Server upgrade

[Sir Ulrich]

This keeps popping up and it's quite annoying.

[Sir Wolf]

i got a

This Connection is Untrusted





You have asked Firefox to connect
securely to modernchivalry.org, but we can't confirm that your connection is secure.
Normally, when you try to connect securely,
sites will present trusted identification to prove that you are
going to the right place. However, this site's identity can't be verified.



What Should I Do?

If you usually connect to
this site without problems, this error could mean that someone is
trying to impersonate the site, and you shouldn't continue.






Technical Details




I Understand the Risks


dunno why it just randomly came up today

[Sir Edward]

Nothing has changed. You should be able to log in with both standard http and https. Is it redirecting you or something?

[Sir Edward]

OK, I do see it redirecting to https. It shouldn't be doing that. I'll have to look into it later. For now, ignore.

[Sir Edward]

Arg... so a setting did get changed, and I'm not sure how. Anyway, just change the URL to http, and not https, and you won't see those warnings anymore.

EDIT: I see how it happened. I was changing an unrelated setting, and it automatically set the whole server over to https just because I was logged in that way at the time. Grrr.

[Sir Gerard de Rodes]

Well done and thanks for all your hard work with the forum and site Sir Ed.
G.

[Joshua Santana]

Well done and thanks for all your hard work with the forum and site Sir Ed.

Thank you Sir Edward for everything and your hard work.

[Sir Justin]

OK, my preliminary reboot is done. So much for my 916 days of uptime (2.5 years). lol.

Like I said, I don't know when I'll do the main upgrade, it depends on when I have a few contiguous hours to work on it.

Umm 916 days of continuous uptime, wow nice job! But realize this... one does not simply steal God's computer....

[Joshua Santana]

mm 916 days of continuous uptime, wow nice job! But realize this... one does not simply steal God's computer....

Indeed.   

[Sir Edward]

lol...

What's amusing about that is that linux geeks often put a lot of pride into their uptimes, since a lot of the system management and upgrades can be done without reboots. A reboot is necessary for kernel updates, or of course changing the hardware, but that's about it.

But smarter linux geeks know that the uptimes mean nothing, and going years without a reboot means you haven't tested the startup sequence with whatever updates you've made. And hard drives are mostly likely to fail when powering down and back up. The disk might be going bad and you won't know it until you reboot.

But as it turns out, I only got about 16 days of uptime after my upgrades before my hosting service forced a reboot to migrate me to a different physical server, so I'd have rebooted anyway before long.

[Bernarr]

Man.. I wish the people I had to deal with realized that simple fact. Whenever we have to reboot a host we get replies to the tickets like "YOU RUINED MY 650 DAY UPTIME!!!!!!"

Yea.. here's the REALLY funny part: I work for your host.

[Sir Edward]

Yea.. here's the REALLY funny part: I work for your host.

You do? Small world.

[Bernarr]

Yea, I started here in February of 2011. Never heard of them before a friend told me to apply.

[Sir Edward]

That's cool. I've been a customer for quite a few years, back when the bottom tier plans only had 64 mb of memory. I've always been happy with the service.

[Sir Edward]

Yea, I started here in February of 2011. Never heard of them before a friend told me to apply.

BTW, if you don't mind me asking, how large of an operation is it now? When I started as a customer, I think Mr. Aker was a one-man show, and I got the impression there were only a couple dozen host machines at most. I imagine you guys have a robust staff and thousands of hosts now.