I've noticed recently that the IFAS website is extremely unstable, a lot of the time I get "Bad Gateway" messages, then a few minutes later the site works again, I get this in work (through US proxy and not through US Proxy), at home and on my mobile so it's not provider specific.
I have moved the site to a new setup this morning to bring more stability.
If you are still seeing issues, please tell me but I think the instability issues should be gone
Thanks
Darragh
Load averages used to be 26-30 using Apache
now around 0.5 - 0.8 using Nginx and php-fpm
I used to have nginx reverse proxying to a backend apache instance.
Now the frontend nginx handles all the requests and uses php-fpm for all the php stuff
Regards
Darragh
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I saw the Bad Gateway message a couple of times over Xmas but it all came back soon enough.
With the changes you made Darragh, seems that email notification in now turned back on again which is brilliant for me. I rarely load up the website - I just check my email for new topic notifications. Can we please please please keep this going?
Love the new look too by the way. Your (unpaid) work is very much appreciated
Bad gateway happened a few times today, a page refresh sometimes brings it back no problem, but others it takes a few minutes before the site displays properly
Sorry, was missing around with some configuration, have reset it back to the original, so it should be ok now
Darragh
Since the start of the year I have been finding the forum especially awkward to use on my iPad. Is it possible reset the view of the forum as it was previously in 2013?
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Thanks for modifying the forum to make it adjust to the width of the screen. It is now much more user friendly, and the response times are great. Well done, much appreciated.
Thanks for modifying the forum to make it adjust to the width of the screen. It is now much more user friendly, and the response times are great. Well done, much appreciated.
Mike
Didn't think this was fixed yet, it's not for me, it's probably taking up 50% of my browser width
There seems to be an issue with IE and Chrome as it appears fine in Firefox and Safari, and it's also erratic on the machine displaying it too. I am only noticing the exceeded width in Chrome on the machine in studio tonight (first time in a week I could check it on such a wonky machine), while on my laptop and Mac it all appears fine.
Anyway, as I said earlier, the 'fix' is temporary, but please do report back with any layout bugs you spot. Once I think I have the CSS cleaned up and working, I'll post back here for you all to Refresh (hit the F5 key) your browser windows.
Seanie.
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Radio Presenter (Midlands 103), Space Enthusiast, Astronomy Outreach Co-ordinator.
Former IFAS Chairperson and Secretary.
Looks like Internet Explorer version 8 and below has an issue with the screen width. The page width extends past the right hand border by a fixed % irrespective of the screen resolution. If warranted you could look at loading a custom stylesheet for IE Versions 8 and below, using User agent detection or IE Conditional comments.
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