Age of the website and forum

Thanks to @JT! I didn't realise it was all down to one person!
I only have a small website without a forum and that's a lot of work. Thank you for doing all this and keeping it running.

Just installing and setting it up is not enough, as you say, there is a lot of work to be done.

I've read a lot in the forum and I think I've also read that one or two people have offered to set up a new forum, but I can't find it anymore.

Installing and setting up a forum should be quite easy, the only question is on which server to do it and who will take over the maintenance in the future. (Unfortunately, I don't have the time (or the knowledge) to take over the maintenance)

I can ssh into the forum as root and upgrade the OS and I do that when I think about it.

I don't understand that.

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Aciera wrote:

I think most of the assumptions made about the devs is not correct. While I have the keys to do upgrades I don't have the knowledge to do that. I also don't have the knowledge to create a new bubble with more recent OS. Out of concerns of not breaking the forum I choose to not try any major upgrade. The devs that set up the forum, wiki and the home page have long since moved on so they can't help.
Thanks for that statement. I was actually not aware of the fact that you have kind of been left with it like that. Reminds me of the situation that the release 'team' actually consists of only a single person who has been trying to resign from that post for a while now.
In that case it would seem the best to just encourage whoever has the motivation to setup a new forum so this one can finally be retired, whether the content can be migrated or not. 

I've never seen offers to migrate the forum only complaints about the editor.


forum.linuxcnc.org/36-using-this-forum-q...ourse?start=0#263279

I read this as an offer (mind you, at that time I was not aware that the forum had been kind of dumped on you):

I would be willing to take on the effort of trialing hosting this forum and migrating the old posts and users, but I would need read-only access to the Kunena DB, attachments, and configuration files. I’ll pay for the VM while I work on this. I figure I run through the import, work out the kinks, let a few people try the new forum, and then we do it all again for real, if we decide we like it.
 

I would be willing to take on the effort of trialing hosting this forum and migrating the old posts and users, but I would need read-only access to the Kunena DB, attachments, and configuration files.

And here is another problem, I've never found the database or any attachments in the Kunena interface. I have a few web sites and the database is only in the hosting interface.

I admit I don't read all the posts because I just don't have the time.

JT

Muecke wrote:

Thanks to @JT! I didn't realise it was all down to one person!
I only have a small website without a forum and that's a lot of work. Thank you for doing all this and keeping it running.

Just installing and setting it up is not enough, as you say, there is a lot of work to be done.

I've read a lot in the forum and I think I've also read that one or two people have offered to set up a new forum, but I can't find it anymore.

Installing and setting up a forum should be quite easy, the only question is on which server to do it and who will take over the maintenance in the future. (Unfortunately, I don't have the time (or the knowledge) to take over the maintenance)

I can ssh into the forum as root and upgrade the OS and I do that when I think about it.
I don't understand that.

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To update the Ubuntu OS which the forum is using I have to ssh into the remote as root and do the same things you would do on a local pc like apt update, apt dist-upgrade, apt autoremove, apt clean then reboot

JT

@JT, ah I see, the forum and the website are on an "own" server not with a hosting company.
My website is at Strato.de, they offer me a ready-made, up-to-date server on which I can install my website (Joomla).
So it's not just about the website and the forum, but about the complete server itself.

Where is this server located? In a company? University, at someone's home?

I can just see how big it is. ...

@ Aciera . Yes, I have read that. Thank you.
 

Muecke wrote:

@JT, ah I see, the forum and the website are on an "own" server not with a hosting company.
My website is at Strato.de, they offer me a ready-made, up-to-date server on which I can install my website (Joomla).
So it's not just about the website and the forum, but about the complete server itself.

Where is this server located? In a company? University, at someone's home?

I can just see how big it is. ...

@ Aciera. Yes, I have read that. Thank you.
 
 

The forum is on Digital Ocean.

JT

And here is another problem, I've never found the database or any attachments in the Kunena interface. I have a few web sites and the database is only in the hosting interface.

The DB will be hosted in a MySQL database and there will be a configuration file on the root folder that also contains the credentials for the SQL user Joomla uses.
The DB is usually managed directly if necessary by logging into phMyAdmin.

It sounds like the images and attachnents are stored in the database. SQL has a data type called a BLOB, a Binary Large Object which is designed for this type of thing.