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I'm pretty happy with the filtration system I have. But I get city water that I'm happy to filter out whatever they put in it. I also have a Reverse Osmosis next to my kitchen tap for drinking. I miss having well water, but those are the breaks living in the suburbs instead of out in the country.

Hello Everyone! If you happened to be on just now... Well I guess you weren't on because I shut the server down to upgrade our file space. But we're back up now and you can go about business as usual! -Ibrahim

Well, if a bot it scraping the pages for AI or search engine indexing, it's fast. That's the issue compared to regular people. Even if we had twice as many humans online at once, we wouldn't be equaling how fast they will just spider through all the site. The server has to give the bots the...

I can talk to Muhammad about this. He's currently traveling, but I'll bring it up when I can.

I'm sure you noticed the downtime! I want to apologize and welcome you back! I'll endeavor NOT to do that again! So this morning while I was trying to fix a minor recurring issue with the forum I managed to throw a monkey wrench JUST right to hit everything on the way down. I then spent the...

This is an announcement. Threads can be posted again! Sorry about that, we had a problem with an addon and disabled it, but it left a remnant that we just fixed! I didn't check the thread posts. Apologies.

I made a change and you should be able to upload avatars now. At least, I was able to edit mine and reupload it.

The TBN homepage is set to redirect to the forum for a bit. The theme is broken and unfortunately I need a little more time. In the meantime, forum still works. :cool:

There is an error on the frontpage of TBN. We use Wordpress as the backend for that part of the site. It's not Malware, it's just an error screen. Working on it.

Great! Glad it fixed it and thanks for bringing it up!

I made a server change. It should be re-directing you to the https version of the site automatically now (this setting got missed when I changed it over) so if you had bookmarked the https version, came in through the homepage (which does redirect to https automatically) or just clicked from...

Here's also a site that outlines how to clear some stored SSL Certificates or "saved logins" and it might help: https://www.a2hosting.com/kb/getting-started-guide/internet-and-networking/clearing-a-web-browsers-ssl-state/ If it doesn't help, please post the certificate info as I mentioned in...

We changed our server IP address. Your office firewall may be storing the old IP address and providing that to your browser. Does it make a difference whether you type: "www.tractorbynet.com" or "tractorbynet.com" in the URL? When you are on any page that is unsecure, can you click to the left...

Oops. I raised the limit and it's now 10 megs. We might adjust it again later, but it should solve the immediate issue.

We just did an upgrade to Tapatalk on our end that might help with the errors. But please browse around and note specific thread names (if you can) and maybe there is a pattern that I'll be able to find. If you HAVE had issues and they have gone away, also let me know.

Any idea which threads work vs which don't work? Specifically ones I can check myself in the app? (Are they new threads, older threads? No pattern?)

Okay! Thanks for letting me know.

Okay. Thanks for letting me know!

Just to update: It seems like we've successfully moved over to the new server software. There may be a few hiccups but we're working on getting those fixed. If you notice anything out of the ordinary, reply here and let us know. Thanks!

That was an unexpected downtime to do a little server tweaking. I'm going to monitor the forum for the next few moments and see if we're in a good spot or if I'll do a quick revert. 🤞

Don't worry, I'm about to do it again for a little bit.

While I have been doing some maintenance at night, you would definitely see the forum locked and you shouldn't be receiving those sorts of errors when browsing day to day. We no longer go through Cloudflare, but I'm still looking for clues that might cause this. Is the error a pop-up? Text at...

I did some transfers but we're going to be doing another short downtime Sunday evening.

Hey Everyone, We're going to be locking the forum and maybe shutting off the site briefly on Saturday to move some files to a new server. This isn't a hardware upgrade but a backend server upgrade. None of the forum software is changing and nothing should appear different to any users. I...

Hmmm. So there was a file ownership difference that might have affected it. But I just matched it to the others (hoping to break it, which would mean I found the issue.) So it's not that. I'm going to try looking up some other stuff. I know I might sound like a broken record, but if you have...

I made a change that might have affected YOUR avatar. Does it still show up for you? (After this post) Or is it missing now? (It SHOULD be missing if my hunch is right, but if it's still there, I'll try other stuff.)

So the URL that you posted opens to an image with a mime joke on it. So when you try to open the URL to the image, what does the URI get truncated to? Or it pops up the "cannot read file" error you told me about earlier? Again, I'm not debating that you're having an issue, I'm trying to...

Nothing changed on our end before this error occurred for you. So I am going to run down all the leads I can find. We're going to test on a Mac later to see if we can duplicate the problem with our own browsers. Do ads display for you? The main TBN logo at the top loads? Is it ONLY Avatars and...

Are you using Safari as well? Are the images loading if you try Firefox/Chrome/another browser?

Come on guys. You must have diagnosed problems before that are tough to track down. Now imagine a problem that SOME people have but most others don't? Including me. Because it's working for most people, the first thing we need to do is identify why the people who have problems are having them...

We have reverted some changes. We saved the posts made between last night and today but may have lost a few attachments. If any attachments are missing and you posted them in the past 24 hours, reupload them! Sorry about that.

We're looking at a number of issues that might be causing the hangups.

Yeah, we'll take a look and see if we can't find something.

Everything should be running as normal now.

This is Pacific Time now for the maintenance. Very late in the evening for east coast USA and randomly mornings and middle of the day for the rest of the world eastward. I don't anticipate needing much time to do this tonight as all the checks beforehand have gone through OK.

I'm going to be doing some server stuff tonight that may cause some downtime. The forum will be locked beforehand so we don't accidentally lose data.

Forum is open again. Got the files I needed. :cool:

Hey everyone, Just wanted to let you know that tonight around midnight eastern (9pm pacific) I'm going to lock the forum so I can do a little maintenance. I'm going to give myself a 2 hour window, but more likely I'll be able to unlock the forum within the first hour. -Ibrahim

Only benefit I can think of is it'd be safer to do the roof work closer to the ground? Maybe easier to find workers who can't work up high?

Beef is expensive, but we have a Costco Business Center about 45m drive from home. They carry all the stuff for restaurants and cafes, from pro-grade blenders and warming trays to big cuts of meat. They had big beef ribs in vaccuum-sealed packs of 2 plates. We looked for the heaviest we could...

Got some rib plates and cooked them up the other day. I've got a Pellet Grill and these were in for around 10 hours. Came out great, wife enjoyed em, and Muhammad took home some, too.

Image changes are a little slow right now because of the DNS change with our CDN. Basically, we all upload the images to our TBN server, and then when we access it, our CDN checks to see if 1) it has the image and 2) if the image on our server is the same as the one it has. If those are both...

Oh, are you saying the rich text controls are disabled for you? So you can't just click bold or press ctrl+b to get bold text? (Screenshots are always helpful!) There is a lot behind the scenes in terms of permissions we can set for users (individually AND via groups) for almost every feature...

I helped with the upgrade, naturally. Actually, I googled 4 different errors in the middle of the upgrade yesterday to find out what to do. Sure enough, problems solved. But forums are where the answers are. Sites like Facebook or Twitter or Instagram are great for sharing a picture or comment...

Wow! I remember Joomla! I had forgotten it until you mentioned it. But what a blast from the past! Not many sites can say we've been around 20+ years. Glad to have you all with us for it! (Were we all really 20 years younger when we started this???)

Hey all, So we're going to keep working on this, but it's unlikely we'll solve the image issue tonight. We need to contact our CDN and see what's going on. It *may* resolve on its own as DNS cache change over the next 24 hours. Or maybe we have a setting wrong and we'll fix it when we find it...

Settings updated. Try again?

What about when I attach the image? Do you see it as an attachment?

Hey Everyone! My house is currently getting city water and it's definitely not water I want to drink. We had a salesman come out from RainSoft to test our water and pitch us their system. My wife and I were really impressed with their presentation and it highlighted some pretty bad numbers for...

Hello Everyone! Like many of you, we woke up this morning to TBN being down! I couldn't even get into the server so I made a request to our host and they checked on the physical server. Turns out the power supply was malfunctioning and they replaced it! We seem to be back up and running and...

Tonight there will be a downtime for Tractorbynet. We expect the downtime to happen sometime between 9-10pm PDT (midnight on the east coast!) and it shouldn't be down for longer than 1 hour. We're doing routine server upgrades. Thanks for understanding! -Ibrahim

Hello! If you're reading this, you're on the new server which will house TBN for a good number of years in the future! We didn't change hosts or anything, just got some new hardware and software upgrades. We ran through clicking as many things as we could, and there are always a few bugs that...

We just spent 2 hours working out the bugs of a PHP upgrade. Sorry about that. The sites should be fine. Though there is a problem on the top of the reviews page. We're working on fixing that, but it appears to JUST be a warning message, not a fatal error. Try to ignore it until we get it...

If you're reading this (and you are) then the server move is successful and you're all set! If you notice anything broken, let me know. But it should be running just the same as it always was! -Ibrahim

A few minutes ago, people were unable to access TBN. I saw an issue with our server and restarted it. It appears to be running properly now, but I'll be keeping my eye on it. -Ibrahim

Howdy TBNers! Well, it seems no matter how big something is, we somehow manage to outgrow it. But, fortunately, we take a little bit of time so there are even BIGGER things out when it comes time to move. That's right, Tractorbynet.com is moving! Of course, you won't notice. We're going to...

Surprise! As soon as I step away from my computer, the server decides to reboot. We have a custom version of Apache that runs and has to be started manually if there is ever a reboot. We've got our eye on the server now, but it should be okay going forward. -Ibrahim

It turns out we had a connection between our main server and our database server that got broken sometime last night. It took a couple tries for them to get it working again. I mean the physical wire, too. But it's been fixed and so things seem to be working again. Sorry about that. -Ibrahim

As most of you noticed, we had a bit of downtime. Our database server just started refusing connections and we were stumped as to why for a while. Bad timing was that our lead sysadmin had just sat down to dinner and couldn't do much from the resturant. But as you can see, we got it sorted...

Hello, This morning our server rebooted and came back with the wrong apache version. I went in and turned that off and turned on the right one. I'm also going to reconfigure it to not use that anymore. Though I will, likely, put up a new "Server Down" message for when the server does come back...

The downtime you just experienced (if you were awake.) Was us moving to our new server. We may have some (more) strange behavior. And if you do notice anything, please let us know. I'll post more later, when we've totally finished up and we have more time to explain the new server setup. But...

Hi Folks, We had a bit of a server hiccup last night. Of course it happened around 3am for me which meant that it was a good 4 hours before I was up and able to deal with it. Sorry for the downtime, but at least it was for the morning and all seems to be back up now. -Ibrahim

Hello All, This is a notice to let you know that tomorrow we will be having a scheduled downtime for a server upgrade. We hope to have it back up and running within a few hours after it's taken down. The scheduled downtime will begin between noon and 4pm EST. This is a good time as any as...

Sorry about that slight hiccup, folks. But I got the site back up. No data was lost and we got back up quickly. If you notice any bugs, let me know. -Ibrahim

Hi All, I'm going to have some maintenance done at Midnight Eastern Time tonight. During this time, the forum will be unavailible. We have had some recurring problems that this will be able to sort out. Thanks for your patience. -Ibrahim

Hello All, I'm going to be upgrading our server in about 30 minutes. This will go rather quickly, but the forums will be inaccessible at that time. -Ibrahim

Overnight the Database hit a bug and crashed itself. It seems to have recovered but I expect there are a few bugs around. Please report any strange errors you find here. Missing posts, dupe posts, and things like that. Thanks, Ibrahim

Sorry about that downtime. We did a little maintenance that required the server to be rebooted. It happened late at night, and then surprisingly the Apache Process didn't start up on its own. So I started it manually when I woke up. Which was minutes ago. I don't expect to have to do that...

Hi Everyone, We will be taking down the database server for a short while tonight to upgrade the RAM and improve the performance of the forums. This is scheduled to take place tonight between 1am and 5am Eastern Time. (Actually Thursday Morning.) The forum will be unavailible during that...

Hate to spring this on everyone with such short notice. But I need to take down the site for some time in the next 15 minutes. I don't anticipate the downtime to be longer than 60 minutes. Hopefully much less. Sorry for the inconvenience. -Ibrahim

This morning we briefly had a server outage. It happened pretty early, so fortunately not many people were on the site. But the problem was found, solved, and the server was brought back online. Thanks for your patience. -Ibrahim

The recent Downtime was due to me fixing the search. It may be a bug with MySQL but we'll keep our eye on it. As usual, if you notice anything unusual let us know. -Ibrahim

The server automatically updated itself overnight. It didn't, however, restart itself properly. So the servers were down until I woke up and got into the box to restart them. Sorry about that folks! -Ibrahim

...Again! Ok folks, I was juggling with this for a while, but we always wanted to get it back and now we have. It's not as fast as the rest of the forum (unless you search individual forums) but it's not going to slow down the rest of our site. We will be monitoring the forum to make sure that...

Hey All, I'm changing a few things on the server. And the site will bounce on and off a few times while I do it. -Ibrahim

Hello Everyone, I just made changes to our DNS Records, and over the next 24 hours we should have a seamless switch to a new IP address. This is NOT our new server. This is just a new IP address. This will make the actual server switch MUCH faster and smoother. I do not anticipate problems...

Hello All, We will be shutting down the server briefly to allow for some file transferring later today. During that time, the forums, classifieds, advertising, dealer directory, and reviews will be unavailble. I do not anticipate more than a 15 minute downtime, but this will serve as notice to...

Hi Folks! As most of you probably noticed, we had a major slowdown earlier, followed almost immediately after by us closing the forums. The full details are rather technical so suffice it to say that we had to restore data from backup, and that took about 10-15 minutes. Everything should be in...

Hello Everyone, As you all are aware, we had serious issues with the "Past X Hours" being really slow and totally annoying to everyone. The 7-day listing will be taken away, since I don't think many people can bear to be away from TBN for a solid week. As a trade-off for taking this feature...

Hello Everyone, This morning sometime before 5:45am Mountain Standard Time, our server stopped responding. While it was still up and availible via Traceroute or Ping programs, nothing else was responding. We rebooted the machine and everything is running properly. There were no immediate...

Upgrading a few parts of the server. If the site goes down, you'll know why. (Of course, if the site is down, you can't read this.) -Ibrahim

Hello Everyone, This is just a note to inform everyone that I expect the site to be down from 1-4am Eastern Time, Tuesday July 22nd 2003. This is to upgrade the RAM in our physical server and we hope to bring much more speed and reliability to the site. Sorry for the inconvenience, Ibrahim

Alright Folks, Today we've been up and down numerous times as I restarted the server (I bet you thought it was your connection. ) I finished the changes I wanted to make. And I'll review and monitor it a bit more to see if we can't tweak some things. The major slowdowns in the past hour were...

Hello All, At approximately 2am Eastern Time tomorrow morning, the site will be down for an upgrade. This is the beginning of some upgrades this summer that will hopefully increase speed of the site. Strangely enough, this first upgrade may decrease performance slightly, but this is a...

Hey Everyone, A few minutes ago (1:40 server time) I restarted the mysql process to handle traffic spikes better. There was a slight downtime that most all of you probably noticed. But it's back up and running nicely. All the best, Ibrahim

I just did a little bit of maintenance which didn't go exactly as planned and it took me a couple minutes to undo my changes and bring the site back up. Sorry about that, but felt in light of recent events, a short post would be appreciated so no one gets alarmed. Thanks, Ibrahim

That was my fault. I didn't expect the perl install to have any problems, yet it did, so we're going to put it off for a while (I'm thinking midnight on a weekend) until we're at an off-peak hour and try it again. But don't worry. Things are still stable as long as I stay out of it. I will...

I came across this today and thought most of you would get a kick out of it. -Ibrahim

Just thought I'd tell you all what we're running on now. We have a single server running RedHat Linux 6.2 It has a 750mhz AMD Processor (Which hasn't been taken below 90% idle since we started) 256MB Ram (Which is the first thing we'll have to upgrade, in a few months?) 9.1 GB SCSI (The SCSI...