Recent content by Mike Bobbitt

That's an interesting story, and I think highlights that there's a lot to unpack with this recent issue. Apologies in advance for the big post. :) PHP was found to have catastrophic vulnerabilities, but I don't believe that makes it much different than any software or system that has evolved...

And thanks all for your patience, I know how frustrating it can be when the site is slow or unavailable!

Yep, and there's a lot of stuff out there that is is discontinued, unsupported, forgotten, etc. I foresee a lot of expensive stuff chucked as e-waste and replaced with new "battle tested" gear. But before that happens there's going to be a lot of small organizations wiped off the map because...

Whoops, totally missed this one and only accidentally found it when I was testing to see if I broke search. :) Bruce is right, this is kinda my wheelhouse. We were patched the moment the news broke, along with every IOT device and router in my home network. Hold on to your hats, AI is going to...

Good morning folks, was able to team up with AI and had a pretty solid troubleshooting session this morning. Biggest issue seemed to be bots triggering site search, which is computationally expensive. They can't do that now. Using AI to fight bots makes me question my life choices a bit, but...

Thanks, took some measures earlier this morning and hopefully things have improved a bit.

Did an unplanned server upgrade. Seems to have helped! Fingers crossed it stays ok.

As you can see Bruce, we are not out of the woods yet! Thanks for letting me know when there are issues.

Update: User has contacted me to request this post, which has been approved. Thanks

Before you log in you'll get the "public" experience, which can feel a bit like being teleported into a casino. :)

Update: Disabled the search indexer for now, things are responsive... but search won't work.

Same... looking into it as I'm able. Thanks for your patience!

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Deletion inbound...

Thanks, turns out the system was running out of memory, and the search indexer (elasticsearch) is a bit of a memory hog. The "out of memory manager" for the server was killing it. Ironically, due to other recent server issues, I ratcheted up the early out of memory aggression, contributing to...