And then something else

Hi all, I’m aware that links in people’s notify e-mails are not working properly at the moment, it’s something I shall look into very shortly (as soon as I get some time to!) and apologise for the inconvenience in the meantime. At this point I’ve no idea what’s causing it or why it would suddenly…

Hi all,     I've been busy today and managed (I think) to switch the system from using files for storing the various messages into using the database to do the job. Ultimately this will remove over 280,000 files from the filesystem – but that won't happen until I'm happy that the new system is working…

A database query managed to pull the whole site over, resulting in the need to close down and restart the database. Unfortunately when it came back up it decided to overwrite its replication logs from the beginning and as such would have destroyed the backup database replication. I’ve taken a snapshot of the database now…

The server has been moved to a more powerful machine today. In theory no-one will notice any difference because the old server is still serving requests by proxying them through to the new one. The DNS will catch up over the next few days (possibly sooner) and as such everything will hopefully definitely return to…

This has opened up an interesting can of worms. By doing our business in the US, and having our server in the US, according to the FTC and COPPA (which is where the law is cited as requiring parental consent for collecting information about children under 13) DO have jurisdiction over us… Though I think…

And a whole lot more besides. It would seem that the Plesk backup utility is a worthless pile of crap. ( for googles benefit when spidering this article – psadump does not backup everything properly. If you use only psadump and then wipe your system you will lose things ). Fortunately I took a filesystem…