Forum upgrade today - update: it's done

[neptronix]

Howdy folks!

We're doing a really big upgrade to the forum in the next 10 minutes. Expect a little downtime!

 

[jetpackjbd]

Howdy folks!

We're doing a really big upgrade to the forum in the next 10 minutes. Expect a little downtime!

So long, slightly different ES forums…

 

[neptronix]

All done!
Just moved us up about +2 years in Xenforo version and +10 years in PHP version.

Everything seems to be working as expected... do let me know here if you see otherwise.

 

[neptronix]

Okay, some more checks here..

The good:
- Search speed seems to be 2.5x faster!
- Page generation speed about 2.5x faster
- Between these two changes, we have enough performance gain to drop our hosting plan a notch next summer and you won't even notice a drop in performance from that

The bad:
- Old PHPBB forum is broken... working on it!

 

[neptronix]

Old PHPBB fixed. Just a problem with dev/prod server configuration differences in the end.

Um... we should be golden as far as i know! I'm surprised such a large upgrade went this well!
I'll be on the watch, and let me know if you notice anything is busted.

Major props to the big Kahuna for completing this monster deploy!