Recent content by torontotim

Yep - I've moved to KnownHost. Because I didn't have cpanel there was a 1 hour service charge for the migration but it went smoothly and things are snappy and updated. I tried the DIY but it was becoming more work than I have time for and the traffic hitting the site would likely have caused...

I've decided to give self-hosting from home a try. I have 3Gb/3Gb fiber internet to my desk and a spare M4 Mac Mini. Installing the various bits (MAMP, No-IP etc.) and will see if I can make that work. Probably should have done it a couple of years ago and saved myself a bunch of Linode cost...

I know this is like asking what motor oil is 'best' on a motorcycle forum, but there you go. I'm looking to move away from VPS. I have had my forum on Linode for a looooong time and have no time or inclination to keep the server up to date etc and pay the high cost I am to host there. I'm...

FWIW I just encountered this on my forum for the first time ever. I've been on Xenforo for almost 6 years now. This resolved it, even though it appears to have been empty. MariaDB [(none)]> truncate db_xf.xf_session_activity; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.022 sec)

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Not nearly enough. The heyday was back in 2017 or so. Loads of affiliate revenue, tons of activity, page views etc. Turned down a high 5 figure offer from VerticalScope back then to sell and am still glad I did as I made more money keeping it and more importantly I’ve kept my core dedicated...

I’ll check out spaminator. It was just a flurry but it was north of 100 daily. With my IFTTT Facebook integration the spam posts were making it there forcing me to turn that off and repeatedly delete FB posts. In 5 years I had over 10,000 spam accounts in the queue to delete so that gives you...

As mentioned I’m using captcha and have tried all the variants in the platform. Recently a flurry of accounts made it through and were all posting Temu coupons. So forum owners be warned - there are bots out there who can circumvent all the Xenforo obstacles. 30 second timer on the...

So maybe the add-on is interfering - I'll remove it and try again. Sure enough, that worked. Disabling the add-on returns to normal behaviour. My dissatisfaction with the approval queue remains - no standard batch processing makes it pretty useless when you get nailed with thousands of...

Yep - invalid user state. I got the add-on because I had 10,000+ ancient spam-bot user registrations that I simply ignored for 5 years. So I needed a quick way to go through them and delete them. I didn't want to get into SQL at the time. The plug-in works fine - [XB] Approval Queue...

I've had to temporarily revert to approving all new members, because somehow some TEMU coupon posting bots are making it past every single Captcha option in Xenforo. Purchased an add-on so I can batch-reject and delete a bunch of them. However - when I Approve one, it REMAINS IN THE BLOODY...

My mistake all around. Was using a new FTP client, and I'm not sure what compelled me to press that tempting orange button, but I did, and I have no idea what it did. Just that the site was all of a sudden unavailable.

LOL - wish it hadn't been fixed. Just downloaded, pushed to the site and went to 'install'. It reported that I was already on the latest version 2.2.6 Patch 1. I stupidly hit the 'rebuild data' button or whatever it is on the screen (not fresh install) and my forum is dead. Restoring from...

Confirmed - working now!

Getting this regardless of what I try to download from my Account page. Not that it matters, but using either Chrome or Safari on macOS Monterey.