One further update: I noticed a huge spike in traffic on the CP (Christian Photographers) site, with over 8,000 guests online at once (and the "most online" was at over 10,000 today), despite the site being basically dead (no new posts in 2 years). I enabled "Under Attack" mode there as well, and will probably disable it for this site.

Every time I see the 500 failure (so far since I've been checking) then get on I see Baidu, and just now Baidu(2).

Well, I know the bot upkeep is working. When I attempted to sign in this morning, the system first tested to see if I was a bot...  

Same for me but it wouldn't believe me when I said I wasn't.  Had to try several times.  I am not a fan of Cloudflare Security

First, it was the 500 error, and now the bot check seems to be one more step to logging in.

I believe the "bot check" is to prevent the 500 error.

The bot check was to prevent the 500 error, but it seems they were mainly hitting another site. I've disabled the bot check on this site for the time being but left it up on CP since that site's basically dead anyway. I'll keep an eye on things though.

This page isn't working
www.seniorsandfriends.org is currently unable to handle this request.
HTTP ERROR 500

still problems?

Bumping this topic again because I'm going to be moving to a new host again in the coming weeks. The reason this time is a bit more technical but also due to cost.

There has been a security issue with the core part of the operating system and the developers of the particular version of Linux used on this server have taken a long time to get a patch released (while other versions of Linux have had it patched for weeks). While setting up a new server at the current host is simple, the cost of having it at a data center in the US (versus one in Europe) would increase my hosting costs by about $30 a month, and I was able to find another host with a similar plan, hosted in the US, for about the same price as what I'm currently paying.

I don't have a timeline of when the move will occur as I still need time to set up the new server the way I want it, but it will probably be within the next week as I'm off work all this week (using up some vacation time before peak season blackout goes into effect in about a week and a half)

Like last time I don't anticipate any problems or downtime but I'll be keeping an eye on things anyway to help fix any issues that may arise

Michael, thank you for the heads up, hoping everything runs smoothly for you and for us...

I already transferred one domain over (I have several that I use for playing with/testing things so it's easy to do that) and everything's working great so far.

           

Michael I'm hoping when you make the move it transfers for both you and us easily - will the old link I used to enter Seniors & Friends work and if not how do I find the sight - I'm still using firefox as my browser and I have a year's extension so still using Windows 10

Quote from: BarbStAubrey on November 07, 2026, 08:16:04 PMMichael I'm hoping when you make the move it transfers for both you and us easily - will the old link I used to enter Seniors & Friends work and if not how do I find the sight - I'm still using firefox as my browser and I have a year's extension so still using Windows 10

The link will remain the same. It should only take a few minutes to transfer the site based on my experiences transferring other domains on the server.

Site has been moved. Let me know if you run into any problems

Wow - I would never have known unless you said something - so far all's well... thanks for keeping us safe...

Quote from: BarbStAubrey on <strong>Yesterday</strong> at 10:01:40 PMWow - I would never have known unless you said something - so far all's well... thanks for keeping us safe...

I told you it wouldn't take long 😀

Thank you Michael, you  are a pro!
All works perfectly, it's perfect.

You did good, Michael.  Everything seemed to go smoothly.  Thank you for your good work keeping us oldies connected to each other.