⚠️ Update on the work ⚠️

[ChrisSilver]

Firstly apologies for the extended downtime. It was much longer than expected as the forum has grown significantly in size recently. 

The work was taking too long, and as we are now in a position to be able to put the forum back online we have gone ahead and put the forum online again. Please note that there is still work going on in the background, and we will need to take the forum off line to finish the work (which we estimate will be sometime Sunday night but which should only last a few hours) 

You may also notice a 500 error issue again, if this happens we will restart the MySQL database. We currently believe that the spot price bar application is overloading the database. When we do the final move of files (likely will be sometime this Sunday night) we will not install the spot price bar application. We will be installing the spot price application on a separate test sever to see if that is indeed the cause of the 500 error issues, and also speaking with the developer of that particular application. 

Apologies in advance for the planned downtime this Sunday 9th May 2021, but the majority of the work should hopefully be behind us. 

[ChrisSilver]

I’m going to restart the server around 2-3am U.K. time, this will take only a few mins. But should mean that there isn’t a 500 error issue for an extended period during the night whilst no one is around to check on it. 

[ChrisSilver]

37 minutes ago, ChrisSilver said:

I’m going to restart the server around 2-3am U.K. time, this will take only a few mins. But should mean that there isn’t a 500 error issue for an extended period during the night whilst no one is around to check on it. 

Cancel that. Have checked with our engineer, he had adjusted some settings and suggested to leave the server running to see if it goes down again or if it’s now working fine. So will do that, and if however I notice it does go down again, I will restart the server.

[ChrisSilver]

Just a quick update: Still in the process of moving a lot of stuff over. So there will still be a few hours downtime sometime this week when needing to complete it, but it won’t be tonight. 

[ChrisSilver]

There will be some downtime today as switching over, but should be limited. 

[ChrisSilver]

Shouldn't be any downtime now as the remaining work should all be able to be done in the background. Once again apologies for any inconvenience caused whilst we were working to fix the issues.