Server Move Issues, Bugs or Concerns

[BAJ475]

Very slow. Something is wrong.

[bluenoise]

It's been very slow for me, too.

[WithinReason]

Very intermittent issues for me. Login seems ok albeit slow but posting edits and posting new threads result in this at the first attempt but often go through on second try. Something is definitely wrong:

Me, too...

[Drivedabizness]

Couldn't login (again) and the site is glacially slow today.

[Scota4570]

Yes, painfully slow and glitchy. The forum is broken. It has been months.

Perhaps a new I.T. service person is needed. IT has been about five months since it worked right. They clearly do not know how to fix it, or do not care. The members must be leaving? It is not worth the time to fight the problems here.

It is such a pain to post anything that I am giving up. I'll check in from time to time.

[HYPURR]

No Bueno

The only thing about CA Guns is this forum. Now and lately not so much. Just don't understand the IT Drama in our world today.

Idela I'm Gone...(Morgan Freeman Driving Miss Daisy)

[mossy]

1990's called, they want their dial-up speed back

[ColdDeadHands1]

It's soooo slooowwwww. For about a week now. What gives?

[OaklandGunner]

Not to pile on but for the sake of reporting data, pages often take minutes to load

[AO3]

Im also experiencing painfully slow loading of pages.

[Chedderboy]

Server very sluggish past few days.

[L-2]

0530 hours, today 9/13/23.
Calguns is quick and crisp at this very moment.
Whatever it was might be fixed; maybe even better than before the "slowness".

[Librarian]

0530 hours, today 9/13/23.
Calguns is quick and crisp at this very moment.
Whatever it was might be fixed; maybe even better than before the "slowness".

Still rather sprightly at 1115; I like it!

[mrdd]

Another problem is that the forum software needs to be updated. We're running vBulletin 3.8.11, and they are now selling version 6. Version 3.x.y is EOL at this point (end-of-life).

The EOL status for version 3 was declared in December 2017.

[TrappedinCalifornia]

Another problem is that the forum software needs to be updated. We're running vBulletin 3.8.11, and they are now selling version 6. Version 3.x.y is EOL at this point (end-of-life).

The EOL status for version 3 was declared in December 2017.

I don't know if this is the latest and greatest, but Kestryll posted on this back in May... SERVER ISSUES UPDATE...

I've been chasing these oddities we've been having ever since the server move and frankly I ran out of things to try.

I reached out to vBulletin staff and I think we have the answer.

Most if not all of the issues are related to the database and that seems to be where the problem is. Our old server ran an older version of MySQL which worked with vB 3.8.11. When we moved I knew the later versions of PHP were going to be a problem so I paid to have our server temporarily set up with a legacy version of PHP. I hadn't realized nor considered that the later version of MySQL would have it's own problems. Every reported bug I'd seen had been related to PHP versions.

Apparently in MySQL 8.0.x certain words were reclassified as 'reserved'. Since they were not classed as such in the earlier version this is causing problems on the forum since the new server is running 8.0.32.

So, there are two options to address this, one really because the other is incredibly impractical.
The first would be to go through the database finding each and every usage of these words and encase them in backticks, this is the insanely impractical option.
The second is to update the forum to vB 5.7.4. The 5.7.x series of softwares has coding in it to account for these reserved words.

In the very near future I will be contracting with vBulletin to have them handle the update from 3.8.11 to 5.7.4 since it's such a significant leap in versions. If something goes wrong they can figure it out since it's their coding.

Unfortunately this means there will be some 'losses'. The Blog hasn't been supported as an add on in years so we will likely lose whatever blog posts have been made.
iTrader is old enough to buy alcohol and has been unsupported long enough to vote. I doubt it will work but I'll try to reinstall it after the update.
I suspect there will be a few other things that will have to be looked at for compatibility as well. We'll find out after the vB engineers look at the install.

We'll probably be down for a couple of days from what I've read, hopefully less but it all depends on how we arrange the chicken bones and feathers and how good vB's voodoo is.

Once I have an idea on the dates I'll post them up.