Kevin's Watch

But now it might be fixed properly

Woohoo!! That's fixed!!

Well done.

Awesome, thanks Vain.

(Also, it has been more than a month of Sundays since his last post before these. Somewhere around 3 months of Sundays.)

--A

I was trying to be kind.

Fist and Faith wrote:I was trying to be kind.

I was rhinking what Av said

Vain is immune to kindness.

--A

My bad.

Vain wrote: ↑ Bound to be a few issues with the switch. Needed to set it up on a VPS as the shared hosts wouldn't touch this code with a 10 foot barge pole.

I think the SSL is sorted - I set it to force SSL redirect and my warning went away.

If you're having an error message pop up, please stick a screenshot of it in your post.

I can't do anything about the weird characters not showing correctly sorry

Also not entirely sure what's happening with the email thing but will check it out

Sounds like a classic case of "it works... mostly!" Setting it up on a VPS Server was definitely the right call—shared hosts can be a bit allergic to custom code. SSL behaving is a win, at least! As for the email and weird characters, maybe they’ve just decided to take the day off. If things get too wild, a solid VPS Server from HostNoc might just keep the gremlins in check!

@Davidmenk3 That's a very interesting first post. Welcome to the Watch.

LOL, bot probably. If it wasn't for "new poster" rules that bold product name would probably be a link.

(If I'm wrong, apologies. )

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Wow, just had three days of not being able to load the site. Thought it was a permanent end to KW and started posting on Facebook as an alternative, which went against the grain very much.

Tried to get on discord to find out what was happening but it simply won't let me on.

Altogether an unhappy few days.

I had to learn how to use CSF - looks like some IP ranges were hitting the site en masse for days - no idea why! But it seems to be back to normal speed now I think?

Vain wrote: ↑Tue May 06, 2025 8:33 am I had to learn how to use CSF - looks like some IP ranges were hitting the site en masse for days - no idea why! But it seems to be back to normal speed now I think?

Nice one thanks. Yeah, everything appears to be up and running well, long may it continue.

--A

Hahah yeah hopefully it is long lasting If you look at visitor totals, it ramped up to 2700ish hence CPU usage hitting 200% - it's not meant to go above 80% otherwise things start getting throttled. I will keep an eye out over the next few days and check the logs - but I think basically if your IP address is 47.*.*.* then you're pretty fucked as the firewall should block pretty much everything with that.....that's if I understood the instructions correctly - but the current logs are showing them as gone burgers so looking like it's working for now

Vain wrote: ↑if your IP address is 47.*.*.* then you're pretty fucked as the firewall should block pretty much everything with that.....

Hahaha, well, I hope we're not affecting any legit watchers...

(And I wonder why...) (Oh well. As long as it's working.)

Thanks again.

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So as long as Av and Vain don't kick the bucket, we should be ok

StevieG wrote: ↑ So as long as Av and Vain don't kick the bucket, we should be ok

Right? I have no idea what the conversation is about.

However, thanks @Vain!

Thank you vain.