[Omniscient]

I hate having to type these up sometimes.

First off, I'm feeling under-the-weather. I'm a bit ill, headache, sore throat, and cough. I just don't feel very good at all.

This morning I got up around 9pm. For the second day in a row it appeared the server went offline for 30 minutes from midnight to 12:30am which is when there are some cron jobs which restarts the server and does some log rotating. I figured I would look into it and I took it as a good time to do some server updates.

After running a couple updates, one of which was Apache, the HTTPD process wouldn't start. It gave me an APR error.

/usr/sbin/httpd: Undefined symbol "apr_bucket_alloc_aligned_floor"

After some digging it appears to be related to the APR (Apache Portable Runtime) which is basically a set of tools for Apache. Seems we have some issue on the server with our library and having the apache build properly. Not a lot of help online related to the problem. I did a lot of updating of various server packages and tried different configurations to get it working but nothing.

And please note that I plan on moving us to a new server within the next week and so this failure on the old server was pushing me to just move on if I couldn't get it fixed right away. I told myself I'd give it 3-4 hours and I would just give-up and move us. A move at this time would mean 24-48 hours of downtime because I still have some configuring to do on the new server.

So on top of all this I'm sick and rather upset that I have to deal with this crap right now. If I was an employee instead of the boss I'd just call out sick and sit on the couch. I really don't want to make any mistakes in the move or setting up the new server. It requires 100% mental focus. Something I do not have right now.

Well, after 4 hours and just about to give-up I got it working. I basically removed ever single trace of the existing APR libs and on the next build of Apache it installed all the libs required without conflict. So bingo, down for 4 hours but at least I don't have to move us yet.

We will be moving soon and that will be a day of downtime.

Sorry about this today. Shit happens I suppose. Still not sure if that midnight server crash is fixed or not either but I suppose we'll just live with it until we move.

New server has more resources and will not be FreeBSD. I'm hoping it will be more stable and easier to configure and update.

Thank you.

[Consecvent]

Thanks for all the effort you are doing for Hackforums.
You are doing a great job Omni.

Hope you will feel better soon!

[Juice.]

I was wondering if it was a problem on my side or not! Glad it’s working now and I hope you start feeling better.

[Omniscient]

I was wondering if it was a problem on my side or not! Glad it’s working now and I hope you start feeling better.

Best option is to follow the official Twitter. I do update it for a lot of HF related news.

https://twitter.com/hackforumsnet

[Woes]

Wow, I really hope you feel better soon.

Thanks for the update Dad.

[Tesla]

Best option is to follow the official Twitter. I do update it for a lot of HF related news.

https://twitter.com/hackforumsnet

Hell ya! That's the first place I went 🤩

[Bluffer]

Been wondering why site crashes around the same time the last few days thanks for explaining that.

[Mr. Robot]

Yup recommend everyone to follow the twitter, it's great for updates and shit.

Go get yourself some sleep, 4 hours of fucking pain at the worst possible time - fuck that shit. Get some rest, recover and get better soon.

I'll be a mini mod in the lounge till you're better.

[Mr Kewl]

Best option is to follow the official Twitter. I do update it for a lot of HF related news.

https://twitter.com/hackforumsnet

I think you should make a blog kinda thing, with such important updates.
Or a side bar with announcements.

Will reach more people like that imho.

That's how all major brands give updates on big issues (if mobile app, they got push notifications) but a blog for updates could work as well.

[ᴇccy]

Hope you get better man :)

[Biggy]

Now that the site is up go and rest up, you deserve that for all the work recently. Take care of your health boss.

Thanks for the updates and getting the site back up and fast as you could.

[ZeroOne]

I'm glad you got us back online, thank you for the time you spent dealing with this. I hope you feel better soon and the move next week goes smoothly.

[Juice.]

Best option is to follow the official Twitter. I do update it for a lot of HF related news.

https://twitter.com/hackforumsnet

Oh sweet didn’t even know about that! That’s really helpful.

[Angel]

Get some sleep, better to work 100% focused.
Thanks for the update boss 🤝

[TB12]

Hope you feel better, thanks for your hard work