Forum Hosting Plans - Update

[1986F150Six]

Thanks from all of us to you, Gary, for all the time, energy and resources you, personally, invest for our benefit!

[Gary Lewis]

Welcome, David.  It does take some time, but it isn't too much.  And I'm learning as I go, so it is an experience.  Mostly good, but sometimes stressful as new problems arise and I don't immediately have a good solution.

But we are going to get "there".  I have faith.  And "there" is a forum with software that is running on servers for which we've contracted.  In other words, captains of our own destiny!

[grumpin]

1986F150Six wrote

Thanks from all of us to you, Gary, for all the time, energy and resources you, personally, invest for our benefit!

Indeed! Thank you!

The Doo Dah man!

[Gary Lewis]

grumpin wrote

The Doo Dah man!

A young man escaping a troubled home life and a con man escaping the law meet on an open road in the middle of nowhere. As their friendship develops, they learn from each other.  

[grumpin]

Ha! I always hear the Grateful Dead!

[ArdWrknTrk]

I thought it was just me.

Keep on truckin' !  

(It's a lyric from the song, Gary)

[ctubutis]

This is a big deal to do, Gary, I'm glad you're making progress? Heh...

[Gary Lewis]

Yes, we are making progress.  The forum is running on AWS servers, and a lot better I might add.  But the email notifications aren't all working - yet.  The sys admin, Pedro, that is working on it says he thinks he'll have those issues fixed by the end of the month.

Then we need to sort out why we can't log onto the embedded version but can by going directly to it.  Probably some setting I've not got right.

And after that we can move.

[spike_time]

If you are still having issues, let me know. I can help (as this type of things is my day job).

[Gary Lewis]

Do you know about Nabble?  That's the code we are running.

[spike_time]

I can't say I know Nabble specifically, but what I do know is Linux, PostgreSQL, Java, Python and the like, the basic underpinnings of what run it.

I know AWS extremely well. What I can say, is LightSail is more expensive than using more native solutions, like running direct EC2 instances, even with the DB running on them.  Having said that, LightSail is easier to manage, as it is a prepackaged setup.

[Gary Lewis]

I know very little about all this.  But Nabble is a language, as explained briefly here.  I've contracted with a gentleman that used to work for the outfit called Nabble, and he has gotten the open-source version of Nabble running on AWS servers for us.  The thing keeping us from going live is that email notifications aren't working,

We initially started on AWS EC2 servers and that was running into ~$90/month.  So we moved to Lightsail and have the cost down to ~$30/mo.

Our response time on the Nabble servers is getting worse steadily, so we need to move ASAP.  Hopefully the email issue will be sorted soon.

[spike_time]

I'm happy to jump in and help meaning "hands on keyboard" to see what I can do. Let me know, we can setup a call if needed.

[Gary Lewis]

Thanks, but I just got a note from the guy saying he thinks he can get it done in the next couple of days, and since I contracted with him for the job I need to see it through.

Maybe as we go forward?

[vjsimone]

following

[Gary Lewis]

My cousin Vinny!  Where you been?  

Anyway, probably time for an update for y'all.  Pedro, the admin that's been working to get the Nabble software running on our AWS servers has been hung up doing other things and still hasn't gotten the email notifications working yet.  But he knows he won't get paid until he does, so it'll happen.  

And that is about all that is keeping us from going live on the new servers.  Hopefully soon!

[grumpin]

Maybe your cousin Vinny needs to make some cement shoes!

[Gary Lewis]

[ArdWrknTrk]

I took note of your test user on Gabble.
Is there any progress or update?

[Gary Lewis]

Glad you got that email, Jim.  And thanks for mentioning it as I should have warned y'all.

Yes, there is progress.  Pedro uploaded a recent backup of this forum onto our AWS servers and modified the email system, and we are banging on it to test it.  At this point it is working better than last time in that we are getting email notification of people registering.  However, when I registered this morning with that test user and clicked the "confirm" link I was sent I got an error message.  But, the registration worked and we, the admins, got an email to that effect.

So apparently the email system on the forum is working better this round.  And if all checks out we may move around August 1st.