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Fighter posted this 13 August 2022

Hello everyone,

This weekend the server will be shutdown for an estimated 2-3 hours interval for some scheduled maintenance. So if you see the site is offline do not think there is something bad or we're under attack or things like that.

I just need this time to make some security upgrades of the Windows Server operating system and also to set the server to take care if itself in some situations because I will leave Bucharest for about 3 weeks and I will not have physical access to it.

For example if here will be some power blackout the server must be able to power itself on and come back online when the power is restored. This is just one of the things which needs to be set as after a power failure I will not be able to power it on remotely by sending a Wake-On-LAN signal (as it's usually done). WOL doesn't work after a power failure.

I apologize for any incovenience.

If during these 3 weeks there will be any unexpected issue don't forget we have our secondary forum for emergency communications and updates:

https://free-energy.proboards.com/

And also be sure the content of the site is safe, we have automated backups running daily to an external secure encrypted location, the data will not be lost even if there is a physical damage of the server.

Regards,

Fighter

"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration."
Nikola Tesla
Fighter posted this 23 February 2025

We're back online.

The maintenance and especially the RAM upgrade went well, without incidents like it happened the previous time.

This time I was prepared to address that kind of problems (bootable USBs, clones for the bootable partition and MBR, etc.).

I ran compatibility and stress tests for the new RAM modules and they performed as expected so we're good to go. ☺️

The doubled RAM capacity will ensure the smooth running of our site in the future as the content of our site (images, documents and videos) keeps increasing.

Sorry for the downtime but it was necessary, I managed to reduce it to less than one hour.

Regards,

Fighter

"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration."
Nikola Tesla
Fighter posted this 1 weeks ago

Hi guys,

I just finished upgrading our site to .NET Framework version 4.8 from version 4.5.

This will ensure our site is taking advantage of the latest security and performance offered by Microsoft's technologies.

It was a lot of work to do because in this process I needed to also upgrade tens of NuGet packages which are integrated in our highly customized MVC Forum platform (each package having its own specific version) and "convince" them to "talk" to each other and with the new .NET version.

Usually this kind of upgrade can result in breaking functionality/features and also there is the risk of bugs appearing.

I did some basic testing after the upgrade and I'm gonna watch the logs for potential errors but just in case I miss anything let me know through a personal message if you encounter any error or if you see any issues in the functionality of our site.

Regards,

Fighter

"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration."
Nikola Tesla

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