I just wanted to drop a quick note and let folks know that SSL encryption testing is happening. That means that practically HTTPS will become the new standard for both the forums and the main site in the next month or so.
HTTPS incoming as the new STH standard
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Have you considered using a reverse proxy to handle the SSL and then keep the actual webservers and cache on an internal segment?
That is what it basically is going to end up happening. The big issue is keeping sessions straight.
BTW if you are in Dallas Monday/ Tuesday let me know. Should be here next Monday too.
Getting on a plane to Chicago right now then headed to NY for a long weekend. Will be in Sf at some point next week. Haven't booked yet though.
I will look into that. The big issue right now is just I need it to be easily maintained and I need to be able to get folks to admin it with minimal complexity if I cannot get to an urgent issue.
Hopefully folks can see this message.
I changed the forums over to HTTPS. It seems to have worked on my first try after my previous 10 practice runs.
Please let me know if you have any issues... of course if there are issues... nobody will be able to read this.
I changed the forums over to HTTPS. It seems to have worked on my first try after my previous 10 practice runs.
Please let me know if you have any issues... of course if there are issues... nobody will be able to read this.
Not to derail the discussion, but have improvements been made for backups?
I like new tech as much as anyone on this forum but the data loss we had a while back was pretty catastrophic. Many a good post were lost
Just wondering if that was still a high priority.
I like new tech as much as anyone on this forum but the data loss we had a while back was pretty catastrophic. Many a good post were lost
Just wondering if that was still a high priority.
Right now both sites are copied across a total of six different physical disks. Replication is setup (actually have an article on that one) and there is also a backup to AWS that happens on a fairly regular basis.Not to derail the discussion, but have improvements been made for backups?
I like new tech as much as anyone on this forum but the data loss we had a while back was pretty catastrophic. Many a good post were lost
Just wondering if that was still a high priority.
The full second colo/ DR site is not up just yet though, but it is penciled in for late September.
For the time being I am just going with the idea that disks are cheap so we are copying across different ones, different brands, spindle, SSD and cloud.
@Patrick heads up your SSL certificate is using SHA-1 signature algorithms which Chrome browsers are downgrading from Chrome 39+ SSL - Chrome browser 39+ sunsetting SHA-1 SSL signatures | Centmin Mod Community You'd want to contact your SSL provider to reissue your SSL certificate with SHA-2 i.e. using SHA256