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Announcements and Suggestions / Migration Update
« on: March 13, 2024, 12:27:36 PM »
The Cloud update and migration is set up, I have the cloud account already. The migration is waiting for some info they asked about.
This is part of what they sent me after setting up the account.

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Hello,
Thank you for your interest in migrating to the vBulletin Cloud product.
The first step is to close your forum to new posts/registrations via AdminCP.  The reason for this is simple - we can't do partial imports, only a FULL database import.   If you don't close your forum before backing up, any new threads, posts or new registrations will NOT be moved over to your Cloud site as they will not be included in the backup you give us.
Please note that custom styles that are not Style Variable and CSS changes ONLY (i.e. third party styles with custom images) and plugins will not be migrated. Custom styles and plugins are not compatible with vBulletin Cloud.

After I get them the info they want it's likely we'll be down for a day or two.
Also the plugins they refer to include iTrader, I've looked for ways to make it work with the newer vB versions but it's almost 20 years old and not current at all. I'm still looking for a replacement for iTrader that will work.

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For the last year the site has definitely had some issues, we had to move to a new server in 01/23 and the new server's MySQL version conflicted with our older software which caused the slow loading or failures to load as well as odd text and exceptions.
I have been working with the developers of our forum software to update to a current version since May of 2023 but that has taken far longer than it should have due to the proprietary control panel on the new server.

Rather than continuing on what has been too long a path to make the updated software work on our private server I’m switching gears.
I’m moving to cloud hosting with vBulletin. This should not only resolve the current issues but improve our update process as they will be installing updates, patches and upgrades automatically.

Barring any unexpected problems this transition will be occurring this month. According to vB's answer to yesterday's question I sent
'You can start by purchasing the Gold Plan, and we will manually upgrade you to the custom Enterprise Plan we discussed after.
Please let us know once you have purchased so we can initiate the upgrade and migration.'

I will be starting the process today by purchasing the cloud subscription, as soon as I hear of a definitive time for the upgrade and migration I will post it here, on calguns.org and on the Calguns Members group on FB.

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Server Move and Outage Reports / Re: Calguns down for me 02/14/24
« on: February 14, 2024, 03:45:39 PM »
WTF??? I can get in to the Admin panel but not the forum!

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Announcements and Suggestions / Latest on the software issue. 2/13/24
« on: February 13, 2024, 04:01:24 PM »
First off I want to thank everyone for being so patient with this mess, I really do appreciate it.

I am getting really F'N pissed at vBulletin. Not only does support leave you dangling apparently sales does as well!

On December 19 I heard from them regarding the software update, 'working on it'.
Mid to late Jan. I ask for an update and was told 'I'll look in to it tomorrow'
As of today I guess it's still not 'tomorrow'.
All of this is after having to chase them down to begin with.

A week or so ago I decided to look at other options, specifically some of the cloud hosted options offered by vBulletin and Xenforo.
They host their own software on their cloud server, you own the data, database and have autonomy to run your site as you want to.
Software and server updates and upgrades are handle by them behind the scenes so you're always on the newest release.

I sent the same email to both vB and Xenforo, Identical wording except changing the names.
There was a follow up by both, Xenforo withing a day, vB within a couple of days, asking about traffic stats.
Within 18 hours of my reply with the info on our traffic I received an email from Xenforo with an estimate on monthly hosting costs, new license cost and conversion/migration costs.
So far I haven't received a second reply from vB.

Today I sent a brand new sales request to vB with all the info they asked for in the previous discussion. If I don't hear from them within 48 hours I will be asking them for a refund for both the vB5 license and the Paid Install/Upgrade service.

I would like to stay with vB, I am familiar with it, already paid for the license, service and for a custom template for vB5 that replicates CGN's colors and theme.
But we can not wait for them any longer so either they sh!t or get off the damn pot.

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Announcements and Suggestions / Latest Software Update, umm.. Update
« on: December 19, 2023, 12:37:40 PM »
After some back and forth getting SSH (Shell Access) set up and working for the vBulleting Support team I received this email today.

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Thanks. working on the upgrade.

It sounds like if things go right we will be getting an updated Calguns for Christmas.

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Announcements and Suggestions / Slow downs and outages on CGN
« on: January 01, 2023, 05:52:23 PM »
As of today our host company, GeoVario/Professional Edge, is shutting down their hosting business.

Because of some personal family issues I was delayed in finding a new host and getting us moved.

GV/PE is keeping our servers alive beyond the close of business while we arrange the transfer but with the other servers going down we will likely have some periods of slow loading or relatively brief outages.

Likely this upcoming week we will be moving to the new dedicated server which will mean a day of being offline between moving and the DNS repopulating.

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Server Move and Outage Reports / Re: .net outage 7/18/2021
« on: July 18, 2021, 05:02:55 PM »
Latest from the Hosting Company:  It appears to be a flood request attacks of some type.  Or you have a site trying to clone you, not sure yet.

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Server Move and Outage Reports / Re: .net outage 7/18/2021
« on: July 18, 2021, 04:29:40 PM »
It's having intermittent connections but is still down for the most part.

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Server Move and Outage Reports / .net outage 7/18/2021
« on: July 18, 2021, 04:17:32 PM »
I've noticed that .net is down, it seems there is an issue contacting the file server even from the hosting control panel.

I'm working on it.

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Server Move and Outage Reports / Re: .NET certificates expired?
« on: December 03, 2020, 05:29:03 PM »
Yeah, I'm renewing the SSL Certificate but Network Solutions wants some files from the host.

I'll get it going as quick as I can.

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Server Move and Outage Reports / Re: CG.NET Down?
« on: April 05, 2019, 10:03:01 AM »
Apparently we're having issues due to the age of the vBulletin software and the older versions of PHP and MySQL needed to run it.

I think we're going to need to update the software in the very near future.

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Server Move and Outage Reports / Re: .Org just took a dump! (2/12/18)
« on: February 12, 2018, 12:32:28 PM »
I'm cleaning up my shared server account which is what org is hosted on. I'm removing a bunch of old and outdated personal stuff and shifting the account from my personal domain to the Calguns.org domain.
Things got a bit wonky until I moved a few files in to their new home and the rest caught up to the move.

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Server Move and Outage Reports / Re: Slow loading 6/29/17 17:30?
« on: June 29, 2017, 05:43:27 PM »
:-\ dang

Yes, NRA/CRPA won their injunction!

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Server Move and Outage Reports / Re: Slow loading 6/29/17 17:30?
« on: June 29, 2017, 05:36:08 PM »
Son of a BITCH!!

Okay I'm on it.

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Server Move and Outage Reports / Slow loading 6/29/17 17:30?
« on: June 29, 2017, 05:32:42 PM »
Anyone else having a hard time loading the site?

I'm afraid I may have crashed the site with the news of the injunction in the Duncan v. Becerra case!

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Server Move and Outage Reports / Re: 2/06/17 server down
« on: February 06, 2017, 09:52:20 PM »
Ruh Roh...


Error 500: Internal Server Error
The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request.

The problem is on the server side, not with your browser or the address. Most probably, a certain service (e.g., Tomcat engine) is down. Please contact your webmaster.

 :-\

It's not easy keeping those Tomcat engines running, ask Iran...

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Server Move and Outage Reports / Re: 2/06/17 server down
« on: February 06, 2017, 09:41:40 PM »
I'm working on it!

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Server Move and Outage Reports / Re: 2nd outage of 2017
« on: January 05, 2017, 11:30:41 PM »
It looks like our Tech Staff opened up the case and threatened to pour saltwater in to it if the server didn't start behaving.

We're back up.

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Server Move and Outage Reports / Re: 2nd outage of 2017
« on: January 05, 2017, 11:14:51 PM »
Looks like there is a hiccup in the file server, I've sent a message to PE to kick the rack and see if that jars anything loose.

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Server Move and Outage Reports / Re: 2nd outage of 2017
« on: January 05, 2017, 11:10:26 PM »
WTF!?! I was just on the forum??

Okay, let me see what's going on.

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Server Move and Outage Reports / Re: Yes we're down, yes I'm an idiot.
« on: October 20, 2016, 11:59:59 AM »
Okay, we're back up.

It turns out I didn't do as much damage as I thought but it was enough to screw things up for a bit.

A MASSIVE thank you to Michael at Professional Edge for jumping on this and getting us back up and running, you rock Michael!

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Server Move and Outage Reports / Re: Yes we're down, yes I'm an idiot.
« on: October 20, 2016, 11:24:06 AM »
Any ETA as to when .net may be back up?

Hopefully soon but I'm stepping back from this one and letting the guys at GeoVario/Professional Edge handle it.
I think I've done enough damage for today.

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Server Move and Outage Reports / Re: Yes we're down, yes I'm an idiot.
« on: October 20, 2016, 11:18:47 AM »
Still down or is this new?

This one is new but I've been an idiot for some time now.

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Server Move and Outage Reports / Re: Yes we're down, yes I'm an idiot.
« on: October 20, 2016, 11:14:59 AM »
In other words: User error. ;)

I think they call it an '1D01T Error'...

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See my thread above, this was pure pilot idiocy (error).

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Server Move and Outage Reports / Yes we're down, yes I'm an idiot.
« on: October 20, 2016, 11:04:30 AM »
We're down, I did something stupid trying to clean up the server by getting rid of an old test database.

By all rights what I did should have just deleted the test database but as soon as I clicked 'go' it all went to shit.

Restore is happening and we should be up soon.

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Server Move and Outage Reports / Re: Oct 19 slow load/not loading
« on: October 19, 2016, 07:57:12 PM »
.NET broke again? I just pmed kes and it broke. or I got banned.

I was just reading your PM and went to post and BAM down.

Let me see what the heck is going on.

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Server Move and Outage Reports / Re: Oct 17 2016 -- OMG, IDA*, WTF?
« on: October 17, 2016, 07:21:02 PM »
showing it has been down for almost 8 hours

No way, I was just deleting spam on it about 20 minutes ago.

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Server Move and Outage Reports / Re: Oct 17 2016 -- OMG, IDA*, WTF?
« on: October 17, 2016, 07:17:40 PM »
It looks like the file server is having a hiccup.

The database seems fine.

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Server Move and Outage Reports / Re: CGN having issues loading
« on: September 28, 2016, 12:19:16 AM »
 For some reason there seems to be a large amount of full table scan sorts going on in the database that are causing time outs.

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