PSA: Maintenance notices / website updates
PSA: Maintenance notices / website updates
There was a recent server/host maintenance and there was a minor rollback.
If your post disappeared, I am terribly sorry - the rollback should have been minimal - around 5 minutes or less.
Other sites should be up and running normal.
Thanks for your understanding.
Ps.: If anyone is interested, OVH changed it's hosting just as 2018 came along, so that is why the change was necessary.
We have lost IPv6 (Cloudflare will deliver that until we get support), but we gained bandwidth. Hooray!
If your post disappeared, I am terribly sorry - the rollback should have been minimal - around 5 minutes or less.
Other sites should be up and running normal.
Thanks for your understanding.
Ps.: If anyone is interested, OVH changed it's hosting just as 2018 came along, so that is why the change was necessary.
We have lost IPv6 (Cloudflare will deliver that until we get support), but we gained bandwidth. Hooray!
Re: PSA: Maintenance notices / website updates
We will have another maintenance soon. It will take 1 hour at most. This only affects forum, the website will be up and running with almost no delay.
Thank you for your patience.
(This time I will toggle maintenance mode on for the forums, so if you see that, or 404, we are in maintenance.)
Postponed. Happy posting!![Smiley :)](./images/smilies/smiley.gif)
Thank you for your patience.
(This time I will toggle maintenance mode on for the forums, so if you see that, or 404, we are in maintenance.)
Postponed. Happy posting!
![Smiley :)](./images/smilies/smiley.gif)
Last edited by Peter on Mon Jan 22, 2018 7:21 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Re: PSA: Maintenance notices / website updates
Maintenance soon, IPv6 will be back when the maintenance is done.
(The forum will go maintenance mode as well, to avoid lost posts and such.)
(The forum will go maintenance mode as well, to avoid lost posts and such.)
Re: PSA: Maintenance notices / website updates
Maintenance done.
All services should be operational, up and running.
- IPv6 is back.
- Server, download and loading speeds boosted.
- HTTP/2 is enabled. That's why we had some minor outages just after I posted my message.
All services should be operational, up and running.
- IPv6 is back.
- Server, download and loading speeds boosted.
- HTTP/2 is enabled. That's why we had some minor outages just after I posted my message.
Last edited by Peter on Thu Jan 25, 2018 10:49 am, edited 1 time in total.
Re: PSA: Maintenance notices / website updates
Mail server update
In the past, we have already used a third-party provider to have better delivery rates, called SendGrind. It had a 1$ plan - and it just worked. Sadly, they discontinued the plan.
So once the service was discontinued, I thought we will just send our own mail. It's not that hard... or is it?
Few users have complained that the forum emails just won't arrive - or they arrive late. It was set up right, with the proper DNS records and all the fluff (checked with mail-checker and others). Nevertheless, Google and others still decided to randomly delay letters. Not cool.
Instead of wasting even more time and effort on the self-stack, I went out on a journey to find a new SMTP hosting... once again. This time, the choice was "Mailgun". Their interface looks clean, it works, and it also feels secure. (Not that we have too much to worry about the email contents). Enjoy! All mails should arrive pretty fast and without failures.
In the past, we have already used a third-party provider to have better delivery rates, called SendGrind. It had a 1$ plan - and it just worked. Sadly, they discontinued the plan.
So once the service was discontinued, I thought we will just send our own mail. It's not that hard... or is it?
Few users have complained that the forum emails just won't arrive - or they arrive late. It was set up right, with the proper DNS records and all the fluff (checked with mail-checker and others). Nevertheless, Google and others still decided to randomly delay letters. Not cool.
Instead of wasting even more time and effort on the self-stack, I went out on a journey to find a new SMTP hosting... once again. This time, the choice was "Mailgun". Their interface looks clean, it works, and it also feels secure. (Not that we have too much to worry about the email contents). Enjoy! All mails should arrive pretty fast and without failures.
Re: PSA: Maintenance notices / website updates
Turns out some mails were not delivered with Mailgun either as Hotmail-Outlook rejected their IP. After contacting support, they fixed the issue by moving us to new IP within a few hours.
Re: PSA: Maintenance notices / website updates
There will be a maintenance on both sites today, I will be moving the forums and main site to a more secure place, so both will receive additional security measures.
Builds will be served out from a new place, and depending on bandwidth requirements, the site will use a CDN-like solution as well.
Either way, expect minor downtime, no breakages. Thank you.
(There is now GPDR as well in the EU.)
Builds will be served out from a new place, and depending on bandwidth requirements, the site will use a CDN-like solution as well.
Either way, expect minor downtime, no breakages. Thank you.
(There is now GPDR as well in the EU.)
Re: PSA: Maintenance notices / website updates
Okay, forums are done, website will be also done very soon.
Re: PSA: Maintenance notices / website updates
Website is up and running. (With only a 1 minute downtime, yay.)
Thanks for your patience. Builds is next.
Thanks for your patience. Builds is next.
Re: PSA: Maintenance notices / website updates
Builds is complete. All sites / parts are done, up and running. Thank you.
Re: PSA: Maintenance notices / website updates
Our SMTP broke for a while, as there was a new block on :25. Since :25 worked on any previous setting/place I kept using because it makes no sense whatsoever to mess with it, unless there are issues. Like just now. And of course, SMF has an error log, where it did not log anything about all this.
Either way, mail sending is back in action now.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Either way, mail sending is back in action now.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Re: PSA: Maintenance notices / website updates
Thanks for your effort mate.
Re: PSA: Maintenance notices / website updates
The site has been moved over to NGINX to make it more future-proof. In the past, we have migrated to Apache's newer versions which caused an only headache and instability.
With Nginx as it has, it's own official PPA/repo, we are golden.
The forum has received two new modules. ReCAPTCHA (register + first few posts) and the bad reputation addon.
With Nginx as it has, it's own official PPA/repo, we are golden.
The forum has received two new modules. ReCAPTCHA (register + first few posts) and the bad reputation addon.
Re: PSA: Maintenance notices / website updates
Site maintenance will happen today - soon. Expect minor downtime. Nothing should change, but if you see the site break a bit for a short period of time, don't panic. ![Smiley :)](./images/smilies/smiley.gif)
![Smiley :)](./images/smilies/smiley.gif)
Re: PSA: Maintenance notices / website updates
The site should be up, functional and be faster than ever. (qbittorrent.org)
IPv6 is still under maintenance/work.
IPv6 is still under maintenance/work.