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Server memory issues resolved.

MariaDB had a huge memory leak which they introduced in a recent security update. They issued a patch

https://mariadb.org/mariadb-10-5-8-10-4 ... available/

More administrative updates: Disabled memberlist.php entry script to debug database memory leak. Purged approximagely 30,000 users who had created accounts but never logged in or posted anything (at least 99.9+% spam) It is possible that some legitimate users may have been caught in this dragnet. If...

All feeds currently disabled to disagnose memory usage issue

If any of our long term users here want to volunteer to become moderators, please ask. Mods will have the responsibility of approving new users and banning spammers. @JPG thank you for volunteering for this. I approved your request (which I didn't see it until just now. Still figuring this thing out)

A few forum policy changes tonight: - Purged several thousand spam users - Enabled google ReCaptcha because the PHP GD image captcha was not working. I belive PHP GD has been cracked - Changed default user group to "Newsly Registered Users" (NRU) - NRU group will have to have their first p...

I will be purging inactive accounts tonight. This should not affect any legitimate users, just users who created accounts but never logged in.

Just updated phpBB software.

Still debugging the database memory issue. Looks like denial of service related to bot attacks. Please bear with us while we resolve this.

We had a few memory glitches this weekend on the new server but hopefully they have been resolved. If you noticed any downtime it was from me adjusting memory settings for the database. There is a lot of of malicious traffic coming to the forum here from various other countries (which probably do no...

ryanbp01 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 10, 2020 8:33 pm I have already bookmarked this site until the link works on the owner website.
BPR

All the old forum links on the web site should be redirecting to the new URL forum.shopsmith.com
If you run into any links that don't work, please let us know which page they are on.

Thanks
-Dan M

Yes, thank you to SS IT for all their hard work.. I wondered what happened to the Shopsmith forum skin because that is what I have been using for years. However, it has only taken me two days to get used to this format and actually I find it very nice. Again, kudos to admin for all their hard work....