Forum Upgrade

[Grant]

If you tried to get on the forum anytime Sunday night then you would've seen that things went wrong with the upgrade.

Too cut a long story short, the forum needed upgrading to the latest version, this fixed several security bugs as well as offering us a few more features. The upgrade neeed to make some changes to the database to improve speed and efficiency. The trouble is the forum is now so large that running this process took such a long time it ended up tripping over itself. Luckily, I had made a full backup beforehand, unluckily by this time I had 2 mins to get ready and dash out of the door to go for a meal.

When I got home again I was able to restore the forum to its previous state and with the help of my service providor run the upgrade process directly on the server manually which has seemed to do the trick.

It was definitely worth doing because of the security problems its fixed, also you may notice some time limits on things such as sending PM's, you now must wait 30 seconds or so before sending each pm, if you have less than 5 posts then each pm you send will require you to enter a visual verification code, all of this should hopefully prevent any future problems with spam being sent through pms.

Anyways, I need to go to bed!

Sorry for any inconvenience everyone but stuff like this is largely out of my control, I need to keep upgrading the system to ensure its always got the latest bug fixes to keep it protected in future I now have a different method for carrying out this upgrades so hopefully the downtime experienced tonight shouldn't happen again.

Cheers,

Grant

[John]

Hi Grant,

Thanks very much for all your hard work on getting the forum updated - I hope it didn't spoil your meal !!.

Anyway it's much appreciated,

John.

[The Warthog]

Have a good night! You forced me to do some intellectual activity tonight instead. I watched the news on TV.

[geppetto]

Hope you had a nice night out Grant and thanks

for your efforts in getting us up and running again

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Thanks grant for your hard work and I hope that you enjoyed your meal.

Captain Chaos

[Ant]

Nice one Grant, your hard work is always appreciated!

Ant

[GazOC]

Top work Grant. Many thanks.

[FLO]

I actually watched TV :shock:

Nice one Grant

[Andrew*]

nice one Grant, but it didn't stop me being glued to the PC, waiting for it to come back on!!

I was in the middle of a post.

Not that it matters.

Appreciate all the work.

Andrew

[Jamie]

Top job Grant (as usual)

Without you we would be spammed and hacked to bits......

[CELESCOPE]

Cheers Grant excellent job done mate ,

Rog

hope it did,nt spoil the meal

[Saso]

I must say that I miss forum. Nice job. I know how it is - with computers...

Saso

[robindurant]

I was beginning to have withdrawal symptoms. Thanks for getting it back.

[Astroman]

I just can't believe you feel the need to apologize to us. We're in your debt for doing such a fine job of managing this forum, Grant. Whatever it takes to keep it running smoothly will surely be gladly accepted. :notworthy: :hello1:

[Chubster]

Of course he needs to apologies....I was coming out in welts, my palms were sweating, had a funny twitch in my face and couldn't sleep all night ! Missus said I was mumbling something about sgl being dead and tossing and turning :shock: :?

Joking aside appreciate all your hard work Grant ......right now to get posting the lunars from lastnight

Chub

[Martin 2]

Yep, I had withdrawel symtoms last night.

Only joking Grant, cant thank you enough for keeping this fotum shipshape.

M2

[Chubster]

fotum shipshape

Isnt that some sort of torpedo :?

[Martin 2]

:)

M2

[Grant]

Thanks everyone for your kind words. Seems like the upgrade has gone OK since it was all sorted which is always good news!

Fingers crossed there won't be anymore upgrades for a little while

[Astroman]

Astroman checks his watch...