New Software and Hardware.

[kato13]

Alright, since we were disabled I took the time to upgrade our hardware and software.

Hardware.
We have a new box with 4x the processing power and 8x the RAM. I am also moving the gaming site onto a new box to prevent heavy CPU processing actions on that site from effecting the forum. When we were hit by several spam registration bots at the same time we did max out CPU. Hopefully that is now an issue of the past.

Software.
I upgraded us from Vbulletin version 3.5.1 to version 3.8.3. While many of the new functions seem unnecessary for our small, polite and not at all cliquish group. (Friends lists, Infraction warning systems, social groups, etc.) there are a few enhancements worth noting. The ability to quote multiple posts and an avatar enhancement, which should improve page load times ,are both things I found interesting. There might be other functions I am unaware of so if you find anything interesting please post it here.

Also if you find any issues please post or PM me. It is very difficult to find and test every function so I would really appreciate hearing about any issues you might find. Any avatar issues in particular I would like to hear about.

Remaining Issues
Due to a complete reconfiguration of my network several things outside the forum are currently not functional:

My gaming site is currently going through both an IP and and a server migration. Its functions may not be fully functional until Monday.

My email address for this site as well as my personal email address are both non functional at the moment. I am therefore requesting that PMs be used over emails.

Once I have all my remaining network functions fully established, I will probably take everything down for a 4-6 hour period next weekend for a simplification of my wiring, power, and cooling infrastructure.