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#81 Silencer

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Posted 19 August 2024 - 11:09 AM

Alright, so between the uptime tracker showing good signs and the lack of posts here, I'm assuming no-one has had any issues in the last 3-4 days.

If that is correct, then I think we've solved it. And by 'we' I mean Xae, because he was the one who found the culprit (a MySQL table running some slow queries).

Next on the list is fixing the emails, which should be done shortly as well now that the main issue is (hopefully) resolved.

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#82 Tsundoku

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Posted 19 August 2024 - 11:51 AM

Cheers big ears.

Yes, from my perspective there hasn't been any slow periods or 502/504s since my previous post on 15 Aug.

So jolly good. Please extend my regards to Xae as well. :thumbsup:

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#83 Vengeance

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Posted 19 August 2024 - 12:28 PM

Silencer, on 19 August 2024 - 11:09 AM, said:

Ahhh yes. Sql query management. Very familiar with those little buggers.

How many fucking people do I have to hammer in order to get that across.
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#84 Tsundoku

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Posted 06 June 2025 - 11:26 PM

Security certificate has pooped itself again.

https://forum.malaza...ost__p__1474602

Also - has anyone else not been getting any email notifications for a while now?

#85 Tsundoku

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Posted 15 June 2025 - 11:34 AM

Thanks Silencer for getting the security certificate fixed.

However, I'm pretty sure email notifications are still borked.

Also, did anyone else get 502 Bad Gateway messages over the last 24 hours?

#86 D'rek

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Posted 15 June 2025 - 05:41 PM

Email has been borked for a long time now. It may not be possible to fix it.

worrywort, on 14 September 2012 - 08:07 PM, said:

I kinda love it when D'rek unleashes her nerd wrath, as I knew she would here. Sorry innocent bystanders, but someone's gotta be the kindling.

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Posted 15 June 2025 - 08:23 PM

Tsundoku, on 15 June 2025 - 11:34 AM, said:

Thanks Silencer for getting the security certificate fixed.

However, I'm pretty sure email notifications are still borked.

Also, did anyone else get 502 Bad Gateway messages over the last 24 hours?

It’s about 50:50 whether I get a 502 or go the website.

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#88 Tsundoku

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Posted 15 June 2025 - 08:54 PM

D, on 15 June 2025 - 05:41 PM, said:

Email has been borked for a long time now. It may not be possible to fix it.

Fair enough. I knew it wasn't working for me but wasn't sure about anyone else.

Slow Ben, on 15 June 2025 - 08:23 PM, said:

Tsundoku, on 15 June 2025 - 11:34 AM, said:

Thanks Silencer for getting the security certificate fixed. However, I'm pretty sure email notifications are still borked.Also, did anyone else get 502 Bad Gateway messages over the last 24 hours?

It’s about 50:50 whether I get a 502 or go the website.

Ditto. It isn't just entry to the site but it can happen jumping between threads or pages and can last from minutes to hours for me.

#89 Tsundoku

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Posted 24 June 2025 - 10:52 AM

Site running either slow, extra slow or just not loading sometimes in the last couple of days.

#90 Tsundoku

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Posted 23 July 2025 - 12:19 PM

Ditto for above, plus a bunch of 502 and 504 Gateway errors.

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Posted 23 July 2025 - 03:59 PM

also something tried to break through the third phase firewall and eat my bamboo plant.

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Posted 24 July 2025 - 09:31 AM

Abyss, on 23 July 2025 - 03:59 PM, said:

also something tried to break through the third phase firewall and eat my bamboo plant.

Sorry about that.

I'm getting a lot of security certificate concerns when coming to the site.

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#93 Tsundoku

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Posted 16 August 2025 - 08:18 AM

A whole bunch of 502 Bad Gateway errors this morning.

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Posted 16 August 2025 - 09:49 AM

Tsundoku, on 16 August 2025 - 08:18 AM, said:

A whole bunch of 502 Bad Gateway errors this morning.

Been having a few over the past week. Lots of obscure connection messages and gateway errors.

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#95 Tsundoku

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Posted 20 August 2025 - 08:23 PM

Yep, site really slow this morning and more 502s. Been intermittent ever since my post on the 16th.

EDIT: particularly during my mornings, so around 8pm GMT.

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#96 Tsundoku

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Posted 03 September 2025 - 08:33 PM

Same, plus the slowness and occasional 502s occurring during our evening (from about 0800 GMT onward).

#97 champ

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Posted 03 September 2025 - 08:42 PM

Aye everything is super slow or 502 for me atm.

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#98 D'rek

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Posted 04 September 2025 - 03:17 AM

worrywort, on 14 September 2012 - 08:07 PM, said:

I kinda love it when D'rek unleashes her nerd wrath, as I knew she would here. Sorry innocent bystanders, but someone's gotta be the kindling.

#99 D'rek

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Posted 04 September 2025 - 03:26 AM

But in all seriousness, well this is really just the latest in a long line of slowdowns of the forum, plus there's been bot problems, plus emails from the domain are still blocked by many common services so people can't register with gmail accounts or receive notifications, and many other problems.

Silencer has been keeping the lights on and occasionally getting Xae to tackle the most severe issues in the back end, but neither of them are regularly active anymore, and patching this forum's horrifically outdated systems is (rightly) less and less of a priority for them.

If there's somebody who wants to take over hosting the server and to try fixing the ongoing issues (both of which will take time and money) then I can try to get a hold of Silencer to figure out how to transfer it. But given how old the forum system we use is (no longer even supported by IPB, IIRC) even then it's unlikely you'll find much success at fixing it short of migrating the forum to a whole new (expensive?) modern version of the IPB or another forum platform, which is a huge undertaking.

worrywort, on 14 September 2012 - 08:07 PM, said:

I kinda love it when D'rek unleashes her nerd wrath, as I knew she would here. Sorry innocent bystanders, but someone's gotta be the kindling.