************Update*********** I have monitored the forum over the last 24 hours and identified the slowness and down time was due to our web host and the internet in general, we also seemed to be getting a lot of page hits from a particular ip which suggests spamming,, I have attached the report which tells how quickly the forum pages responded by location,, you might be surprised how many places in the world actually look at us p.s the list is a short version Average Performance by Location Performance/Response Average by Locations in Seconds MN, USA 4.6658 NY, USA 12.5523 London, UK 6.2063 CA, USA 5.0407 FL, USA 13.38 Montreal, Canada 7.2293 Frankfurt, Germany 25.6853 CO, USA 6.575 TX, USA 10.4923 Amsterdam, Netherlands 8.226 Tel-Aviv, Israel 10.3363 VA, USA 20.173 Amazon-US-East 5.8087 Paris, France 8.4917 Mumbai, India 28.8253 Copenhagen, Denmark 18.217 Warsaw, Poland 19.9053 WA, USA 8.0803 Overall 12.2162 The response times are not great but ok considering the down time from our host, what my be required is to use a different hosting provider if things don't improve.. Thanks for you patience John..
Thanks for all the work you do on the forum John! Did something happen to the winter style format? It is what I always use, but it was gone when I logged in so my page looked completely different.
Your welcome Cathy yes I had to remove winter,autumn and mist themes due to a corruption error they were continually reporting errors to our server so really not worth collecting useless data from them over and over again..
Then can you change the view of the forum or take a at least a poll on it. It is all white now and a bit bright and for me hard to read.
Andy you can choose your own style at the bottom left of the screen (style chooser) hopefully one of those will suit..there's no point in a poll the only styles that are currently working is the default style and the ones you can choose yourself..
The Forum ran into a few problems with the proposed update looks like the expert from xenforo wants us to do the hard work before they do the upgrade Unfortunately I am doing quite a bit of studying for my new career at the minute and would not have the time to sort out all the little glitches before the upgrade Could any members of the forum who have experience in the list below step forward and help out ??? (Mothers Calling) Experience in SQL PHP software (preferably xenforo) FTTP Servers Database admin/backup Please pm myself or Padraig if you can help out.. Many thanks..
Ok folks seeing no one was prepared to step up to the block I threw myself on the line.. you will probably notice the forum looks a little bit different i.e avatars are square etc and the recent post sidebar is now showing recent posts in order..hopefully I have not broke anything the main problem with server errors and template problems should now be resolved.. thanks for your patinece
Sometimes the same old is better then the same new. Signed Mumbo jumbo... new name given to me by Saint Mac
Thank you, I noticed the problem with the it not showing the posts in most recent order - this seems to occur when I backed out of a thread and then I would refresh to get them back in proper order - If you fixed this wonderful! (I didn't want to say anything about it because I figured the work around). PS- Now, if you could only setup the website to automatically delete uncharitable comments from one member to another.
but sometimes the same old gives up it's ghost and is no longer visible now where would that leave you to post your usual rants p.s your welcome btw
Just to thank John for all his hard work. I am afraid he kind of got sucked into all this as it was one thing after another going wrong. He has great patience, plese say a few prayers for John and his family that Our Lady might reward him. I had no idea it would take so much work and bother. It was just so kind of him. May Our Lady bless you John. I think the upgrade must be finihed as the forum looks so different? Thank God I think there was a chance of it going down the tube in the changes.
