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Rodion (admin)     2021-02-11 10:22:30
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Friends, I'm sorry for the site was down since yesterday night. It looks web-hosting management made small update to libraries and this lead to problem connecting to database.

I think I should invent some "watchdog" which can send me alarms when site goes unresponsible. Sorry once more.

UPD: it rather was not "small update" but forcible switch to PHP7 from PHP5.5 :o

yurkohudyma     2021-02-11 11:02:45

Thanx for a quick response!

kostis_k     2021-02-11 14:50:01
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You had us worried there for a while. Glad to see everything is in working order once again! Have a good evening!

Rodion (admin)     2021-02-11 15:16:55
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Thank you Friends for your kind words!

I figured out that web-hosting switched to PHP7 :) Probably it was long expected but I never thought it may come that suddenly.

Besides database connectivity issue there is small problem yet to solve - editing of forum posts was broken (and even opening forum if you have edit link in any of the posts) - as they removed encryption function which was used for generation of such urls. Well, this is the lesson - don't use whimsical functions unless strictly necessary :)

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