Welcome again all people.
For individuals of you who routinely pay a visit to the web site, you could have observed we were being acquiring some “minor” specialized issues in excess of the weekend.
Effectively I am satisfied to say, irrespective of the rumors we are still here and not going any where and almost everything is back on the net.
For very long time period followers and these that are intrigued, coolsmartphone has been about for well around 20 several years. The site has had quite a few iterations more than those people yrs, and a lot of issues have been bolted on, bodged in and extra around that time. As some of you know this was all the work of coolsmartphone founder Leigh, he entirely crafted and managed coolsmartphone himself around the many years, until finally he regrettably handed away in 2021.
I took on this behemoth of web page, with no map or guidance on how Leigh experienced place it all collectively. So about the previous pair of many years, I’ve just sort of maintained the standing quo and saved it ticking about, when silently cursing Leigh for some of his bodges and hacks 😉
Regrettably Saturday morning at all-around 5am British isles time, factors took a change for the even worse and the major coolsmartphone server found somewhere in a Datacentre in Germany, despatched me an email and breathed its very last breath.
This server doesn’t just dish out what you are viewing listed here, it includes several years worthy of of coolsmartphone background. Get in touch with me sentimental, but i didn’t just want to wipe and start out yet again, so I experimented with my most difficult to resurrect what was by now there.
Sadly this was not going to operate out, so I had to transfer all the things I could salvage off the unsuccessful server to my residence storage and servers.
But what about backups you scream, indeed I experienced a complete backup from the preceding 7 days (of the site and all vital parts) but as I have beforehand talked about, this internet site has a few sticking plasters holding it collectively and its age and sheer amount of articles, just restoring the backup was not a easy as it need to have been, not to point out the way the OS experienced been configured. P.S. this website is also large and complicated for most $1 a month web hosting platforms, so it runs on actual physical tin in a correct datacentre.
The time had occur, I experienced to chunk the bullet and rebuild the server from scratch, transfer 100’s of Gigabytes information around, and this time put it all again together in a right vogue that I would be capable to take care of better going forward.
In any case to convey a very long winded story to an conclusion, as I will need some snooze. Almost everything is back again online, having said that some items could however be a tiny janky, so bear with me.
Now that I have comprehensive regulate and I know whats what, I approach to make some favourable modifications to the structure and web page in typical going ahead, with the assist of Garry and Ian who have continued to carry you the written content you arrive listed here for.
Oh did you notice, we have less AD’s, just one stage nearer to Ad free !!
(I might submit about that a different time, but it is something I have been seeking to do for ages and now I can!).
Many thanks for bearing with me!
Ant