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  1. Tracy

    How often do you have to upgrade your server?

    Not going to happen with provider supplied equipment. You will be obtaining a new server that supports the hardware configuration you want. The only time you will get motherboard "hands-on" swap-out is generally when their is a MB failure on the hardware that the vendor is supplying. And if...
  2. Tracy

    Do any forum software compare to Xenforo?

    No, generally if you want to use the latest "add-ons" you have to update to the latest Xenforo (specifically in the case of XenAddons offerings). That was the only reason I upgraded my site to the 2.3.x line was the add-ons. It sure wasn't because of anything that Xenforo brought to the table...
  3. Tracy

    How often do you have to upgrade your server?

    "Scaling up" is easier on a VPS instance than a dedicated server. The only way generally to "scale up" up dedicated hardware that you do not own is grabbing another server instance that has the hardware requirements you want and migrating over to it. Sometimes a hosting provider can help with...
  4. Tracy

    Do any forum software compare to Xenforo?

    Only if you have multiple licenses apparently, or they forgot to update their website. ;)
  5. Tracy

    Do any forum software compare to Xenforo?

    It's not suspended... it's invalidated and you have to buy a new license if you don't renew in 2 years. Their reasoning behind this from what I understood was allegedly to help pay for the self-hosted option as they had clients that were not renewing regularly and might go 2-3 years before they...
  6. Tracy

    Do any forum software compare to Xenforo?

    My biggest issue with Xenforo is their glacially slow pace of end user feature updates. But a lot of that is their core dependence on outside developers to extend the bare-bones features they typically do offer. This habit of offering a basic implementation of something instead of taking the...
  7. Tracy

    Forum Feedback AAF is really slow to respond

    For me, it's never been a regular issue. But it usually is early in the AM (Central Time) that I notice it since I am usually up at night and asleep during the day.
  8. Tracy

    Forum Feedback AAF is really slow to respond

    Just for an update.. at about 6AM CST this site really becomes slow.
  9. Tracy

    Ideology Central

    Yes, we dared. We have opened up some political discussion areas. Same rules of combat apply as the others areas. No low blows and reasonable, well articulated discussions welcome. Cult fanaticism will be watched for and most likely moderated) as it occurs.
  10. Tracy

    MyBB Choosing MyBB

    With the plethora of better scripts (most more modern feeling/looking) there is no way I'd use myBB. If I wanted a "free/open source" old style forum I would look at SMF. For a nice, easy to manage and use forum script I really have gotten to enjoy NodeBB. The editor is different since it is...
  11. Tracy

    What did you drink last?

    Not a "storm" but we did get a few small flakes falling. Being in East Texas area where I am, we don't usually get snow even when other areas do.
  12. Tracy

    Better Off Topic Sections

    And that's my argument why if you use XF, having individual forums, with many possibly empty is foolish. And it is not necessary with XF. That's the beauty of the prefix setup that it uses. You can click on any of those prefixes and the only posts you see are those using that prefix. It does...
  13. Tracy

    What's new? (General Chit-Chat Thread)

    I forgot how much "fun" replacing a gas water heater can be. Last one was about 8 years ago. New one had me going back and forth for parts to "upgrade" my plumbing to what the new heater needed. I spent just about as much time driving for/picking up parts as I did putting the thing in. :p
  14. Tracy

    Forum Feedback AAF is really slow to respond

    I don't know if I would call cookie stuffing malicious code. There have been numerous others that did similar to that in the past. Anyone that has used any blackhat SEO methods aren't that much better. And as for "criminals"... some do. Remember, what he did at the time wasn't that egregious...
  15. Tracy

    Forum Feedback AAF is really slow to respond

    So, you have CDN distribution points spread throughout the world for delivery? You know, like in the EU for any EU visitors, Canada for Canadian, S. Africa for S. Africa and such? ;) I'm pretty sure that the CF CDN is a tad bit more robust and widespread. Multhomed is great for redundancy, but...
  16. Tracy

    Forum Feedback AAF is really slow to respond

    CF is more than just for DDOS. And it does more than what a router on someones network stack can do. It is also a CDN, which speeds content delivery up since if you are using caching it serves from a local pool to the user. CF gets as "aggressive" as you have the settings set at. That's one of...
  17. Tracy

    Most Money Spent?

    For about a year I was spending almost $300 on a server that was capable of doing VPS configuration for what amounted to commercial VPS hosting (and hosting some sites for free while they looked for a long term hosting provider). I decided I didn't want to get into that and kept the server for...
  18. Tracy

    Index Now

    Be sure to check your web server logs. It could be also be as simple as a firewall setting not allowing connection from their IP. I got caught by that recently since MS is also like Amazon and has servers from their IP blocks that they "rent space" on. I did an ASN block due some bot abuse...
  19. Tracy

    Forum Feedback AAF is really slow to respond

    I have noticed a few periods of really slow interaction also. I forget which day it was but when I checked my internet speed I was getting my 1Gbps down and a loaded latency of 28ms. It was only on this site that I observed the issue. A few hours later it was working fine, so odds are it was...
  20. Tracy

    Index Now

    And that could be down to a multitude of things, not all of which are on the end of the IndexNow server (which I assume we are talking about Bing). I also have a feeling that they don't return a 500 error for throttling but a 429 (too many requests) if it is due to rate limiting. And remember...
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