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jonastio
May 3rd, 2016, 12:03 AM
So, we've been with our webhost for a bit now and they've done us pretty well. As technology does it's thing, stuff gets cheaper and available resources grow. I am running a demo on a hosting service I've subscribed to for a stupid-cheap price. The server has twice the resources available. The only caveat is that it's located in Ontario, CA. Now, I've checked with them and they've got no problem hosting a gun community website that also does private sales of firearms. Legally, it shouldn't be an issue either. If I'm happy with the system in the next week or two, I might move the website to there. Now, you guys shouldn't notice any difference. It should still be nice and peppy. The best part, it's a third of the cost of what I'm paying now. Yup. Hosting for $5.25 a month. I mean, it's so ridiculously cheap that it will be simple for even the small amount of advertising that is currently done to cover the fees.

Now, I'm gonna vet it first to make sure it's not one of those "too good to be true" scenarios, but it's pretty awesome.

It's not a guaranteed thing, but just a heads up on where my head is at.

jonastio
May 3rd, 2016, 10:45 AM
Believe me when I say I had and continue to have reservations about it.

Greg Kulbick
May 3rd, 2016, 10:11 PM
Ontario, Canada or Ontario, California?

jonastio
May 4th, 2016, 12:35 AM
Canada. At least it's still east coast so it's still pretty much on some heavy east-coast internet pipe.

jonastio
May 9th, 2016, 05:37 PM
So, I'm pretty happy with the service at the new webhost. I've got the databases between the two sites synced up and going. I'll likely make the swap in the next couple of nights.

NerdSpeak:

The neat thing about the new site is that I'll be using nginx instead of apache. Hopefully this will gain me some performance increases that will balance out the extra time it will take since the server is in Canada.

Cattle/Horses
May 9th, 2016, 05:42 PM
If you are used to apache, you'll LOVE nginx!

polebarn
May 9th, 2016, 05:56 PM
http://cineplex.media.baselineresearch.com/images/314021/314021_full.jpg

jonastio
May 9th, 2016, 11:57 PM
I've made the change, though it might take a good couple of hours before everyone is over on the new host.

If you notice any glitches, give it an hour to see if it clears up. I should be verifying everything here in a while and we should be completely functional in about 12 hours.

jonastio
May 10th, 2016, 12:15 AM
Okay, I've verified that most everything is working. You might notice a touch sluggishness while things are getting underway.

If tapatalk isn't working for you, you might need to reboot your device.

WinterSoldier
May 10th, 2016, 01:04 AM
These are sweeter-tasting electrons, or what?

jonastio
May 10th, 2016, 01:06 AM
66% cheaper electrons.

Evil_McNasty
May 10th, 2016, 08:22 AM
Peppier electrons YO!

jonastio
May 10th, 2016, 08:56 AM
If you are used to apache, you'll LOVE nginx!

Apache has been my bread-and-butter for a while. I still prefer it in an enterprise environment as a front-end to *any* Java application server.

Nginx has been an interesting experience. The config is a bit different and in some ways cleaner. SSL is certainly a hell of a lot easier to deal with.

jonastio
May 10th, 2016, 08:57 AM
If you are used to apache, you'll LOVE nginx!


Hold the phone. How does Captain Flip-Phone know anything about Nginx?!

Jafar
May 10th, 2016, 11:26 AM
Holy shit, Jonas. Since the server is now in Canada, the NSA or any other OGA can seize any and all data without domestic CONUS warrants, correct?

0utlaw
May 10th, 2016, 11:29 AM
:shocked::escape:

e.money83
May 10th, 2016, 11:29 AM
Holy shit, Jonas. Since the server is now in Canada, the NSA or any other OGA can seize any and all data without domestic CONUS warrants, correct?
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/rwby/images/f/fe/Mother-of-god-meme.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140730171830

jonastio
May 10th, 2016, 11:31 AM
They would have to hack into the system first.

Cattle/Horses
May 10th, 2016, 11:32 AM
I think the server is already censoring photo's we've posted. My pic of a Muslim fornicating with the donkey disappeared.

e.money83
May 10th, 2016, 11:38 AM
My pic of a Muslim fornicating with the donkey disappeared.
I can live with that...:puke:

Jafar
May 10th, 2016, 11:41 AM
They would have to hack into the system first.

Oh, ok whew. Thank God they don't do that, ever.

Dale Gribble
May 10th, 2016, 11:42 AM
Citizen, we are here to help you, what do you have to hide?

(you have to speak it in Air Gators voice).

jonastio
May 10th, 2016, 11:57 AM
I think the server is already censoring photo's we've posted. My pic of a Muslim fornicating with the donkey disappeared.
Don't egg him on. You're just going to cause me more work.

Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

Jafar
May 10th, 2016, 12:29 PM
You know how hard it is to type a response when you have a black bag over your head, Jonas? Thanks a lot.

jonastio
May 10th, 2016, 01:32 PM
http://i.imgur.com/myB6O2p.gif

Dale Gribble
May 10th, 2016, 02:25 PM
You know how hard it is to type a response when you have a black bag over your head, Jonas? Thanks a lot.

Just enjoy play time with tacks mom and spare us the damn details, ok?

jonastio
May 10th, 2016, 02:37 PM
Okay, attachments should work again. It was my boo-boo.

Mikec2003
May 10th, 2016, 02:44 PM
i keep getting a security certificate error on my phone. is that related to the move or is my phone retarded?

e.money83
May 10th, 2016, 04:02 PM
i keep getting a security certificate error on my phone. is that related to the move or is my phone retarded?
i got the same thing on mobile. desktop is fine though.

WinterSoldier
May 10th, 2016, 04:25 PM
66% cheaper electrons.

FREE the electrons!!!

e.money83
May 10th, 2016, 04:30 PM
FREE the electrons!!!
Just don't let the smoke out.

jonastio
May 10th, 2016, 04:35 PM
You guys are going to www.capitalcitygunforum.com or just capitalcitygunforum.com. The certificate is for forum.capitalcitygunforum.com. I'll be dealing with the cert for the primary site in the next day or so.

e.money83
May 10th, 2016, 04:39 PM
oh. well then.

Mikec2003
May 10th, 2016, 05:20 PM
You guys are going to www.capitalcitygunforum.com or just capitalcitygunforum.com. The certificate is for forum.capitalcitygunforum.com. I'll be dealing with the cert for the primary site in the next day or so. i tried all 3, same result, and the forum renders all fuckered up, like its a site from 1996

Johnny
May 10th, 2016, 05:37 PM
Mike you going to make the pin shoot?

Mikec2003
May 10th, 2016, 05:42 PM
Not this week. Beer club meeting

jonastio
May 11th, 2016, 12:56 AM
i tried all 3, same result, and the forum renders all fuckered up, like its a site from 1996

I was noodling on it and I think I know what the issue is.

jonastio
May 11th, 2016, 03:01 AM
Okay, I've got the certificate chain set up for the forum in the web service.

Thanks for reporting the issues, folks. Helps me get it fixed.

Mikec2003
May 11th, 2016, 07:12 AM
seems to be working ok now, thanks

Jafar
May 11th, 2016, 05:41 PM
Why's there a vagina beside Tack Driver's Chat?

Jafar
May 11th, 2016, 05:42 PM
I mean, now I'm kinda tempted to go in there. So if that's your plan, you may be a genius Jonas.

jonastio
June 1st, 2016, 01:09 PM
Yeah, I'm looking for a new service.

0utlaw
June 1st, 2016, 02:05 PM
:headslap:

https://memecrunch.com/meme/2C7R8/fuck-canada/image.png?w=400&c=1

jonastio
June 1st, 2016, 02:49 PM
I mean, their support personnel are nice enough, they just don't seem to have their shit together. It took 5 times telling them to update the goddamn time on their server before they looked into it. They don't know how the fuck to configure ipv6 and their disk access is slow as balls.

I'm testing out something now that's pretty much just as inexpensive.

0utlaw
June 1st, 2016, 03:04 PM
In India?

jonastio
June 1st, 2016, 03:27 PM
I just had to check the "yer mom" list before I responded.

We will just say that I had an appropriate comeback to your response.

Cattle/Horses
June 1st, 2016, 03:36 PM
Jonas, log into chat and we will visit about this Canada thing.

jonastio
June 1st, 2016, 04:15 PM
Yes. I noticed. Something is fucky with the host. I get it. I'm working on it.

Cattle/Horses
June 1st, 2016, 04:42 PM
You still do a great job Jonas by slack ass standards. I haven't noticed anybody step up and offer to do the admin work for you.

jonastio
June 1st, 2016, 04:54 PM
Oh, I'm not taking any of it seriously. I know how it rolls here.

e.money83
June 1st, 2016, 08:15 PM
All bullshit aside, I think today was the only time I ever had a major problem with the site, and that seemed to remedy itself pretty quick. I was unable to get the sight to load for about twenty minutes today. Acted like it didn't exist. Then it was back, like magic.

jonastio
June 1st, 2016, 09:37 PM
Yeah, they decided to move the virtual server to a new node in a new rack without notifying folks of the outage. Real professional.

0utlaw
June 1st, 2016, 09:42 PM
I hate it when they do that.................

e.money83
June 1st, 2016, 09:44 PM
...they 0110100 the 110101101 01 01?

Tack Driver
June 1st, 2016, 09:47 PM
While I would secretly agree that Jonas does a good job, I will publicly say y'all need to quit telling him so. Contributors should not be scared of their admins. Admins should be scared of their contributors.

Sent from Crawdaddy's momma's house via Tapatwat

Cattle/Horses
June 1st, 2016, 09:57 PM
^^^^ like you've never told someone what they want to hear just to get what you want!


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FLT
June 1st, 2016, 10:01 PM
Tack?never !

Dale Gribble
June 2nd, 2016, 07:34 AM
Yeah, they decided to move the virtual server to a new node in a new rack without notifying folks of the outage. Real professional.

Sounds like City of Tally IT.

jonastio
June 2nd, 2016, 11:25 AM
I'll be working on moving the site to the Atlanta, GA datacenter here over the next 2-3 days.

0utlaw
June 2nd, 2016, 11:53 AM
I'm going to ATL tomorrow if you need some help moving

jonastio
June 2nd, 2016, 12:19 PM
Since you were looking to be IT management, that would mean you don't either.

e.money83
June 2nd, 2016, 12:59 PM
That might be his point...

e.money83
June 2nd, 2016, 01:15 PM
http://i.imgur.com/iWKad22.jpg

0utlaw
June 2nd, 2016, 01:21 PM
So do I or don't I need to haul a load of gigabytes up there with me?

Greg Kulbick
June 2nd, 2016, 01:36 PM
To lunch?

0utlaw
June 2nd, 2016, 02:08 PM
http://www.tenforums.com/attachments/drivers-hardware/21104d1433806576t-what-ssd-you-guys-using-how-many-seconds-load-your-destop-capture1.jpg

jonastio
June 2nd, 2016, 08:56 PM
Testing system post change.

jonastio
June 2nd, 2016, 08:57 PM
Cool. At this point, it should be trivial to move the rest of the site in a couple of hours.

jonastio
June 2nd, 2016, 09:39 PM
Okidoki. Things have been passed off to the new server. Yay.

0utlaw
June 2nd, 2016, 09:46 PM
You're gonna ruin your slack ass reputation if you keep this shit up

jonastio
June 2nd, 2016, 09:59 PM
That's okay. I'm making enough mistakes trying to enable ipv6 that the rep will continue.

jonastio
June 2nd, 2016, 10:22 PM
Yay. I got ipv6 running!

12bhunting
June 3rd, 2016, 06:47 AM
Yay. I got ipv6 running!

Not sure what your talking about, but if it acts up I have a hammer..

jonastio
June 3rd, 2016, 09:36 AM
So, some of y'all are probably saying "Oh, I can finally get to the forum now. What happened?"

Well, I configured the new site the way the documentation said to. Didn't work. Got creative and looks like it's fixed now.

Sorry, Not Sorry. :|

e.money83
June 3rd, 2016, 11:31 AM
Apathetic?

WinterSoldier
June 3rd, 2016, 12:45 PM
FYI if you weren't involved... Both CCGF & TGF were down around 4-5 a.m., this morning.

jonastio
June 3rd, 2016, 01:16 PM
Way to read.

Cattle/Horses
June 3rd, 2016, 01:48 PM
Way to read #5.

FTFY

WinterSoldier
June 3rd, 2016, 04:44 PM
Way to read.

Well... (1) if you are talking to me (which I cannot tell) and if you think you wrote something previously that explained that... I don't think so. But by all means feel free to believe that you did... whatever.:banana:

Tack Driver
June 3rd, 2016, 05:18 PM
I still can't upload pictures from my computer. I can post web images and I can host them somewhere, but that seems stupid.

Cattle/Horses
June 3rd, 2016, 06:34 PM
Works for me tack.

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jonastio
June 17th, 2016, 04:37 PM
Okay, I'm happy with the new host. We've got 3 times as much horsepower as before for $18 a quarter. Being in Atlanta makes the forum a bit peppier than the Canadian one for sure. IPV6 is back up and running. I fixed the chat issue last night (You're welcome, Tack).

I increased the upload limit so you should be able to upload larger pictures now.

Jafar
June 17th, 2016, 04:50 PM
I increased the upload limit so you should be able to upload larger pictures now.

Loading perfect, time sensitive gifs is really the only leverage for some of us to stay. During the Canadian era, I about bitch quit with the rest of them.

Tack Driver
June 17th, 2016, 04:50 PM
We're Southern again?!

http://imagesmtv-a.akamaihd.net/uri/mgid:file:http:shared:mtv.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/django-1447189909.gif

Jafar
June 17th, 2016, 04:52 PM
Fried chicken emojis, and shit.

WinterSoldier
June 17th, 2016, 06:59 PM
Okay, I'm happy with the new host. We've got 3 times as much horsepower as before for $18 a quarter. Being in Atlanta makes the forum a bit peppier than the Canadian one for sure. IPV6 is back up and running. I fixed the chat issue last night (You're welcome, Tack).

I increased the upload limit so you should be able to upload larger pictures now.
Jonas... Could you please the "horsepower" just a little bit more, so we can store ammo up there...

Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk

Cattle/Horses
June 17th, 2016, 08:53 PM
Cover the balls with your finger and he runs faster!

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jonastio
June 17th, 2016, 08:59 PM
Jonas... Could you please the "horsepower" just a little bit more, so we can store ammo up there...

Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk

http://i.imgur.com/tYIJPLZ.gif

WinterSoldier
June 17th, 2016, 09:09 PM
Well, Jonas, if you can't read over left-out words and still get the gist... sigh... I just don't know.

Bless your little heart.

Besides, I thought it... and if I thought it, that's just as good as being there.

Also sprach Zarathustra.

QUOTE=jonastio;222462]http://i.imgur.com/tYIJPLZ.gif[/QUOTE]

12bhunting
June 17th, 2016, 09:30 PM
Cover the balls with your finger and he runs faster!

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I just ain't gonna do it....

Cattle/Horses
June 17th, 2016, 09:31 PM
Liar, you've done did it.

0utlaw
June 22nd, 2016, 11:48 AM
Did we get some banner/popup ads along the bottom of some of the pages or is it some shit that has flicked my computer?

Cattle/Horses
June 22nd, 2016, 12:33 PM
Did we get some banner/popup ads along the bottom of some of the pages or is it some shit that has flicked my computer?

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jonastio
June 22nd, 2016, 08:03 PM
I put up some google ads at the bottom of the page. I'm testing some stuff.

It's actually doubling/tripling my daily revenue. To the point where using it as a way to fund a yearly party is fairly well conceivable.

Mikec2003
June 22nd, 2016, 08:43 PM
I put up some google ads at the bottom of the page. I'm testing some stuff.

It's actually doubling/tripling my daily revenue. To the point where using it as a way to fund a yearly party is fairly well conceivable.

I was wondering if I got some malware or something, glad it's by design. and I for one don't care if it's there, it's at the bottom, out of sight out of mind.

jonastio
June 22nd, 2016, 09:07 PM
I was wondering if I got some malware or something, glad it's by design. and I for one don't care if it's there, it's at the bottom, out of sight out of mind.

That's why I put it at the bottom. Most folks wouldn't even notice it was there.

making between $1-$2 a day in advertising doesn't seem like much, but in 6 months it could be enough to pay for a booze and beef party.

WinterSoldier
June 22nd, 2016, 10:37 PM
That's why I put it at the bottom. Most folks wouldn't even notice it was there.

making between $1-$2 a day in advertising doesn't seem like much, but in 6 months it could be enough to pay for a booze and beef party.

Not that anyone cares, but, (1) I don't drink booze, (2) I don't eat meat... and (3) I find ads annoying.

If funding supports the operation, fine by me. If it supports drinking booze and eating beef... I could do without the aggravating advertising crapola. I admit that I see the same damn ads elsewhere but they are based on Google being nosey about products I research or buy online... and I don't really care for the idea that I'm facilitating Google's nosiness any more than is absolutely necessary.

Of course I realize it is unlikely that anyone will agree with me, but I'm a democratic kind of guy who votes on stuff whether it's up for a vote or not, and regardless of the expected outcome... and... let the chips fall where they may...

mattb
June 22nd, 2016, 11:14 PM
No booze or beef? I'd jump off a fucking bridge ... and cut my own throat on the way down.

e.money83
June 22nd, 2016, 11:29 PM
Someone get W/S adblock+, fuck, it's free....

12bhunting
June 23rd, 2016, 07:03 AM
Not that anyone cares, but, (1) I don't drink booze, (2) I don't eat meat... and (3) I find ads annoying.

If funding supports the operation, fine by me. If it supports drinking booze and eating beef... I could do without the aggravating advertising crapola. I admit that I see the same damn ads elsewhere but they are based on Google being nosey about products I research or buy online... and I don't really care for the idea that I'm facilitating Google's nosiness any more than is absolutely necessary.

Of course I realize it is unlikely that anyone will agree with me, but I'm a democratic kind of guy who votes on stuff whether it's up for a vote or not, and regardless of the expected outcome... and... let the chips fall where they may...

Your right. No fucks givin.

Tack Driver
June 23rd, 2016, 08:56 AM
Your right. No fucks givin.
*You're
*Given

Sent from Crawdaddy's momma's house via Tapatwat

12bhunting
June 23rd, 2016, 09:18 AM
*you
*can
*go
*suck
*a
*cock

holtdoublej
July 12th, 2016, 09:44 PM
Has anyone else gotten an email concerning a data breach from VerticalScope? Says they were hacked and may have lost usernames and passwords. I googled them and it says they are based out of Ontario Canada and host a lot of forums.

jonastio
July 12th, 2016, 10:21 PM
This site hasn't been hacked.

holtdoublej
July 12th, 2016, 10:38 PM
I was just curious to see if anyone else had received a similar email or if it may have been concerning LinkedIn or another website.

Jafar
July 13th, 2016, 08:35 AM
It wasn't hacked, Jonas gave all your information to the Canadians voluntarily.




*snicker*

jonastio
July 13th, 2016, 10:09 AM
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