Board technical update
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Board technical update
This message board is migrating from a datacentre in the USA to one in London over the next few days. Hopefully the move will be seamless and there will be no disruption, but if it goes offline for a while in the next 48 hours or so, this will be the reason.
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Re: Board technical update
Well, they broke it for a while, but it should be fixed again now. Apologies for the outage.
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Re: Board technical update
Just in case you're not aware, the forums were happily announcing the local SQL username on the error page during the downtime which is not exactly ideal from a security viewpoint.
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Re: Board technical update
Plus the passwordTunga wrote:Just in case you're not aware, the forums were happily announcing the local SQL username on the error page during the downtime which is not exactly ideal from a security viewpoint.


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Re: Board technical update
Yes, thanks. Both changed now as a new installation was done.
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Re: Board technical update
I don't believe that was the actual password, it was just an indication that a password was being used. But always better to be safe so good to hear that they've been changedwrinklyhoop wrote:Plus the password

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Re: Board technical update
That's correct. The 'YES' just meant it was password protected.Tunga wrote:I don't believe that was the actual password, it was just an indication that a password was being used. But always better to be safe so good to hear that they've been changedwrinklyhoop wrote:Plus the password.

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Re: Board technical update
That is good to hear.Tunga wrote:Just in case you're not aware, the forums were happily announcing the local SQL username on the error page during the downtime which is not exactly ideal from a security viewpoint.