What is wrong with the site? (Please read updated post #1)

Dav

OK Folks, we're going to be pushing out both a code and DNS change at 12 o'clock. For those of you in the know, you'll understand that this means inescapable down time whilst we wait for the DNS servers to flush and so on - with CloudFlare, this is really quick, but still not instant. For those of you who don't know what DNS is, it's basically the service that tells all the various hardware that the internet runs on across the globe where to send requests for data from any website.

So, what all this will mean is that we'll be offline and/or our static content (b-static.net) might be broken again. There's no better time for us to take care of this as Ronan and Andres are trying to get as much as possible sorted before Lunch so that there's still time to correct or roll back after lunch in case of emergency (again, anyone who's worked in this sort of environment will be well aware of the sorts of task they're facing).

Thargor

atsbury wrote: »

I'm having the same issue. Haven't received an email notification in a while

keps wrote: »

Same here - stopped getting 'reply' notification across all threads a few days ago

LEIN wrote: »

Some come through no problem. Mainly from the talk to section then absolutely nothing from others.

Dav wrote: »

We're trying to get our email back up and running today - we keep getting blacklisted after turning it back on because we send so much out and because things are now hidden behind CloudFlare, Spamhaus thinks we're sending fake emails and so blacklists them once again. It's proving very stubborn to get sorted, but I'll keep you as up to date on it as I can.

If you want to see if any of your threads or threads you've posted in have been replied to then hit the number up in the top right to see a list of them, not ideal like email but Id have forgotten 20+ threads I was watching without it:

whiskeyman

God speed little doodle!

RobertKK

Will the downtime be used to fix double posts that happen with the 'quick reply' sometimes?

white_westie

Ah the joys:P of change management on a 24x7 system...

my friend

Dav wrote: »

OK Folks, we're going to be pushing out both a code and DNS change at 12 o'clock. For those of you in the know, you'll understand that this means inescapable down time whilst we wait for the DNS servers to flush and so on - with CloudFlare, this is really quick, but still not instant. For those of you who don't know what DNS is, it's basically the service that tells all the various hardware that the internet runs on across the globe where to send requests for data from any website.

So, what all this will mean is that we'll be offline and/or our static content (b-static.net) might be broken again. There's no better time for us to take care of this as Ronan and Andres are trying to get as much as possible sorted before Lunch so that there's still time to correct or roll back after lunch in case of emergency (again, anyone who's worked in this sort of environment will be well aware of the sorts of task they're facing).

They take Lunch?

my friend

my friend wrote: »

They take Lunch?

As a former (now deceased ) colleague of mine used to joke: "Lunch? What do you think this is, Butlins holiday camp?"

cyberwolf77

my friend wrote: »

They take Lunch?

Lunch is good, brunch is better, but linner is best. Don't overlook lunch

CramCycle

cyberwolf77 wrote: »

Lunch is good, brunch is better, but linner is best. Don't overlook lunch

Missed Elevenses this morning and am appropriately cranky

IvyTheTerrible

What about second breakfast?

oscarBravo

IPv6 is back, woo!

Johnboy1951

Another test to see if I can post

EDIT: (long delay for this edit)

After a short delay the post went through.

Now to see if I get access to any other section of boards. Up to now all other posts failed.

RobertKK

So was the double post issue in 'quick reply' solved?

Skylinehead

Quick Reply

EDIT: looks fine

Dav

So there's currently work ongoing with Avatars and attachments - we're porting them over to AWS from our own hard drives. So your avatars may disappear for a while as that's ongoing.

The Moldy Gowl

My avatar may or may not disappear for a while?

Disgraceful treatment of us. Sold your soul.

testicle

Gowlasauras Rex wrote: »

My avatar may or may not disappear for a while?

Disgraceful treatment of us. Sold your soul.

To amazon no less...

Liamario

Of course, you could just let us upload our own Avatars. It being 2016 after all.

m17

Dav wrote: »

So there's currently work ongoing with Avatars and attachments - we're porting them over to AWS from our own hard drives. So your avatars may disappear for a while as that's ongoing.

Thanks dav 4 keeping us updated, the f on my keyboard was not working yesterday

muffler

m17 wrote: »

Thanks dav 4 keeping us updated

Who's dav 4?

Ted_YNWA

muffler wrote: »

Who's dav 4?

Thanks Dav for ....

Steve

Dav wrote: »

So there's currently work ongoing with Avatars and attachments - we're porting them over to AWS from our own hard drives. So your avatars may disappear for a while as that's ongoing.

Seeing as it's feedback, any remote chance you could code something like wthax and host it on the boards servers?

That was a fabulous resource and is sorely missed.

Maybe even replace the (what still seems like) legacy vB attachment code.

muffler

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Thanks Dav for ....

Ah! You know how to use a keyboard. It seems my previous attempt at sarcasm has gone unnoticed

Eeden

Is this making the subscribers thing weird too? Because I'm not sure if my subscriber thing is a thing anymore. I signed up again, then was told my re-sign up was redundant and was given a refund, but it still seems now that I am not a subscriber? but it's too difficult to figure out if that's a thing or just me?

Have I said "thing" too much?

Eeden

Plus I didn't even want to mention the double posting thing...

New Home

Hi folks,

A new one for me - I tried to post a query on the Electric Ireland page, but I got this error message: 'In order to accept POST requests originating from this domain, the admin must add this domain to the whitelist'.. The URL of that page was www.boards.ie/ttforum/1349/createthread.
The thread didn't post, at least I cannot see it there.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

biko

http://b-static.net/images/arrow_down.gif 404 Using white forum skin

Spear

biko wrote: »

http://b-static.net/images/arrow_down.gif 404 Using white forum skin

There's a load of common images missing under that path, including the DRP flowchart.

m17

muffler wrote: »

Who's dav 4?

That's davs big brother

hullaballoo

Have some respect, it's Dav v4.0.