Forum outage

Simon Hampel

Simon Hampel

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Apologies for the extended outage over the past few days.

I've been dealing with multiple Denial of Service (DoS) attacks on my main web server, which has resulted in the server being isolated from the internet by our hosting provider until we can put some DoS mitigation systems in place.

I've moved most of my sites to new servers and separated the more important sites onto their own server - so in future attacks on one site won't take all my sites offline at once.

However, ZooChat is too big to move, so I've had to take a different approach and instead have set up a DoS mitigation service (Cloudflare) to try and minimise the risk of DoS attacks in the future.

Because this makes some fairly significant changes to the way the site works from a networking perspective, there may be things I haven't tested for yet which don't work the way they should.

So please let me know if you find anything which isn't working as expected or gives unusual results.

I'd also be interested in feedback on whether you're finding the site faster and more responsive - part of the benefit of Cloudflare is a performance boost - any feedback is appreciated.
 
Simon Hampel said:
Because this makes some fairly significant changes to the way the site works from a networking perspective, there may be things I haven't tested for yet which don't work the way they should.

So please let me know if you find anything which isn't working as expected or gives unusual results.
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OK, so yesterday I uploaded 40 photos to the new gallery for Caversham Wildlife Park. However, they don't appear in the New Media page/folder, when I go to look at all My Media, they aren't in there, but they are still in the Caversham gallery and credited to me.

But after 24 hours nobody has looked at them (except me) because nobody knows they're there.

:p

Hix
 
Hix said:
OK, so yesterday I uploaded 40 photos to the new gallery for Caversham Wildlife Park. However, they don't appear in the New Media page/folder, when I go to look at all My Media, they aren't in there, but they are still in the Caversham gallery and credited to me.

But after 24 hours nobody has looked at them (except me) because nobody knows they're there.

:p

Hix
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Don't forget that photos you upload aren't "new" for you, so don't appear in the new media list.

I can see the photos you uploaded in the new media - they also appear in your media list - Hix

It's possible that when you looked things weren't appearing because they hadn't been fully indexed by the forum yet. I'm pretty sure it's working as expected though.
 
Have the same problem as Hix. Pictures uploaded in the newly created Gallery for Vlindersafari - the Netherlands can only be found by clicking on the Gallery for this place and not in new Media section. Photos which I uploaded after the ones of Vlindersafari in an existing Gallery ( in this case Prague Zoo CAN be found in the new Media section so I think something isn't working as it should.
 
@simon, I am glad you are on top of things and hopefully fixing the remaining issues and the transfer of websites for Zoochat will run smoothly. Thanks for all the effort.
 
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