Topic: Any and all site related problems

[smokester]

Excellent. And thanks for having this place for all us to just sit and relax in. Let me know if you'd take some compensation to help out (and how best to get it to you).

Thanks for that but I'm now even using Cyberpanel which is an Open Source web host panel as I'm sure you know that CPanel started charging a packet to use it. This brings our hosting fees down to a few dollars a year and less if other people want me to host sites for them. Anywho, I now put it through as a business expense but thanks again for the offer.

You have my little boy to thank for this as he even offered to give me a VPS on his dedicated server (at £15 a year - he isn't that stupid). But I decided to get my own VPS so that I could keep it tidy and then just lean on the littlun to explain to me how it all works.

[6pairsofshoes]

Thank you, smokes, for the work you devote to keeping this site going.  I echo dweez's offer of support in the case that the current inexpensive means goes kaput.  It's great that you can rely on your son for help with this.

[smokester]

I am finally confident enough with my VPS and the control panel I've installed to consider moving us over once and for all. I can then get rid of our current host which, while being incredibly fast and stable, is expensive by normal standards.

If I self impose a break from work I'll try and get us over in the next few days and, as usual, you can expect a short break in service if not a few things being odd for a while (your timezone etc).

I'll keep you all posted.

[8ullfrog]

You forgot the Mr. Arnold warning!

[6pairsofshoes]

I am finally confident enough with my VPS and the control panel I've installed to consider moving us over once and for all. I can then get rid of our current host which, while being incredibly fast and stable, is expensive by normal standards.

If I self impose a break from work I'll try and get us over in the next few days and, as usual, you can expect a short break in service if not a few things being odd for a while (your timezone etc).

I'll keep you all posted.

Thanks, in advance, for all that you do to keep this place up and running.

[smokester]

We have a little persistent problem here which is due to SMF not coping with newer versions of PHP very well. It doesn't hurt much but it creates dozens of entries to the error log every time a page is loaded. This in turn bloats and then it becomes an issue.

I can't fix it without disabling the spoiler tag of all things so don't be alarmed if that disappears temporarily. Once it's fixed I'll bounce us over to the new space but I'll put us into maintenance mode beforehand. Once that happens you'll know when we have been fully propagated as we'll be out of the maintenance mode on the new server.

[8ullfrog]

I like the new news.

[6pairsofshoes]

Thank you for your efforts on our behalf.

[smokester]

.... changed to a host ...

It's the boy's work (he's great at tippy tappying with command line stuff, but English skills ...).

Anywho, this is my VPS we are now on and it works great I think. Let me know of any glitches that may crop up.

Now that we are here I plan to get some other things up and running that will help us all. Stay tuned.

[8ullfrog]

6 says she's getting a 404 when trying to access the site.

I feel bad because I wasn't on the computer as much, and she emailed me like two days ago.

[smokester]

6 says she's getting a 404 when trying to access the site.

I feel bad because I wasn't on the computer as much, and she emailed me like two days ago.

There was a short time for the propagation to complete (which was 2 days ago) although she would have been seeing either the old or the new site during that time. I have checked and we can be seen from everywhere so my guess is she needs to clear her cache and try again. She could check from her phone or another browser that hasn't visited the site before and see if she can see us. She should also try the secure address (https:// ...) as I am playing with the redirects  to make it automagically load the SSL address but it's problematic without CPanel.

I'll get one of the boy's techie people over your side of the pond to ping us and see if there's anything spooky going on.

[8ullfrog]

She's in Northern California, I'm in southern, but I'd guess it's a cache thing. I've been hit by those.

[smokester]

It's possible that her ISP has cached the nameservers to speed things up a bit and those are no longer valid. It's a long shot but if she can't clear it herself, that might come into play.

[smokester]

Looking at the access logs:

six's ip - - [30/Apr/2020:07:53:49 +0200] "" 200 - "-" "-"
six's ip - - [30/Apr/2020:08:07:05 +0200] "" 200 - "-" "-"
six's ip - - [30/Apr/2020:21:06:08 +0200] "" 200 - "-" "-"
six's ip - - [30/Apr/2020:21:06:27 +0200] "" 200 - "-" "-"
six's ip - - [30/Apr/2020:21:06:27 +0200] "" 200 - "-" "-"
six's ip - - [30/Apr/2020:21:06:54 +0200] "" 200 - "-" "-"
six's ip - - [30/Apr/2020:21:06:54 +0200] "" 200 - "-" "-"
six's ip - - [30/Apr/2020:23:05:28 +0200] "" 200 - "-" "-"
six's ip - - [01/May/2020:17:32:01 +0200] "" 200 - "-" "-"
six's ip - - [01/May/2020:22:55:57 +0200] "" 200 - "-" "-"
six's ip - - [01/May/2020:22:55:57 +0200] "" 200 - "-" "-"
six's ip - - [02/May/2020:01:11:33 +0200] "" 200 - "-" "-"
six's ip - - [02/May/2020:01:11:33 +0200] "" 200 - "-" "-"
six's ip - - [02/May/2020:02:20:46 +0200] "" 200 - "-" "-"
six's ip - - [02/May/2020:07:08:12 +0200] "" 200 - "-" "-"
six's ip - - [02/May/2020:08:18:43 +0200] "" 200 - "-" "-"
six's ip - - [02/May/2020:08:18:43 +0200] "" 200 - "-" "-"

She's getting a successful 200 response every time.

Something's fishy. Maybe she should buy a PC ...

That's just for you, christ.

[6pairsofshoes]

Thanks for the concern.  I've been able to see the site for a couple of days.  I have been busy with RL tasks so I haven't been on here much.

The site is positively zippy since the transfer, so thanks for all your efforts, smokes.