Intermittant issues - updates coming

[Schweddy]

All,

We are aware of the load balancing issues and now have a plan to combat them. The goal is to upgrade the system early next Sunday.
The timing is due to personal lives and some new challenges we will have with the new set up to get it fully optimal.

In the event it gets too crazy, we might attempt it sooner.

Thank you for your patience.

 

[Schweddy]

Holy cow! What a day ... er 19 hours!

We are now running the latest software along with Nginx which should resolve load balancing and images not loading.

The database was upgraded along with Apache and PHP. We had several issues along the way as it has been a long time since the database was upgraded. Well Apache & PHP were upgraded a couple of weeks ago and had an issue so we originally went back to an older version. As you all know, that proved to be a bad decision.

The website should be faster and more stable now. The intermittent load issues should be resolved and we may need to do some tweaking after running awhile to find our sweet spot again.

/crossed fingers

RedAkston will be posting a thread to help us if you have any problems or weirdness. Please let us know if you find anything crazier than he is.

Thank you for your patience today.