Forum Downtime Today 18th November

[sleepy]

Update:

We failed to do this last Friday due to unforeseen circumstances (ie. things didn't go to plan).

We are going to try again this afternoon (18/11/2014).

The forum will be switched off for a period of time tomorrow morning whilst we change things around a bit and move over to our new hosting infrastructure

The servers that TFF is currently running on has not changed much at all since we launched but traffic has grown many hundred-fold. The site has got gradually slower and we are hoping the new infrastructure will give it a massive speed boost especially loading images for our overseas visitors in US / Canada / New Zealand etc.

We will also be fully redundant, whereby we will have multiple servers in London all capable of handling the full forum, and if something really bad happens in London (where our main datacentre is), we will be able to fail over to a second facility in the US.

This is just the start of lots of new things to be rolled out over the next few months so keep your eyes peeled

 

[B&B Pig Man]

So my app's no longer working (android) - is that due to upgrade or because of our current broadband issues?

Is it any better this morning?

The apps are slow to 'realign' themselves when upgrades like this are done.
Time should sort it.

 

[Johnny400]

Mines working again now (iphone)

 

[Poorbuthappy]

Is it any better this morning?

The apps are slow to 'realign' themselves when upgrades like this are done.
Time should sort it.

Yep
Life can return to normal!

 

[Clive]

A small update as to why some of you could be experiencing issues. As part of yesterdays maintenance, we moved to new servers, in order to make the platform more stable. I'm really sorry this hasn't been the case for a few of you!

The change involved telling "the internet" that we were going to move servers elsewhere. This is like when you move address and you ask the post office to forward all your mail somewhere else now. Unfortunately in this scenario there's loads of post offices to tell, and they take a little while to make the change.

This change didn't involve any password changes or how the passwords are stored, so you should be able to login via whatever passwords you previously had. If you can't then please try resetting your password, if that still doesn't work please let us know and we'll investigate further.

Hopefully all the post offices will sort themselves out soon! Apologies again for the inconvenience caused.

 

[Landyman]

Been sweet as a nut this end, only one slight issue with me being logged out, but it could have been me, its been a long night

 

[Cowabunga]

The Post Office seems to have confiscated all the smileys apart from the scratchy-head one.

 

[rc mx110]

they work here

 

[Cowabunga]

they work here

Not on Safari on my iMac they don't. Still only got the head-scratcher. There's a lot of blank space above him and it will insert blank spaces in the text, of about five character equivalents long. I've shut Safari down and restarted, to no avail. Luckily, the little chap is the one I use most.

Regards

Confused Foul of Ceredigion.

 

[B&B Pig Man]

Has everybody clearing their cache?

 

[alan01252]

For anyone struggling with smilies try opening this link in a new window:

http://thefarmingforum.co.uk/css.php?css=xenforo,form,public&style=1&dir=LTR&d=1416415328

and then press control + f5 at the same time. That will refresh the cache where the smilies are kept

 

[KennyO]

@alan01252 just getting this in the address bar when using firefox

http://maintenance.thefarmingforum.co.uk/

and forum doesn't load

 

[alan01252]

There's a few things you can try in order of uhhh complexity

1. Open up your history in firefox, find http://thefarmingforum.co.uk and press "forget about this site"

2. Try pressing the following buttons "Menu-> Options -> Advanced ->Network -> Clear Now"

3. Try navigating to a longer url like this "http://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?members/kennyo.822/" if that works, then press ctrl + f5 once it's loaded!

Let me know if that works

 

[KennyO]

There's a few things you can try in order of uhhh complexity

1. Open up your history in firefox, find http://thefarmingforum.co.uk and press "forget about this site"

2. Try pressing the following buttons "Menu-> Options -> Advanced ->Network -> Clear Now"

3. Try navigating to a longer url like this "http://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?members/kennyo.822/" if that works, then press ctrl + f5 once it's loaded!

Let me know if that works

That's it sorted thanks

 

[deere66]

Why can't I view Off Topic?

 

[Robigus]

Why can't I view Off Topic?

Because it has become and embarrassment to those in charge..................