@DC. He might not be able to see that post.
I don't actually know what caused it. The forums have been slow to initially load for a few weeks. But once loaded seen to work ok and navigating around or even uploading images are fine.
A couple of times last week the domain wouldn't actually go through to the server, instead going to a domain holding page. Then for a whole morning I was only getting 503 error pages. The forum and main site are hosted on the same server and the main site was still working, so it wasn't the server going down. Seemed like a sub domain dns issue. I've emailed server support but they haven't got back to me yet. Other issue could be database related. I will do another full site an db backup this week and run a database oprimisation.
But the reality is this server has been up and running since 2012, so is now 12 years old. Really need to move to a new server or look into VM or cloud servers as an alternative. But I just don't have either the time or money at the moment to do that. Especially as if I did look into a new home for CA I would want to migrate the forum to a better up to date platform. Xenforo being my preferred option.
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I couldn't get the forum to load at all this weekend until now. Just returning a 503 error. Main site would still load but that was taking time to initially respond.
Think this server is on its last legs. Will contact the data centre again tomorrow to try and find out anything. But will start looking around for a replacement.
But if the forum goes offline please remember I will get it back, but if the server fails it might be some time until that happens. Maybe even not until the summer. Hopefully we can limp on as we are until then.
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Just managed to get on here today. Page unavailable at first try this morning...failed for me every time since my last post in here on the 11th March.
Page did refresh eventually & here I am posting.
Not looking at all good H.
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