GreekChat will be temporarily offline for a few hours sometime... this week.

[John]

GC will be going offline tonight approx 1 hour or so after posting this message.

Should have the site back online later tonight or tomorrow if I run into any delays.

Follow https://x.com/greekchat for updates.

[Cheerio]

Thank you for your continued dedication to GreekChat, John.

[John]

Originally Posted by John

GC will be going offline tonight approx 1 hour or so after posting this message.

Should have the site back online later tonight or tomorrow if I run into any delays.

I underestimated... and ran into some snags.

I'm going to revise this again. Based on where I am right now in the process, I'm going to delay the downtime again until tomorrow.

Been bogged down with firewall settings and email server setup / configurations...

[aephi alum]

Thank you for all your hard work!

[John]

GC's new email sending server is up and running. I noticed that some emails are failing due to the IP address being new in relation to sending emails from GC. So that might cause some email delivery issues for a bit until that clears up. I'll be looking more into that later on. Some of it just takes time for email providers to trust the new IP address.

Wanted to mention this for anyone who uses GC email notifications to know when to check on various discussions here for updates. Email notifications might be a bit unreliable until these issues are sorted out, etc.

[John]

So close but yet so far. I kinda want to keep grinding away at it tonight, but it's late enough... I'll pick back up with it tomorrow.

LOL, I should have just put in the initial message "sometime this week" instead of a few days. I updated the thread title to reflect that.

And it probably will end up being tomorrow.

[AOIIalum]

FWIW, it was much faster this morning when logging in. Definitely noticed a difference!

[John]

So the past 2 weeks didn't turn out anything like what I expected. I thought I was in the home stretch with only a few hours left to go with all this. But turned out there was still lots for me to do, configure & generally figure out.

Then, when I finally was ready to reopen GC... that's when the bots showed up. Literally, within a minute of reopening there would be hundreds of connections & GC would slow to a crawl. I tested reopening GC a number of times over the past few days. Sometimes it would only be 15 to 20 seconds before the site became unusably slow. I had to keep GC offline just so it was fast enough to work on.

I've been working on this new server (+ software upgrades & other additional tech) project for GC since late March. Probably around 50% of my time. GC is now running on the new server which I have setup way differently than the old server. GC should be significantly improved with this new backend tech stack.

There's still more to come for GC. I have a to-do list a mile long.

GC has been back online for approx 45 minutes and things are looking great so far.

Lots of things on the backend have changed so please let me know if you run into any errors or other issues on the site.

Please also help test things out by clicking around and posting some messages & threads.

[carnation]

YAYYY! Thanks, John!

[Sciencewoman]

Thanks so much, John!

[Phrozen Sands]

What happened to the chit chat thread?

[Phrozen Sands]

The chit chatting thread isn’t working. My posts aren’t showing up and it’s not showing as one of the threads.

[AGDee]

Thanks John!

[Cookiez17]

We're back woo! Thank you John!

[aephi alum]

And we’re back. Thank you for all your hard work, John!