cuda2k

Decided to start a fresh thread for status / updates on the renewed (and hopefully lasting) improvements progress. As mentioned in the 'VeloBase.com is Gone' thread - I just pre-paid for three years of hosting on this new hosting provider. I have my fingers crossed this will result in fewer issues once the dust settles, and I'm thankful to those who have donated to the site's costs over the years.

• I've fixed several server errors that were due to incompatibilities between the database and code version in use. These were probably present on the old site for a while... regardless hopefully most pages are loading correctly now and I have a working error log again to review errors.
• If you encounter page errors, please reply here so I can look into it this week, my goal is to do one or two deploys with as many fixes as I can over the next week or two (including the two items below)
• Update 7/5/21 7PM CST: Deployed a new version (2.8.3) with several small code fixes, mostly continuing to remove the Forum & Marketplace (both of which I've discontinued for the foreseeable future) from the site.
• Site was down evening of 7/9 - mid-day 7/10: Appears the site was 'over memory usage' allowed by the new host. The only memory hogging thing I can find is resizing images on upload. Added better memory management (ie: threw a ton of garbage collection at it) that seems to be helping that locally... let's hope it's enough.
• Contact Us page is working again, and so should receiving the emails for new users. If you still have problems enabling your account, send me an email and I'll get you enabled.
• 7/11: Site was disabled again this evening due to memory usage. Seems this new host can't keep up with the traffic on the site. Sent a rather strongly worded email to the support.
  

1. Fixed 7/6: Photo Uploads still need to be fixed, appears that the version of the code that is compatible with this database is still using Flash, which is no longer supported and officially killed across the web (with good reason). So I need to go dig through my new code and see if I can transfer over the Photo Manager upgrades fairly quickly.
2. Known Issue: I heard from one new user that the User Registration Email Verification isn't working, likely due to the lack of a ssl certificate - something else that got lost when all that stuff happened back in December. I'll be looking at this asap as well so new users will be properly setup. - first attempt at fixing this deployed evening of 7/5 - VeloBase 2.8.3
3. Known Issue: User Menu occasionally becomes not functional - not sure what triggers this, but wasn't working for me this morning, then suddenly it started again. Will research. - appears to be https/ssl related, if you encounter, check url for http rather than http until I get ssl setup
4. Fixed 7/10: Contact Us page is not sending email, contact me here or at the email address listed on the Contact Us page.

8/15: Photos are back up and running, photo uploads should be working, I'm working through testing those to be sure. At some point I'm going to have to disable add/edit functionality one more time to transfer the databases, but for the moment I'm letting the dust settle.
8/15: There does seem to be some minor issues with the List page. I think Search is working, but looking at a list of components just by a category doesn't want to page correctly. I'm sure this is related to all the caching I had to yank out to get the Memory issues fixed. I'll get that fixed asap.
8/15: I'm also working on getting SSL back up and running, waiting on a response from the certificate issuer.
8/20: Still working on getting SSL up and running, seems my request for a new certificate got lost somewhere, so got to restart that. Also at some point this weekend I'm going to try to get the database swapped over, then get any updates from the database backup from July4-July20th integrated in. That will take some manual effort since I can't link servers and copy directly.
9/4: SSL up and running! Enabled HTTPS redirects so all users should now be landing on the secure site.
9/5: Database copy and cut over completed. System responsiveness seems greatly improved over using the old database on the new hosting we'd been on for the last several weeks.