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Recent content by Tracy

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    Best Whois Protection Service

    Comes free with CloudFlare registration services. And yes, I use it for the domains that allow it.
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    Forum Portals

    You might want to look into a product that is more closely integrated if you have users that sign up on the blog if that blog is WordPress or similar.
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    Forum Portals

    That's why I use a link directory add-on now but niche related for vendors, forums and such similar to what is in use here. I never found a lot of use for those sites that had them. I find a directory structure friendlier.
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    Dedicated

    I use it for my personal email on a domain we have had over 22 years.. but honestly, for use with transactional email it costs more than it is worth. I would not say it is the "best" way... but it is more easily configured. I prefer to use either SES (for my primary site and was a REAL pain in...
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    Dedicated

    At $16 a month unmanaged. You can figure on an average of around $50-$70 a month for quality management, and if you don't want to use cPanel, good luck finding someone that does it. ;) And yes, I've managed all my VPS/dedicated serve instances since I started having sites on the internet...
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    Dedicated

    My astro site is currently running on an OVH KimSufi dedicated server. Hardware was above what I could get in a VPS for the same price, and since I have regular backups if the older hardware totally bites the bullet I am out no more than 24 hours of posts.... unless it craps out during the...
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    Updating PHP

    I recently was involved in a convo with a person who runs a site. Their hosting provider "upgraded" them to PHP 8.4. And since they are running an older version of Xenforo 2.2 it took a massive crap on itself. The biggest issue... the hosting provider should not have taken it upon themselves...
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    MariaDB now powers 51.54% of WordPress sites, overtaking MySQL's 47.88%

    Honestly... MariaDB and their licensing arrangements have resulted in much of this. MySQL got, as my grandfather used to say, "too big for their britches" and thought they had more "impact" on infrastructure than they actually did. A couple of the medical clinics I do work with used software...
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    XenForo versus Discord

    That's one thing that really worries me now. I like rib-eye too much to get AGS. And living in Texas.. this is one of the most common ticks in our area.
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    XenForo versus Discord

    Thanks. This is the first "bug" I've had in over a decade... and it has NOT been fun. :poop: Yah... Discourse is a solid competitor to Xenforo for a forum based offering. Discord... have zero use for it personally but I know some support sites that prefer to use it for developer conversations...
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    Members Online

    I was getting a LOT of bots scanning for Wordpress related links and such from several Chinese IP's. I have a lengthy CF list of ASN's that are challenged and then a decent list of partial URL's that are actually blocked as they have no bearing on anything served from the sites I use them on...
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    XenForo versus Discord

    Brain fart on my part... I am referring to Discourse. Only excuse.. been fighting a stomach bug for about a week and my attention span is not on much more than the toilet. As for Discord. Don't use it as I have no need for group chat functions. My business is taken care of via email or...
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    XenForo versus Discord

    I own as much with my Discord install as I do with my Xenforo install. Both are self hosted. I'll have to beg to disagree in many aspects. And this does not look much different than any XF forum I have visited. And in some ways, it offers more in its built in search than other paid...
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    XenForo versus Discord

    If all you want is a simplistic modern discussion forum then I lean towards Discourse. It is more modern in appearance from a user perspective. Much of the moderation is user trust based. It has a single-page application design, which it appears that the younger crowd likes more than the...
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    Custom Emojis, Icons, Etc.

    I no longer use any custom ones. The main reason if you migrate software, they don't generally follow along. Also, it's a lot easier to use the built in emoji, especially for those that use the Unicode Standard as they translate across most all devices.
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