HOC website encryption certificate - what happened to it?

justinmc

justinmc

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I see that we don't have an encryption certificate at the moment... perhaps it's been missing for a while and I didn't notice?

 
Apologies, I should have inspected more closely before flagging this. The cert is there. It doesn't redirect from http to https (a current best practice), and search engine results for "heritage owners club" return the http URL, so I expect that many people are hitting the http service, which is unencrypted.

 
I have updated the board software this morning. This should resolve a few issues that users seemed to be experiencing. I've also changed the base URL from http:// to https://, which should force SSL. Maybe. We'll see.

 
Administrator said:
I have updated the board software this morning. This should resolve a few issues that users seemed to be experiencing. I've also changed the base URL from http:// to https://, which should force SSL. Maybe. We'll see.
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Holy cow!  Whatever you did, Mr. Administrator, cleared up a litany of oddities here.  THANK YOU for your efforts keeping us'ns up to date in this online world connecting with the faithful.
How apropos is it that you do it on a Sunday.  Hope all is well in Admin-land.

 
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Well, the site has certainly got over its latency tendencies, which is greatly appreciated.  For a long time I've been thinking all those electrons had to slow down before they jumped over the border, but I'm glad someone found a way around that.

 
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I have updated the board software this morning. This should resolve a few issues that users seemed to be experiencing. I've also changed the base URL from http:// to https://, which should force SSL. Maybe. We'll see.
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@Administrator...Thank you for all you do for the HOC...from behind the curtain!  You are truly great and powerful.  ?

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Great.   I normally only go to HTTPS sites, but this was the one exception.   Occasionally a browser update would just tell me "WHOA!  DANGER AHEAD".    Now I'll only get that warning from the porn sites!

 
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Great.   I normally only go to HTTPS sites, but this was the one exception.   Occasionally a browser update would just tell me "WHOA!  DANGER AHEAD".    Now I'll only get that warning from the porn sites!
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Me Too!

All over sudden, I can traverse to page two.  Nice job!

 
Is anyone else experiencing extremely slow response times?    It's taking a minute or 2 to load some pages.   Other sites are clicking normally, it's just the HOC.   I'll click a topic, go off to another site, and come back after it quits spinning.

 
TalismanRich said:
Is anyone else experiencing extremely slow response times?    It's taking a minute or 2 to load some pages.   Other sites are clicking normally, it's just the HOC.   I'll click a topic, go off to another site, and come back after it quits spinning.
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Once in perhaps 100 tries.  Based on the inability to do so many other options, I'll take it.

 
Its weird.   Last night it was a crawl.  This afternoon, it clicked in about 2 seconds.   Maybe I'm logging in at the same time as all the webcrawler bots.  

 
Could be any number of things. There are some 250+ tables in the database that underlies the HOC. Backups run nightly, weekly, monthly. Could be the backups are running long. Could be someone hasn't done any database maintenance in many months (but is now done). Could be the board software really prefers/is optimized for (in recent versions) a different db engine than what half the tables are using (something someone will definitely have to address at some point, but it's kind of a pain). 

Just as an aside, there are somewhere north of 2.1 million rows in the HOC database, spread across the various tables. You all have been...busy these last 16 years. ;)  

 
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