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Website Maintenance Update: Friday Aug 7 9am-Noon US MDT

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  • Aug 6, 2020 at 6:51 pm #3669435
    Ryan Jordan
    Admin

    @ryan

    Locale: Central Rockies

    FYI

    The backpackinglight.com website will be undergoing server maintenance on Friday August 7 from 9am to Noon US MDT. For a small (several minute) window during this period, the site will be inaccessible and you may see a “maintenance mode” message.

    Aug 6, 2020 at 7:07 pm #3669438
    rubmybelly!
    BPL Member

    @sleeping

    Locale: The Cascades

    Thanks for the update.

    Aug 6, 2020 at 7:22 pm #3669441
    Nick Gatel
    BPL Member

    @ngatel

    Locale: Southern California

    Yes, thank you.

    Aug 7, 2020 at 10:56 am #3669739
    Ryan Jordan
    Admin

    @ryan

    Locale: Central Rockies

    Update: the bulk of the update is done, we’ll continue with some testing for the next few hours and I’ll report back here when things are back to normal. In the meantime, I don’t expect anymore downtime.

    Aug 7, 2020 at 1:05 pm #3669756
    Ryan Jordan
    Admin

    @ryan

    Locale: Central Rockies

    This morning’s update involved moving the backpackinglight.com website to our new server. This move went smoothly with no hiccups and involved about 45 minutes of downtime between 10:00 am and 10:45 am US MDT.

    Most users will notice dramatic improvements in site speed, especially in the forums (including posting new topics or replies). In most of our benchmark tests this morning, most pages are loading twice as fast or faster. Forum posting time is now averaging one-third of what it was before the move.

    This will lay a good foundation for building the new site, which will come with additional speed improvements as well as we rewrite our codebase.

    Aug 7, 2020 at 1:51 pm #3669774
    Ken Thompson
    BPL Member

    @here

    Locale: Right there

    Good news. Though I would like to say that I’ve never experienced these long page loading times I keep hearing about and seem to be the main focus of upgrading. And I’m on this site daily and have been for 15+ years.

    Aug 8, 2020 at 3:49 pm #3669943
    rubmybelly!
    BPL Member

    @sleeping

    Locale: The Cascades

    Not sure if it’s just a weird blip, but within the last few minutes posting was again slowed to crawling levels, and I got a bad gateway message, after a lengthy period of nothing after the click, just clicking on recent forum topics.

    Aug 8, 2020 at 3:53 pm #3669944
    Ryan Jordan
    Admin

    @ryan

    Locale: Central Rockies

    Sorry about that, Doug. That was me :)

    I was doing some routine maintenance and hit the wrong button to perform a database cleanup query that I usually only run when the site is in maintenance mode.

    I may need to increase the prescription on my reading glasses 😂

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