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Nominated.

No. It's completely understandable, considering you run an admin forum. I run general and niche topics with low user bases that if it went offline, I wouldn’t care as much till I could get it back online for the good Ole apology/welcome back email.

I was at the theater when [mention=1]Cedric[/mention] posted the link to the new style, and I had to check my Chrome settings to make sure I wasn't on "Desktop site". In 2024? No thanks on that. :ROFLMAO:

Probably for the best then as even little things like that can negatively impact your mental health and then have an effect on your overall life. So, it's probably worth it, and understandable, for you to pay the extra to relieve that worry. I don't have a concern over money, but I didn't get to where I am by overpaying or other unscrupulous spending. I'd rather buy an extra share of a high dividend ETF. Forums are also secondary/thirdary(?) sources to me too, so that also factors into my decision to do it the way I do.

That's a worry of mine too, as to why I want to learn load balancing. I think it's even possible to see where you're getting the most traffic (like US: East or West coast, Canada, UK, or Aussie, etc.) and load balancing judges based on that to pop an instance up in that location so that the processing speeds aren't only better, but response times too. Someone with more knowledge would have to correct me on that, but if that's true, that is one of the most awesome aspects I find with it.

Ah, the "my truck is bigger than your truck" way of thinking. 😅 I like to use the most minimal settings possible and then scale up when needed. It's quite easy to monitor what is needed and when and then scale up to support that. Though, I would love to learn more about AWS and Cloud in general to not scale up permanently, until absolutely needed, and instead launch a new instance to load balance instead, destroying it when it's no longer needed. I haven't gotten around to testing that, nor have enough traffic to try as 2 vCPU/2 GB has no problem struggling with what I have, and have only ever gotten to the point of requiring 4 vCPU/8 GB RAM (but also used that instance for personal use as a VPN amongst other things, which I no longer do as I'm incorporating finally and that makes it kind of messy with finances). I would probably do it on 1 vCPU/1 GB RAM to test and learn at first before requiring true minimum spec requirements to load balance with.

PM'd it

Take your time. In a movie now.

I'm satisfied with what I've seen. Payment has been sent.

Love the THANK-YOU at the end. 🤣

MyBB gives me vB3 vibes, which is kind of neat. I wouldn't mind joining a MyBB community if it were active.

I don't think he does publicly, that I'm aware (of like a "services" page), but I knew from experience of asking him for custom XF styling that he might be able to help, so I reached out to him to ask for corrections which he was able to do. Very talented in the CSS department and my #1 go-to if I need anything done in that area, but mostly it's for XF as I mainly work with XF.

I know. I'm just recommending 3 that are capable of and offer the services requested, based on my anecdotal experience working with them on XF-specific styling. BassMan is the only one I asked for CSS services (styling) that wasn't specifically for XF.

Definitely recommended if you want flat UI as almost all his current styles are just that. But if you want flat UI 2.0 (like with a little shadowing or borders), I'd suggest DoH. I'm currently working on an edit of one of their themes to roll out on a board. I also had Russ of PixelExit do a custom theme, which was a basic edit of the default style. I also got him to convert his free Invision theme for 2.3 support (dark mode). He's easy to work with if you want customization. To add uniqueness to your forum, you might like the XF addons from BassMan (on XF), or contact him after you have something in mind to tweak a bit more as he's great all-around with CSS.

I like it. Can you also include this for the same price? I may use it in the copyright footer. White text preferable for it. [ATTACH type=full" alt="1731154662088.webp]386[/ATTACH]

I'll be away for the next 2-3 hours, so no rush.

I like this one the best. The only tweaking I'd like on it is the outline of the emoji to be thicker as it doesn't quite represent an O with the weight of the other fonts used.

What version of ES are you using and in Docker or a standalone installation? I'd try pulling the Docker 7.10.2 version. Easiest configuration and have had no problems. Quite odd to fail on 16GB RAM multiple times while ES7 given only 1GB has more uptime.

Sounds good. Get on it! :-P I don't know how to pay? Buy credits or what? Or wait until a mockup is done first?

Rock, rap, hip-hop, club music, grunge, punk, ska, ... I pretty much like all music, even jazz if I need to get focused.

I wish I could do this. I have to do it the old school way with a pen and paper, but would really like a whiteboard instead so that it would also give me a bit more physical activity to get up and check it off. I'd prepare the tasks the night before and ensure they're done during the next day. I've tried the spreadsheet method (or a document), but I tend to fail to meet goals, either because I set too many (which wouldn't fit on a whiteboard, leaving me open to do more), or because my ADHD gets to me and I skip around and fail to do one task because I prioritize another on the spot where a whiteboard done up the night before (10-15 minutes) would force me to go in order. I try to achieve this with my forum post trading, and could probably do 200-400 per day as I am a fast typer and can do it, but I also create 2-4 threads per day and try to reply to as many as I can on my own. The only thing holding me back from doing that many is there aren't enough topics to reply to, no fault of the other board's owner. I opened them all myself. Fortunately, I was able to "change owner" on at least 1 thread recently (as I wouldn't do it without explicit permission) to balance out the look of it. However, this is something that you need to do as they're not going to open themselves. Some would say this is unattractive to guests, but as an old time forum user, I would say otherwise. I would lurk a forum that has posts by the admin to see if I get the feel that the community could grow into something that I would enjoy participating in, then sign up, and start posting there. On my to-do list is a Xenforo Project Management System built for teams (the forum is secondary for specific communication on task clarification). I'll keep you in mind to give an exclusive/lifetime account to manage a team and projects in exchange for your feedback on how it should function over your spreadsheet which could help with productivity over the spreadsheet (once you're used to it). Like the XF alerts/emails that are sent out at the time you're supposed to complete it and even 10 minutes before as a reminder. It'd be interesting to see your spreadsheet setup so that I can incorporate some type of minimalistic import functionality so it would reduce clicks to create tasks and whatnot by importing new tasks from each row. Like (an example of 1 row) [TABLE width=100%] [TR] [th width=16.6332%]Task[/th][th width=16.6332%]Start/Due[/th][th width=16.6332%]Reminder[/th][th width=16.6332%]Instructions[/th][th width=16.6667%]Assigned to[/th][th width=16.6332%]Priority[/th] [/TR] [TR] [td width=16.6332%]Create 5 threads on XXX.[/td][td width=16.6332%] Tomorrow 9 AM, End 10 AM[/td][td width=16.6332%]EOD; 30 minutes prior; 10 minutes prior[/td][td width=16.6332%]Complete 2 threads about X. Complete 3 posts around the forum.[/td][td width=16.6667%]Self @Other User[/td][td width=16.6332%][1-10][/td] [/TR] [/TABLE]

This likely isn't the issue, but sometimes even the best of us can overlook a simple setting (like I did with not checking an auto-backup checkbox). Are you running it in Docker and has your system ever rebooted that you know of, manual or automatic (what is uptime)? I don't know how it's set up outside of Plesk (the docker-compose.yml configuration), but there is this checkbox... [ATTACH type=full" alt="1731005005061.webp]380[/ATTACH] "Automatic start after system reboot" Could be your instance rebooting from cluster maintenance to you doing a manual reboot to a system upgrade rebooting it automatically, but it happens so quickly you don't notice, thus knocking it offline if it's not set to start after a reboot.

Your forum has sure changed a lot since becoming a member there. Good to see it progress.

All valid points. I just wanted to say, as my work on ForumDiscovery goes on and I try to find Invision boards, I'm finding it difficult to get boards that a more generalized audience would want. It seems like a majority of them are for companies to manage users/bugs/tickets, etc., but I haven't gotten access to the full list to go through yet ($250); that's just from Google scraping. Examples would be like Sony (not confirmed, just throwing a corporation out to emphasize its user base) to get Playstation or A* camera series feedback. You'd expect these corporations to have a capable IT team to run a board, yet they still pick convenience. Oh, a PRIME example would be LinusTechTips - he can do anything, and many in his company can too, yet they run Invision.

I can't argue that. I'm just merely pointing out that Elasticsearch 8 requires a much more expensive VPS as it requires 4 GB, or 8 GB total memory (you might be able to hack it down to 2 GB, but that'd still be a 4 GB total instance which is getting into the mid-tier zone). In contrast, you can get Elasticsearch 7 to boot in Docker on a 2 GB instance only using 1 GB and see no performance issues on a VPS running several small boards. So, there isn't an excuse not to try out Vultr (or Linode or S3) and learn how to manage your instances. It's a lot easier (and cheaper than VPS providers) if you install a control panel like cPanel. Just need to learn how to snapshot instances for quick recovery and backup as you typically would from your cPanel installation on shared hosting (which, hopefully, people do at the minimum). If you're going to manage a forum, you might as well get a little bit more IT education to manage it as efficiently and as cheaply as possible. With a control panel, you don't need CLI (command-line) to control things, but it would give you the opportunity to learn that and break away from using a control panel, if you so chose.