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Server Upgrades 7-13-2021 updates 8-16-2021

12 Jul 2021, 11:20

Hello all

It is time to implement some server hardware and software upgrades in order to maintain the highest level of security for our little community.
over the past few months i have been working on the details of a new server build.

tomorrow at roughly 6 am UTC i will be taking the forum offline for no more than 3 hours. Because we are moving to a new server to take advantage of the latest provisioned OS and hardware the site certificate and DNS will be updated. during this transition there may be periods of certificate errors or other temporary issues. Please be patient. if the three hour window proves to not be enough due to some unexpected technical issues I will simply roll back to the current setup and reschedule

When complete there should not be any identifiable differences. If there are
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UPDATES
Managed to finally update the db server version
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Re: Server Upgrades 7-13-2021

13 Jul 2021, 01:38

Due to a technical issue this upgrade will be rescheduled for 7-14-2021
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Re: Server Upgrades 7-13-2021

18 Jul 2021, 19:12

I assume this took place on 7/14 then?
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Re: Server Upgrades 7-13-2021

18 Jul 2021, 19:36

i think it did yesterday. unless its been rolledback again
whats new?
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Re: Server Upgrades 7-13-2021

18 Jul 2021, 20:10

Nothing. I noticed it was down for a bit yesterday. Was getting SQL errors. Checked the forum today and saw this post but no update about trying to perform the updates on the 17th so just curious
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Re: Server Upgrades 7-13-2021

18 Jul 2021, 21:01

some of the redirects from our htaccess are not playing well with the latest version of apache. I hadn't considered this when i made the announcement. Its a tedious process as there are dozens of htaccess littered in various directories. each time a page is requested the htaccess is read by apache. by moving these settings to the server config they are read only at startup. its overall a better practice as htaccess files both have an overhead and are really designed to be patchwork.
I am working through this consolidation and will update this thread when finished

Yesterdays issue was actually unrelated except that its one of the reasons i am rebuilding the servers. Typically, i catch it quicker before the db shuts off but i missed it this time
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Re: Server Upgrades 7-13-2021

19 Jul 2021, 06:27

Thanks for the excellent update. I agree and appreciate your work to consolidate those routing rules for best practice and improved performance. Keep us posted
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Re: Server Upgrades 7-13-2021

02 Aug 2021, 05:58

Ok i am making a smaller update right now to a new DB server and version of MySQL
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Re: Server Upgrades 7-13-2021

02 Aug 2021, 10:07

i dunno how connections keep droping during a data transfer on the same cloud hosting

fml

to be continued
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Re: Server Upgrades 7-13-2021 updates 8-16-2021

27 Aug 2021, 07:55

yea it was me updating server sorry for the short outage
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Re: Server Upgrades 7-13-2021 updates 8-16-2021

27 Aug 2021, 14:46

Another short outage today then? ;)
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Re: Server Upgrades 7-13-2021 updates 8-16-2021

07 Sep 2021, 19:25

And Finally got the DB server hardware migration completed. Sorry for the outages all. Hopefully the last significant issue
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Re: Server Upgrades 7-13-2021 updates 8-16-2021

07 Sep 2021, 21:33

Glad to hear, that's great news! :+1:
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Re: Server Upgrades 7-13-2021 updates 8-16-2021

08 Sep 2021, 03:04

tank wrote:
07 Sep 2021, 19:25
And Finally got the DB server hardware migration completed. Sorry for the outages all. Hopefully the last significant issue
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Re: Server Upgrades 7-13-2021 updates 8-16-2021

08 Sep 2021, 11:47

apparently they decided to have a massive issue with their network file systems
allegedly resolved
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