Site performance, Server errors, outages and tunings

[PetraJane]

That's it, looking good again! Thanks LikeRa!

[Like Ra]

Will have a look at the list of open MyBB issues and log a new one if it does not exist yet. It's getting "a bit" annoying ...

[Like Ra]

The issue is known and not fixed yet: https://github.com/mybb/mybb/issues/3793

[Like Ra]

Just deleted ~7,000 abandoned and SPAM accounts with zero posts. Half of the user base.
Reasons: security of the site, security of the currently and used-to-be registered users, SPAM protection, performance, availability of user names.
Criteria: zero posts, last active date (5+ years ago), SPAMmy signatures and websites, last active date = registration date.

[Tinker D]

Did that help or just created more space and did it also remove some of that crap programs running in the background?

[Like Ra]

Did that help

It helped to achieve this:

Reasons: security of the site, security of the currently and used-to-be registered users, SPAM protection, performance, availability of user names.

just created more space

Yep, the user database is 50% from what it was before.

that crap programs running in the background?

I hope I removed all crap programs ages ago 😊

[Like Ra]

I haven't touched the blog software - now I can't login... 😲

The Blog is currently off-line. I'm trying to fix the error above - nothing works so far...

There might be some glitches in the forums as well, because I might reload PHP and Apache processes.

[Tinker D]

Yea, I just tried the blog just now. Mobile just give pictures, but switch to desktop and just a blank white screen. Nothing.
Have to the back button just to get out of it.

Bad link transfer? Or maybe server error.

[Like Ra]

WSOP. No idea why. No errors. Nothing. Just White Screen Of Death....

Switched to the default theme, disabled all plugins, replaced all files with the freshly downloaded ones. Time to reboot the server to clean up all caches. Then reset the forum caches manually. I hate this ... Aeady took hours...

[Like Ra]

Server rebooted, the blog is back with the default theme, but I still can't login. I'm out of ideas ...

It's clearly related to the cookies, though.