Forum UPDATES and Disruptions
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Forum UPDATES and Disruptions
Postby AUbicycles » Mon Oct 22, 2012 2:11 am
The Brief Version
There have been technical changes to BNA to resolve performance issues - you may notice:
- A captcha which you may be required to complete once
- You may need to log in again
- You may spot an error or bug, in which case please report to BNA on Facebook or post details here
The Longer Version
In the last week or so there have been performance issues with this site. While we have solid hosting and have taken all reasonable measures to improve the site performance and optimise, it is still at its limits. I don't have the option is to "throw money at the problem" and instead have made a spur-of-the-moment decision to use the Cloudflare service.
The aim is to reduce the load on the server - and cloudflare is a type of CDN (Content Delivery Network) that saves copies of content from the website in datacentres across the world and when you visit, it can deliver a copy of the pages more quickly - and spares the main server from doing as much work. We already use a CDN which is just for graphics and javascript, though cloudflare does a bit more. It will also reduce malicious traffic (so less hackers, spammers and known trouble-makers).
I will monitor facebook and this thread for replies and error reports (or anything you think I should know). If everything really goes crazy, you can also email.
Thank you for your understanding and patience
Christopher / AuBicycles / Admin
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Re: Forum UPDATES and Disruptions
Postby boss » Mon Oct 22, 2012 7:58 am
I have sent my IP to info@bicycles.net.au
Any chance of getting my IP unbanned? No idea what I would / could have done to incur a ban!
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Re: Forum UPDATES and Disruptions
Postby greyhoundtom » Mon Oct 22, 2012 8:11 am
I'm having to post this via my neighbours computer.
Cheers,
Tom
Edit........my neighbours IP address just got banned as well.
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Re: Forum UPDATES and Disruptions
Postby familyguy » Mon Oct 22, 2012 8:48 am
Best of luck Christopher! Being technically inept when it comes to issues like this, sadly I'm unable to offer any assistance.
Jim
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Re: Forum UPDATES and Disruptions
Postby AndyTheMan » Mon Oct 22, 2012 9:08 am
I know I post some crap, and tend to get off topic...but geeezzzz ... banning me?!?!?
Luckily I can still log in through my work system!
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Re: Forum UPDATES and Disruptions
Postby greyhoundtom » Mon Oct 22, 2012 9:14 am
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Re: Forum UPDATES and Disruptions
Postby Gerry.M » Mon Oct 22, 2012 9:15 am
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Re: Forum UPDATES and Disruptions
Postby greyhoundtom » Mon Oct 22, 2012 10:32 am
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Re: Forum UPDATES and Disruptions
Postby Baalzamon » Mon Oct 22, 2012 10:35 am
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Re: Forum UPDATES and Disruptions
Postby AUbicycles » Mon Oct 22, 2012 12:05 pm
It is likely that I have been able to now fix it - so in that thread happy for more confirmations that it is resolved.
By all means, if you are still receiving this ban notice, let me know.
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Re: Forum UPDATES and Disruptions (UPDATED)
Postby AUbicycles » Fri Oct 26, 2012 2:16 pm
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Re: Forum UPDATES and Disruptions (UPDATED)
Postby Sprocket » Fri Oct 26, 2012 2:20 pm
But looks like the forum database might have been rolled back to the DB before your tweeks this morning, ie posts between going offline earlier today and the hiccough have possibly been lost, including your update about the tweeks this morning.
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Re: Forum UPDATES and Disruptions (UPDATED)
Postby AUbicycles » Fri Oct 26, 2012 2:27 pm
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Re: Forum UPDATES and Disruptions (UPDATED)
Postby AUbicycles » Fri Oct 26, 2012 2:36 pm
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Re: Forum UPDATES and Disruptions (UPDATED)
Postby Baalzamon » Fri Oct 26, 2012 2:41 pm
Up now after ghost login and not being logged in
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Re: Forum UPDATES and Disruptions (UPDATED)
Postby AUbicycles » Fri Oct 26, 2012 2:46 pm
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Re: Forum UPDATES and Disruptions (UPDATED)
Postby Sprocket » Fri Oct 26, 2012 2:47 pm
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Re: Forum UPDATES and Disruptions (UPDATED)
Postby AUbicycles » Fri Oct 26, 2012 2:49 pm
Have checked the database (which is where the party has been happening) and all database tables look good now... so from NOW everything is going to work
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Re: Forum UPDATES and Disruptions (UPDATED)
Postby AUbicycles » Fri Oct 26, 2012 3:53 pm
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