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Excellent question in these days of "we picked our infrastructure because its cheap and we don't need to support it". Our server hardware, in Canada, in our rack (colocated), encrypted down to the disk. The large provider is the internet company we chose to service our server based on their...

ALL; Thanks for hanging in with us over the last few weeks of poking and prodding. ACTION We are moving the site to a new server overnight (0100 EST - NOV 23). There is no expected impact to services or downtime. We are moving the site to a new virtual system on a large provider. Many server...

We are finalizing some tuning before moving the website tonight.

Annnnnd M1917 wins the "Holding Out Against All Hope" Award!

All; The second largest request after allowing image posting was privacy. As a result we have made most of the content registered user only access with a few exceptions. Guest access is still enabled for: GOC Site Rules and Policy Newbie FAQs Dealer Network and all sub forums Manufacturers...

Please bare with us. We have enabled and tested. Please try for yourselves and post here if you have any issues. All the original file type and size restrictions apply.

On deck. We just have to navigate managing security restrictions without making the site vulnerable. Can you go deeper on this one please? Will be better with the next server move. T

Hey there Both. - We hadn't framed that yet, but both sound reasonable. We have to start somewhere. They will start with broad strokes and be narrowed down as time moves on. Happy medium. We are restricting our scope at this time to making this older version stable and safe. Anything else is...

Hello everyone; We (Telos Alpha) have been working in the background to get a temperature of the site from a technology perspective. The overall consensus is that the next generation of vBulletin is "buggy and risky". With that in mind we will be staying on this version of vBulletin for the...

GOC'ers We discovered a large botnet attack coming from Singapore was the cause of the slowness over the last 7 days. We have now identified that attack vector and have put rules in place in several layers to block that entire subnet an have generally tightened up perimeter security. You...

When people stop complaining they hate change, we will change. Every time we discuss upgrades or improvements that require some modicum of change for the community, people start whining. Improvement means features change, some features go away. Change is pain. I am not the guy who decides if...

4 actually :D

CHANGE IS LIFE!

vBulletin v4 handles that all on its own.

GOLD!

Good thing that's exactly what we are doing. Just wait out.

We bailed a ton of companies in Canada off Shopify after their disastrous policy changes. I haven't seen a shift as much as we have had to open deeper conversations with them to help them understand that firearms companies are actually very LOW risk. They are vetted at every government level and...

try https://telosalpha.com instead :D

I'm not the new owner - (new intro that is actually public below) I am the new IT/Admin. I'm here to break things in new and interesting ways. Seriously though, I'm just the guy who is going to work with the server to keep the lights on...

https://www.gunownersofcanada.ca/showthread.php/61932-The-Future-of-GOC-amp-Introductions?p=830875#post830875