Site performance, Server errors, outages and tunings

I don't know if it's only me, but I'm experiencing some strange behaviour from 'Alerts'

I seem to randomly receive alerts  for things that are months or even years old - see below:

    - this one popped up and linked through to a post from 2018!!!!!

It's not the first time this has happened (though it is a bit extreme in the time it may have been delayed  😁 ), nor is it a real problem that 'needs to be fixed' - but I am curious if others are experiencing the same. 

MJ

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I don't know if it's only me, but I'm experiencing some strange behaviour from 'Alerts'

Yep, same. Might be something about moves between threads/forums (I frequently move posts and threads to keep the structure and "ontopicness"), timeouts/expiry dates, synchronization.

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Linode added the global firewall feature, what means the OS firewall can be disabled to free up resources. Let me know if anything is broken 😇

(I hope they will add IPS/IDS as well).

Solved! It was BitLocker! Thanks much @BoundWolf!

A few more observations on this:

• I have to temporarily disable Bitlocker to login, but once in, I can turn it back on and still browse normally.
  
• I have to disable to view the Alerts popup.
  
• I have to disable to post anything.  If I don't, I get the following error when I hit Preview, Post, or Save.
  

  There has been an error due to your post data being empty.

• I tried whitelisting likera.com, but that didn't change anything.
  

I haven't been able to find any logs that show any blocking happening whatsoever.  Based on all this, I'm wondering if it might be BL blocking outgoing POST messages to certain domains.

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I'm wondering if it might be BL blocking outgoing POST messages to certain domains.

Then whitelisting should help, but

I tried whitelisting likera.com, but that didn't change anything.

then I think it's something related to cookies, and common to all domains, most likely a bug. A good test would be a different MyB forum. For example, MyBB test subforum: https://community.mybb.com/forum-13.html. MyBB must not be blocked.

Does BitLocker have a support forum/line?

Hmmmm....

Once again I think I've forgotten how to use some of the basics - trying to be clever with the 'Spoiler' function (aka NSFW) 

I get this      but no matter what I try and do next, nothing seems to work.

Obviously it's a PICNIC situation, but I'm sure I used to be able to do this thing quite easily

Help!

MJ

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trying to be clever with the 'Spoiler' function (aka NSFW) 

Just click the text mode (the right most button) and use the spoiler tags:

Code:

[spoiler]
. . .
[/spoiler]

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Another attempt to upgrade Apache (along with PHP, SSL, kernel and some other apps).

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Another attempt to upgrade Apache

It hung after 40 minutes. 3 times longer, than before. This time I restarted PHP instead of Apache - also helped. Puzzled beyond limits... Keep testing.

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Still no go... back to 2.4.46...