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#1 2022-03-17 12:37:59

gaekwad
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Forum maintenance: 17 March 2022 1800UTC to 17 March 2022 2000UTC

The Textpattern forum will be offline for a short while as part of a server move.

The move is happening because a) we no longer need PHP 7.4 for one of our legacy sites; and b) we are moving to newer (better) hardware.

The net result will be a better forum experience since we’re not going to be sharing server resources between two versions of PHP, and the overall server performance is greater.

During the maintenance window, please use a web archive (e.g. Wayback Machine) or your search engine’s cache facility to enable read-only access to posts.

I will use this thread to let you know when it’s back up and running properly.

Thanks for your patience.

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#2 2022-03-17 18:00:01

gaekwad
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Re: Forum maintenance: 17 March 2022 1800UTC to 17 March 2022 2000UTC

Starting maintenance window now.

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#3 2022-03-17 18:14:49

gaekwad
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Re: Forum maintenance: 17 March 2022 1800UTC to 17 March 2022 2000UTC

…and done. If you can see this, you’re on the new server.

Thanks for your patience.

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#4 2022-03-17 18:35:58

gaekwad
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Re: Forum maintenance: 17 March 2022 1800UTC to 17 March 2022 2000UTC

Search index appears to be broken, I am investigating.

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#5 2022-03-17 18:46:58

gaekwad
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Re: Forum maintenance: 17 March 2022 1800UTC to 17 March 2022 2000UTC

Search reindexing now, ETA: 10 mins.

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#6 2022-03-17 19:04:32

gaekwad
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Re: Forum maintenance: 17 March 2022 1800UTC to 17 March 2022 2000UTC

gaekwad wrote #332942:

Search reindexing now, ETA: 10 mins.

Fixed. A little longer than expected, but now resolved.

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#7 2022-03-17 20:13:05

jakob
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Re: Forum maintenance: 17 March 2022 1800UTC to 17 March 2022 2000UTC

Pete, thanks for your updating work for us all!


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#8 2022-03-17 21:31:49

Bloke
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Re: Forum maintenance: 17 March 2022 1800UTC to 17 March 2022 2000UTC

Terrific stuff. Thank you for all the amazing work you do keeping everything zooming along.


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#9 2022-03-18 01:51:27

phiw13
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Re: Forum maintenance: 17 March 2022 1800UTC to 17 March 2022 2000UTC

Good work, everything appears a-OK ATM. I could search for “something keyword” and got (some expected) results, so that is fine. Page loading, log in, previewing are all smooth as silk.

Thank you.


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#10 2022-03-18 04:56:59

colak
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Re: Forum maintenance: 17 March 2022 1800UTC to 17 March 2022 2000UTC

Thanks so much Pete. All looks good from here.


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#11 2022-03-18 12:38:15

gaekwad
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Re: Forum maintenance: 17 March 2022 1800UTC to 17 March 2022 2000UTC

Thanks for the feedback!

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#12 2022-03-18 16:58:39

gaekwad
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Re: Forum maintenance: 17 March 2022 1800UTC to 17 March 2022 2000UTC

Note: the forum database is backed up every hour at 3 minutes past, and rather than put the forum into maintenance mode every hour I’ve chosen to do it live.

The net result is that you will find searching, posting and browsing a bit slow around 3 – 4 minutes past the hour. Your search / post / thread will appear, it’ll just be a little slow.

Technical: a 400MB+ database is gzip compressed to ~80MB ever hour, and the process takes all available CPU for the duration.

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