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Hi guys,
So... taking control of this site and the associated server was quite the learning experience, as many of you remember. I know much more about how it all works and more importantly what it needs to do that work than I did when I first set this server up.
The result of that is that the server itself - the hardware and core operating system - are not very well optimized for running this forum software.
On top of that, there is a pretty large update available for the forums that I need to upload.
So... I have decided to try to upgrade the hardware at the same time. The bad part of that is there may well be as much as a hour of downtime when I do the move. There will not be any DNS issues since it will still have the same IP address, but with new hardware and new OS come new potential problems to solve, so... we will see. I will update this post when I start the process, and when its done.
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Cheers for that.
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ok, there were a shitload of updates... all done and server rebooted. Hopefully that helps.
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Been a long while since I did updates and a server reboot. I will do that now. Wont take long.
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18 minutes ago, newtimes said:
i just read it have i done something wrong??? apologies if i have
Your upgraded. No more moderation ?
Welcome to the forum. Look forward to seeing you on some of our barcrawls in Jan.
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17 minutes ago, newtimes said:
i just read it have i done something wrong??? apologies if i have
No you have not... I have just been very busy and not activated your account yet. I am doing so now... will be done by the time you read this ?
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17 minutes ago, garytheanimal said:
Just had a quick look and they're about £200 more than what we normally pay. It actually wouldn't bother me that much to get comfort, but the guy I travel with is a tight ass, lol. Thank you anyway, I'd never heard of Eva Air
Your account is now active. Welcome to the (unmoderated) forums ?
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16 minutes ago, garytheanimal said:
Fingers crossed we don't leave then.
I've tried to validate again via the email that was sent, but it's telling me my account doesn't require validation.its a secondary validation... described in a post you were sent to right after you registered. Here is a link to it:
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19 minutes ago, garytheanimal said:
Hoping that the will we won’t we with Brexit is over by next May when I go back. The first time I went it was 75 to the pound ?
Brexit is likely to make that worse, not better. At least initially.
And when you get a chance, please follow the instructions for activating your account... that will remove your posting restrictions and remove you from moderation. ?
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Board has been updated to 4.4.6, and the SSL certificate has been renewed.
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Sadly all on the bus perished and are waiting in line at the pearly gates. St Peter approaches the first girl in line.
"Mary Margaret, I have one question for you, and it is of the utmost importance that you answer truthfully. Have you ever touched a penis?"
Mary blushed a little bit. "Well, yes, I have. I once reached into a boys pants and touched his penis with the tip of my finger. But that was all."
"Very well Mary. Dip your finger into this holy water and then you may enter Heaven."
St Peter then approaches the next girl in line.
"Anne Beth, have you ever touched a penis?"
"Yes, I once reached in a boys pants and grabbed his penis."
"Very well," said St Peter "Dip your hand in holy water and enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
At this point in time there is a commotion in the back of the line, as one of the girls is pushing her way up the line.
"Katherine Anne, you need to wait till it's your turn." St Peter strictly informed the girl.
"No, I'm not staying in the back of the line. There's no way I'm rinsing my mouth out with that holy water if Karen has to wash her ass out with it first!"
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Annnnnnd.... in true Murphy fashion less than a day after upgrading our forums a new 4.4.6 update comes out... and its marked as a urgent security update. So ill be upgrading us yet again in the next day or so. I do not expect any downtime at all, same as the last one.
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The board has been updated to 4.4.5 successfully. Unpinning this topic now.
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Trying this again now... will update shortly.
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7 minutes ago, elche said:
How do we go about adding content below every post of our own that appears automatically?
I assume your talking about your Signature. Up at the top on the right, look for your username with a down arrow. Click that, click Profile... and its in there under Signature.
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Postponing this until tomorrow folks.
The server this is hosted on needs maintenance as well, and I am going to do that first. This will not create any downtime, but it will take a few hours so ill do the board update tomorrow.
Frosty
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Hi Guys,
Another security update is available for the board, and I intend on attempting to install it sometime tomorrow. With any luck the downtime will be very minimal, but you know how these things go.
Ill post here just before I start the update, and when I finish. Ill keep this post pinned until the update is complete.
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I got a notification yesterday that our SSL certificate was expiring... and totally forgot about it last night when I was online and doing that kind of thing. So it expired and we had a hour or 3 of warnings being thrown to people who visited the site. Sorry about that!
Will try to make sure that does not happen in future! Only takes me about 10 minutes to update the cert - I just totally spaced it. Getting old sucks. lol.
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8 minutes ago, Gottsy said:
Old timer here. Been going to Thailand for donkeys years and was married to a Thai for over 40 years. Sadly she died 2 years back. Thats life (or death) Her body was donated to Southampton University Hospital for the students etc. She always wanted that, to help others learn about being a doctor etc.
Ive known Thailand and Pattaya since it was pretty much a swamp (Looks like its reverted back). I've been back to Thailand, mainly Bangkok in the last few years and last October went to Pattaya for a few days. That was a shock.
I'll post later
Welcome to the forum.
I have approved your account, and removed the moderation restriction. You can post and view level 1 content at your leisure now.
If you are in town on Wednesday, consider joining us on the barcrawl starting at 8pm at LePub - introduce yourself and get access to more content on the forums. ?
Frosty
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1 hour ago, js007 said:
I was having trouble earlier today and yesterday logging on. But just a minute ago, it worked. Maybe the site goes down for maintenance once in a while?
No, not unless I do it manually, which I did not this time. I did find the problem however. One of my host servers - the one that hosts my generic web server that does the redirection for pattayatalk.com, was paused because it was low on disk space... one of the backup routines got way out of hand lol. Its now fixed... and cheers for making me go look. It might have been a week before I checked it as there is nothing else critical running on that server lol.
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That is strange it should still work. I will look in to that asap.
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The upgrade is complete.
The index service is rebuilding, so it may be a couple hours before all known posts are back in their rightful positions in your feed.
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Working on this again now... may see some little bit of downtime, not sure. Will try to keep it at a minimum.
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Still working on this... the permissions are wrong for it to work in a automated process. Will get it working eventually lol.Ok, well that was a fast failure lol.
Apparently I need to set up a new FTP account on the server specifically for these updates. I am going to do that today or tonight and proceed with the update as soon as its done. Will update here when I click the button.
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Updating coming in the next couple days - there will be some downtime.
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ok, funny story here.
So... I got a notice about 12 hours ago that my SSL for ptalk was going to expire "in 1 day".
I immediately posted that last post... thinking to myself "damn, if I had done x when I set this server up, this damn SSL would be handled automatically when needed". So I thought... fuck it, lets do this one manual-like and then fix the problem going forward. That way I don't stupidly let it expire before remembering to renew it hurriedly after a really wonderful mod sends you a SMS while your sleeping.
Ill just leave it at that and file it under "DOH!"... and go back to sleep. ?