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Quick update - MariaDB upgraded to 10.5. Working on the next upgrade, so there will be another restart.

This afternoon and evening were interesting server wise. Still working out why the backup triggered a full on slowdown with the database.

Greetings everyone, and welcome to phpBB 3.3.15 on php 8.3!

I have at least one more upgrade to make later in the week, and that's to update the version of MariaDB on the server this site is hosted on. That will impact all customers though, so I'm holding off a bit longer on that until ...

This is a test of the upgraded posting system!

Early Warning!!! - I'm upgrading both the phpBB version and the MariaDB version later this afternoon (8/24).

As Cobalt noted, we had a few hours of limited availability overnight, but every indication is that the boards are getting hit really hard right now even with CloudFlare in front of them. I ...

Update on yesterdays (8/20) downtime availability - I believe most of the issue was due to another background process running, a server backup. I continue to monitor the server daily right now.

The biggest concern is that our version of phpBB is rather old at this point, and I'm basically running ...

And a little more good news - The Anti-Virus and Malware scanner has been updated and installed. Macrossrpg.com is reporting as clean! I'm still running a full scan of other sites, and force upgrading a few out of date WordPress instances (which might be the problem too).

Either way, I'm still ...

Hey everyone, quick Sunday update.

For the most part the server has been behaving over the weekend, with my automated monitoring not triggering any alerts. Linode has reported several instances of high CPU utilization, but I haven't noticed anything other than slowness at times.

One item that I ...

Greetings everyone,

Apologies, but the Server is currently struggling to behave. I'm investigating on and off as I get reports of issues, but I'm also seeing that it might be time to get some upgrades done. I'm hoping to get later into the weekend when I have some time for the upgrade before ...

Greetings everyone, just a general overall update - I'm going to be out of town for a few weeks and while I should have full internet access and all of the usual monitoring that I have for the servers, I just wanted folks aware. I believe Cobalt has my personal cell if needed!

Hi everyone,

I finally made it back to the site this evening to find that it sounds likes things are working again. I did see several warnings about cross http/https images, but I'm glad that the dropbox image fix appears to be working.

Hi everyone!

Thank you for the email Cobalt, I'm going to be looking a bit more on this later.

But the quick diagnosis is that the browsers and the two sites themselves are behaving as expected due to HTTPS restrictions. I'm receiving Mixed Content not allowed warnings, as in the images start with ...

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year everyone!

MacrossCentral, Macross Fan Central, the Macross Delta and several other Macross Fan Pages on Facebook have been posting the following Google Translate versions posted by Conrad Pi.

Unraveling the year 2068 - Macross Delta power balance
https://macrossrpg.com/img/macross-delta-movie-2/macross ...

I use Signal, Discord and Slack.

Discord: Lanji#2980

Greetings everyone,

While we haven't been having any issues, as some of you know this version of phpBB is rather old. Because I had to actually downgrade PHP to get it working, and I now have a few weeks to work on things (for once), I'm going to be testing making a fully site and database backup ...

Hot off the press: https://macross.jp/b2b/


April 9, 2021, Tokyo, Japan: Landmark agreement between the anime companies will allow immediate international distribution of most Macross television sequels and films, while affirming Harmony Gold’s rights to the Robotech franchise. Both companies will ...

Very Merry Late Christmas (and a Happy New Year) to everyone!

Quick update today, we did see a Disk Space issue with the server. It was resolved quickly, and we're back up and running.

Apologies for the issue!

-Lanji

Greetings everyone!

I realize its been quite a while since I last posted, but I wanted to give everyone a general update on a few things from my side.

Over the next few weeks I'm actually going to be in the process of relocating 80%+ of the time from my long time home in Cheyenne, WY to Aurora ...

And more good news, the MRC Docs (MediaWiki) is now also back online and operating as expected!

With that complete, the next round of things will be to Upgrade the Boards, Wiki, and then consider what future projects we want to put in place.

Any thoughts from folks who are still here?

-Lanji

Greetings everyone,

A fuller post as a Global Sticky here is: http://macrossrpg.com/comms/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=8654

I'm posting this partially as a test, and partially to see if it updates the database as I expect.

Once again, as my other post states, my sincerest apologies for the extended ...

Greetings everyone,

After nearly 6 months, I'm finally happy to announce that the MRC Forums are finally back up and running!

A fuller report will come out as soon as I can, but as part of a test I wanted to get this post made (successfully) tonight before finally turning in.

In the face of the ...

Hi everyone,

I didn't see a note on this but at Anime Expo last week Harmony Gold announced that they have renewed the Robotech License including the three parts that makeup Robotech including Macross.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2019-07-05/harmony-gold-renews-license-to-1st-macross ...

Hi everyone,

A few quick updates.

I've identified and discussed with the user that has been causing the majority of the Database downtime / disk drive full issues recently. I've worked with them to backup their data to another set of servers, and its going well so far, but we're still monitoring ...