Scheduled maintenance, Wednesday morning, October 22

[Daniel J. Lewis]

Yes, the forums having been crashing more than a sugar-stuffed kid a an insurance presentation.

I’ll be doing a rebuild Wednesday morning to fix these things. I’m switching some backend technology to something more reliable.

All Noodle.mx Network websites will be completely offline for about 30–60 minutes.

[Daniel J. Lewis]

The rebuild is complete and the website should be more stable.

This should also fix the problem of missing emails—subscribed threads, reply notifications, direct messages, and sign-up confirmations.

Technical details, in case you care:

I had moved our web-hosting from an expensive, managed, WordPress-optimized host to a self-managed VPS. This should save us significant money each month. But I was a bit too focused on the fastest performance and chose HHVM to run PHP instead of standard PHP or the more optimized PHP-FPM. Unfortunately, HHVM isn’t 100% compatible with things like our backup system. It also didn’t have adequate email sending. And as you could tell, this was not very stable as the website would crash about every thirty minutes. HHVM has no built-in mechanism to reboot itself, so I had to place a monitor to reboot it when it would crash, but there would still be a minute delay. So I rebuilt the VPS, this time with a more tried and tested collection of backend technology. It should be far more stable and still give us performance improvements and better reliability than before.

Thank you for your patience!

[RumplesGirl]

All of that was gobbledy gook, but sure. Whatever you say, O Great and Powerful Oz

"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

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