Site migrated

[Susan Bradley]

At least where I’m at I’m on the new IP.  We’re now moved over to the new IP address.  Kick the tires, let me know if everything appears to be working
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Susan Bradley Patch Lady

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plodr, Cameochi, Pepsiboy, satrow, abbodi86, SueW, geekdom

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[b]

Seems much faster to me

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rc primak

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[WYT]

Worked fine for me.

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rc primak

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[CADesertRat]

Seems to be working ok for me 🙂

Don't take yourself so seriously, no one else does 🙂
4 Win 10 Pro at 1909 (3 Desktops, 1 Laptop).

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[anonymous]

Accessed OK, as of Dec 22.

 

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[LHiggins]

Thanks! Can’t say it seems any faster to me, but everything is working fine! And it seemed pretty painless – hope it was as smooth behind the scenes as it appeared to be here on the front side. I hardly noticed that it happened! 🙂

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[geekdom]

Seamless!

Beta Work {Got backup and coffee}
offline▸ Win10Pro 2004.19041.572 x64 i3-3220 RAM8GB HDD Firefox83.0b3 WindowsDefender TRV=1909 WuMgr
offline▸ Win10Pro 20H2.19042.685 x86 Atom N270 RAM2GB HDD WindowsDefender WuMgr GuineaPigVariant
online▸ Win10Pro 2004.19041.746 x64 i5-9400 RAM16GB HDD Firefox86.0b2 WindowsDefender TRV=2004 WuMgr

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[howardagoldberg]

Working fine in Albany, NY on Charter/Spectrum using Google DNS at the router level.

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[Douglas]

Everything seems just fine to me. Thanks.

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[Alex5723]

Working fine from 5700 miles away.

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[anonymous]

? says:

does this look like you want?

IP address: 104.131.162.132
hostname: askwoody.com
Internet Service Privider: DIGITALOCEAN
Autonomous System Number:AS14061
City: Clifton
Region:New Jersey
Country:United States

connects and runs…

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[PKCano]

Looks like you nailed us!

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[rc primak]

Maybe say “nailed it”? Sounds like “nailed us” would be a bad thing if it were to occur? (As in “That Windows Update sure nailed us!”) (Just being picky, I know!)

Posting not any speedier, but page loading and transitions are faster. So b is partly right, in my opinion.

-- rc primak

• This reply was modified 1 month ago by rc primak.

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[WildBill]

Working fine in San Antonio, TX. Links in Newsletter responded fine & link to this post worked. Can’t tell a noticeable difference in speed, but no mess-ups so far…

2 Machines for Now!
#1: Windows 8.1, 64-bit, back in Group A.
#2: Getting close to buying a refurbished Windows 10 64-bit, recently updated to v1909. Have broke the AC adapter cord going to the 8.1 machine, but before that, coaxed it into charging. Need to buy new adapter if wish to continue using it.
Wild Bill Rides Again...

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[HiFlyer]

Alles Klar hier in Deutschland.  AOK.

 

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[anonymous]

? says:

hello in there!

i have developed some interesting habits since joining the internet. glad the transition went according to plan…

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[anonymous]

Note: ‘Recent replies’ panel (homepage) as anon:
The sync is delayed quite a bit, hovering over a recent reply link shows partial text of post, then when clicking newer replies, there is no post or text in the thread.
Probably look ok to signed in members. (caching?)
-microfix

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rc primak, geekdom

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[Microfix]

yup it looks ok to signed in members

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created IT- AE

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rc primak, geekdom

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[Kirsty]

When not logged in there is a problem with the caching of the Recent Replies widget, as indicated above.

But what’s more unusual than past issues with that widget is that it is not consistent on different pages within AskWoody. And the difference is about 45 minutes’ worth (identified between page 1 and page 2

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rc primak, geekdom

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[Susan Bradley]

Let’s see if it settles down as dns propagates and all that.

Susan Bradley Patch Lady

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rc primak, geekdom, Microfix

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[geekdom]

Replies and visibility seem to match now.

Beta Work {Got backup and coffee}
offline▸ Win10Pro 2004.19041.572 x64 i3-3220 RAM8GB HDD Firefox83.0b3 WindowsDefender TRV=1909 WuMgr
offline▸ Win10Pro 20H2.19042.685 x86 Atom N270 RAM2GB HDD WindowsDefender WuMgr GuineaPigVariant
online▸ Win10Pro 2004.19041.746 x64 i5-9400 RAM16GB HDD Firefox86.0b2 WindowsDefender TRV=2004 WuMgr

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rc primak

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[rebop2020]

I got an email notification of a new post to one of my topics, but when I clicked the link in email, no post to be found. Nor is that reply on that thread. Site was back up when all this happened. Email arrived 11:05 PST.

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[Microfix]

were you signed in when you clicked the link in the email?

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created IT- AE

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[rebop2020]

I did not specifically check, but I am signed in automatically every time I open Ask Woody in my browser. SO I will assume, yes.

Post is still not there. Want a link from the email? Could be the only one lost, or maybe not.

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[Microfix]

perhaps try again in a few hours, then let us know of the link should it still not work. Clearing the browser cache may help but as a last resort.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created IT- AE

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[rebop2020]

Should not be my browser cache.

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[rebop2020]

Still not there. No worries, but you should know.

Also, new browser (not my standard using now) that will not let me login to Ask Woody. No idea why not yet

Moderator Edit: deleted off topic content

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[rebop2020]

Fixed the login issue on the new browser. Needed to whitelist the cookie.

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rc primak

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[rebop2020]

Well, the deleted info was the link to the missing  message. Oh well. Point was this likely got lost in the cutover and likely I was not the only one. But…. All else seems working.

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[Paul T]

rebop2020 wrote:

when I clicked the link in email, no post to be found

This may happen if a reply is trashed before you check.
See Da Rules.

cheers, Paul

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rc primak

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[Kirsty]

… and could also be related to the caching issue, which @geekdom reports is now performing better.

Even seeing things in the Recent Replies widget resulted in no apparent post for something that had been posted 45 minutes ago, when not logged in. A similar situation would happen in clicking on an email notification link while not logged in, as if no post had been made. The post in question may now be visible, or would be visible if logged in?

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rc primak

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[Seff]

UK calling. I was on this afternoon, and this evening it’s seemingly been done and is back up again. All very smooth here, probably faster. Brilliant, well done!

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[woody]

Excellent from my wet perch in Thailand!

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rexr, Will Fastie

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[SkipH]

So far the new hosting service seems to deliver much faster URL links in the lower area of the main browsing window (using Chrome) when hovering over a link to a most current reply on the “Recently active topics” page.

That function was always sort of in slow motion to fill in the full URL to a post # on the old hosting service. That was very aggravating before, as it seemed if the link was clicked on too soon, it would fail to find the correct posting.

I get to those links (from that brown right-pointing arrow) by shift-left clicking on it so the link opens in a new Chrome window to save time when going back to Recent Topics page when I’m done reading the new posts. Just close that newly open Chrome window and the Recently active topics page is instantly there.

Those topic pages also seem to come up noticeably faster on the new server. And even really long topic pages (like over 300+ posts) seem to get to the “most recent” postings noticeably faster.

Page delivery also seems a bit faster even on my now 2+ year old Samsung Chromebook, a system with a Celeron N3050 CPU and 4GB of RAM.

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[Cee Arr]

woody wrote:

Excellent from my wet perch in Thailand!

Ditto from my perch in cool (weather) Bangkok.

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[OscarCP]

I just tested the new setup by posting two comments, besides this one, and then editing them several times. These comments include one with a URL link. Also I have read several posted by others here and there, and all these things look good, so far.

Windows 7 Professional, SP1, x64 Group W (ex B) & macOS Mojave + Linux (Mint)

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[Will Fastie]

woody wrote:

Excellent from my wet perch in Thailand!

That’s the definitive, authoritative test!

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[Will Fastie]

Seff wrote:

All very smooth here, probably faster.

Yes, it is faster. Noticed it right off.

Seff wrote:

Brilliant, well done!

All Kudos to Susan, the Patch Lady!

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rexr, rc primak

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[Nathan Parker]

So far works for me!

Nathan Parker

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rc primak

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[rc primak]

Is this on Apple hardware? That would be a useful data point.

-- rc primak

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[EspressoWillie]

Buuuut it’s still WordPress… 🙂

 

Cheers!!
Willie McClure
www.datarim.com
Talk's cheap, takes money to buy whiskey.

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[OscarCP]

It used to be OK until the Whale got swallowed, which might or might not have been related to any of this. But at around that time, or not long afterwards, strange things like the “twitchy finger spam filter” that would kidnap one’s comment as soon as posted, started to happen. My hypothesis, offered here for what is worth, is that such weird things might have had more to do with limitations in the servers previously hosting AskWoody than with WordPress.

Just saying.

Windows 7 Professional, SP1, x64 Group W (ex B) & macOS Mojave + Linux (Mint)

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[Kirsty]

Those things seemed more related to the Lounge, rather than the whale swallowing… the filters go through stages, sometimes less friendly than at other times. Hopefully the spam filter will behave nicely going forward.

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rc primak

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[WSGeo.]

All pages and links work fine here in WA (that’s the other WA, the one in Australia)

Geo.

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[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

Susan Bradley wrote:

Kick the tires, let me know if everything appears to be working

Everything works fine, except that my bearnaise sauce curdled. 

Oh well, I made do with Ketchup.

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[TechTango]

MUCH faster here.  Home run.  Thanks!

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[anonymous]

It works, and response time is faster it seems than ever! On little thing though is the visual toolbar does not appear until I toggle the Visual and Text tab.

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[NaNoNyMouse]

Eveything looking good here. I’m not seeing any speed increases, but then the site never seemed to run particularly slowly (for me anyway) in the past either

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[rc primak]

Posting and editing Replies have always been slow for many of us.

-- rc primak

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[anonymous]

Huh. Works fine already. I’m used to it taking much longer for my DNS servers to get the new IP address. Every time other sites I’ve used have done this, it’s taken at least 24 hours. I was only able to ever speed it up by using Google’s 8.8.8.8 as my nameserver, which I’ve not done on this computer. (I like to do it at my router instead, but it seems to forget DNS settings any time I have to restart it.)

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[rc primak]

My DNS is Cloudfare. Seems to work faster than my default Comcast DNS on most web sites, including here.

-- rc primak

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[MikeyD215]

Everything seems to be working properly. Clicked on links in several email follow-up notifications concerning different lounge posts and they all popped up correctly rather quickly. Next on your list Susan should be an idea I proposed to Woody a while back that he said was worthwhile. Here it is again.

I always read new posts on the web site from oldest to newest, so to switch pages I must always slide back down to the bottom of a page to get to the newest page. It would really be a time saver if the links to older/newer pages were at both the top and bottom of each page.

EDIT: Wow, this got posted lickety-split!

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[Paul T]

They are depending on which page you are looking at.
Post a screenshot of the page you use so we can advise.

cheers, Paul

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[steeviebops]

Getting you loud and clear in Dublin, Ireland. Seems to be much faster too.

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[Scotus]

OK in Scotland.

Keep up the good work!

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[Canadian Tech]

Quite dramatically faster load time

CT

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[jomargon]

Everything OK from Spain
Saludos🤗

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[wavy]

Error establishing a database connection

for https://www.askwoody.com/2020/site-migrated/
in PM and old edge

🍻

Just because you don't know where you are going doesn't mean any road will get you there.

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