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Sanguine

Fla Thanks, working on it.

Fla

@Sanguine everything is working

Sanguine

Post mortem

Freeflarum and its hosted forums were down on January 18th, 2018 from 6:03 to 7:05 UTC.

Cause
The cause was a MariaDB file descriptor limit, kicking in due to the number of hosted forums (360).

Solution
Increase FD limit in OS settings, systemd settings and MariaDB settings. Merge with deployment tasks for future servers.

Meta
Monitoring worked as expected. At 6:03 the application level monitoring detected the first anomaly. At 6:04 the external service monitoring confirmed the outage. It took 12 minutes to identify the cause, then 15 minutes to implement a fix, 10 minutes to validate the fix and 3 minutes to merge the fix in the deployment system.

Fla

Sanguine

Create an account on Twitter or blog on Wordpress. Communicate the news and the difficulties. Customers should know that you are working on a problem.

Arkinn

Sanguine

Admiring your dedication @Sanguine really good work keep it up ?

Sanguine

Fla That is valid feedback! Will put a procedure improvement on the todo list.

OrdinaryJellyfish

Sanguine For that, you could make a Wordpress blog or Twitter account, but I suggest something like an AdminLabs status page. You can manually add incidents, and it'll automatically detect and show outages for you if you configure it correctly.

Sanguine

jazzi You are in China, right? Does @Pollux's solution work for you? Otherwise, I consider to launch a Chinese optimized version of FreeFlarum (non-Google dependencies, only IDs in URL, default Chinese localization, servers in or close to China).

Fla @Sanguine add please https://discuss.flarum.org/d/3215-google-analytics

Thanks for suggesting, have put it in the backlog. Currently there's an extension freeze at FreeFlarum, pending the release of Flarum beta8. As this release will break all existing extensions, I don't want to introduce new dependencies right now that might block an upgrade.

jazzi

Thank you Pollux , this works.
Yes Sanguine , that sounds very nice to put servers in or close to China, maybe HK (CN2 directly connected is better), you will get a huge leap of the speed.

Kirkman

hello @Sanguine , could you please add this user list extension, seems pretty crucial for admins... ? thank you ? https://discuss.flarum.org/d/1540-flagrow-guardian-an-additional-security-layer

Ralkage

Kirkman that extension has been abandoned.

There are other extensions that handle that on a Forum and Admin level.

Admin Level:
reflar/user-management
flagrow/users-list

Forum Level:
flagrow/user-directory

I highly support searching for packages via https://flagrow.io/.

Felli

Just out of personal taste and not wanting to manually code it in through custom CSS, maybe we could add the Color Circles for Groups extension? ?

Sanguine

Felli Certainly! But let's await beta8 first.

Fla

@Sanguine long wait beta8?

Sanguine

Fla I do not know, it is not up to me... But there are some nice improvements in the pipeline.

Fla

Someone confirmed his site in google console (google webmaster)? If so, how?

Fla

Fla ok. It seems that Google does not like. And how do you track the development of the forum?

Sanguine

Fla Someone confirmed his site in google console (google webmaster)? If so, how?

At the moment, it is not possible unfortunately. In the future, it would be possible to use header tags, but for that, Flarum requires an setting/extension to add custom <head> tags (at the moment it will put the custom head in the <body>).

Trost I remember seeing 100 users limit mentioned somewhere in this topic. Is this still the case?

Currently, the limits are five times the average of all users of the service (see terms).

W-a flarum-ext-auth0?

Will merge it when it is updated to work with beta8!

wumix Flagrow Upload is wat i missing.

This free service will not provide uploading of custom files (apart from avatars). But in the future, the paid version might do so.

Trost

I remember seeing 100 users limit mentioned somewhere in this topic. Is this still the case?
Looking at https://www.freeflarum.com/about and I don't see any of that now. Does it mean that there are no hard limit on database size\amount of users\bandwith?

Fla

Sanguine https://discuss.flarum.org/d/8644-webcache

W-a

https://github.com/mprove-io/flarum-ext-auth0?

wumix

Flagrow Upload is wat i missing.
Love greetings

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