than the East coast of USA.

 

[anthony]

Watermarking fixed. One down, several issues to go.

 

[anthony]

Ads fixed.... performance improved as a result of that issue.

 

[Chitoshi]

Thank you for all your hard work, anthony. :)

 

[Deleted member 12723]

Thank you so much @anthony for all of the work and hassles you have gone through to maintain this site for us. I really appreciate the gift of being here so much appreciation.

 

[anthony]

Ok, after monitoring stats for a day, decision is made that one more lot of downtime is required, later today my time. About 30 minutes will be needed.

East coast: 5am 12th.
West coast: 2am 12th.
UK: 10am 12th
Australia: 7pm East coast, 5pm West coast today.

The WORST thing you can do is to keep refreshing your page every x minutes. You will likely lock yourself out, even during downtime, as we have DNS firewalls in place. Leave it 10 minutes between refreshes.

 

[Missycat]

@anthony - thanks for the update and all the work you have done. I nearly had a melt down the other day when i kept getting an error message re the server not connecting and safari not 'trusting the site'. I will stay awar until well after 10am to avoid any stress.
Thanks again - this site is awesome.
MC

 

[anthony]

Ok, the flag issue is now fixed, with cloud flare passing the real IP to the server for accurate management of users IP's.

 

[anthony]

Slight update to the above with bold warning.

 

[pixel]

Anthony, thank you for your hard work!

Myself & many people here greatly appreciate it :)