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Board technical update

Post by DG » Tue Mar 01, 2016 6:11 pm

This message board is migrating from a datacentre in the USA to one in London over the next few days. Hopefully the move will be seamless and there will be no disruption, but if it goes offline for a while in the next 48 hours or so, this will be the reason.
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Re: Board technical update

Post by DG » Tue Mar 01, 2016 10:00 pm

Well, they broke it for a while, but it should be fixed again now. Apologies for the outage.
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Re: Board technical update

Post by Esox Lucius » Tue Mar 01, 2016 10:12 pm

So far so good :D
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Re: Board technical update

Post by Tunga » Tue Mar 01, 2016 11:43 pm

Just in case you're not aware, the forums were happily announcing the local SQL username on the error page during the downtime which is not exactly ideal from a security viewpoint.

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Re: Board technical update

Post by wrinklyhoop » Wed Mar 02, 2016 6:43 am

Tunga wrote:Just in case you're not aware, the forums were happily announcing the local SQL username on the error page during the downtime which is not exactly ideal from a security viewpoint.
Plus the password :shock:
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Re: Board technical update

Post by DG » Wed Mar 02, 2016 8:26 am

Yes, thanks. Both changed now as a new installation was done.
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Re: Board technical update

Post by smashandgrab » Wed Mar 02, 2016 10:06 am

Seems to be working again, but no-one is posting?
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Re: Board technical update

Post by Tunga » Wed Mar 02, 2016 4:19 pm

wrinklyhoop wrote:Plus the password :shock:
I don't believe that was the actual password, it was just an indication that a password was being used. But always better to be safe so good to hear that they've been changed :) .

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Re: Board technical update

Post by DG » Wed Mar 02, 2016 4:37 pm

Tunga wrote:
wrinklyhoop wrote:Plus the password :shock:
I don't believe that was the actual password, it was just an indication that a password was being used. But always better to be safe so good to hear that they've been changed :) .
That's correct. The 'YES' just meant it was password protected. :-)
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Re: Board technical update

Post by Highness1295 » Mon Mar 14, 2016 7:53 am

Tunga wrote:Just in case you're not aware, the forums were happily announcing the local SQL username on the error page during the downtime which is not exactly ideal from a security viewpoint.
That is good to hear.

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