Recent content by Mike Bobbitt

Follow-up, some issues have been found and fixed, knock on wood we are entering a period of better stability.

Yeah, I've been keenly aware of the stability issues, which motivated me to push this upgrade forward. Hopefully it helps. If nothing else, I should be able to get a better insight into the source!

Folks, I have completed upgrades on our servers (web front-end and database) please let me know if you encounter any issues. Many thanks Mike

Hi, Thanks for the intent to support the site. Can you provide the link that you used? The site is not set up to accept Visa so I suspect you may not have been in the right spot. There are subscribe and donate links in the menu bar at the top. If you start there, you should be OK. Thanks Mike

Much appreciated!

Many thanks - found and fixed!

Do you happen to know what page you saw that link on? The correct link at the top of all the forms pages is: https://army.ca/forums/account/upgrades I suspect, though that an older link still exists somewhere out there.

Many thanks all, I’m going to do a deep dive this weekend, but through the generous support of so many, we are in good shape! I truly appreciate the depth of the support, thank you all! Cheers Mike

Thanks for your patience folks. There is now a "Donate" link at the top that takes you to https://army.ca/donate. The payment info on that page now works again. :) As a cost saving measure some months back I let the Milnet.ca domain lapse, but hadn't cleaned out all of the references to that...

Er… looks like that page is gone/broken, I’ll have to give it some TLC this weekend. I probably should have looked into that first lol!

Many thanks folks, it is never expected but truly appreciated!

As a follow-up post, I'll collect and answer your questions here. FAQs Can you replace the lost income? As the work funding Army.ca is not my full-time job, I'm not really in a position to replace that funding by picking up another contract. Can you move to a cheaper hosting service? Cheaper...

Folks, I wanted to provide an update as a few things have changed recently. Bottom line up front: We have incurred some big server costs while our key source of funding has dried up. Army.ca is no longer financially self-sustaining. The Funding Very few folks know that Army.ca has been...

It’s not you, it’s me. The server keeps running out of memory and the search service crashes. I’ve added some scripting to auto-restart it, but it seems to work maybe 1/3 of the time. More investigation needed!

Yeah sorry folks, was on the road and did not notice.