Hi everyone,

The server that hosts the site, which stores the data and has to calculate each page before sending it to you, was no longer large enough to cope with the load peaks. This resulted in noticeable slowness at several periods of the day.

On Tuesday, we had moved to a first server: after two days of configuration, I was rather disappointed with the performance and started looking at what could be done elsewhere.

Since this afternoon, we are hosted on a brand new server, much more powerful. We're back on our previous host (OVH), still hosted in France (in Gravelines, North), both in terms of personal data protection (French and European laws are more protective) and climate (low carbon electricity).

The pages are now as fast as they can be, and the server should be very largely dimensioned for peak hours in the future! It's also powerful enough to be backed up every hour, which limits the risk of loss if I break everything in case of a problem.

This is an opportunity to thank those who participate in the financing and who have largely allowed us to collectively afford this new server!

Thank you for your patience during the double closure of the site and the configuration tests

Don't hesitate if you identify any difficulties

Hi everyone,

The site's engine has been updated, bringing with it many small performance and safety improvements. As usual, do not hesitate to report any problem you may encounter.

A little new feature: you can now search for an exact phrase by putting the words between quotation marks, "like this". This was a point that frustrated me a lot, and I hope it will be useful to you

Zachary

Small correction of a bug in some dropdown menus (especially in the owlery), induced by the recent update!

Hello everyone! The backend of the site has been updated. As usual, don't hesitate to let me know if a bug appears !

The update has caused a small configuration issue that may have caused some of you to have difficulties logging in or posting. I'm really sorry for that!

Normally the problem is fixed. If this is not the case, please feel free to clear your computer's cache and cookies. If this continues, please contact me and send me the details!

The site's search engine has been redesigned to be faster. In particular, your posted messages should be found almost instantly in your message or PR lists, unlike before.

Sorry for the small interruptions during the evening while finishing the settings!

Hello everyone,

After ten days (and countless hours), I have the great pleasure to inform you that the site has been moved to a beautiful new server, located in Germany. In detail:

• the server is significantly faster (pages are generated 30% faster) and above all there should be no more slowdown whatever the traffic; for those who live on another continent, it will now be difficult to do better because the speed of the pages depends on the latency between Europe and your location;
• the site is now alone on its server (no other site or service);
• a backup every quarter of an hour (against every three hours before) in three different places to limit the losses if one day there was a big problem on the server;
• the site is now accessible from IPv6;
• the security is reinforced: installation of a firewall, reinforcement of SSL protocols, security headers, and absence of any other service on the server.

All this probably doesn't interest you much because it's only technical, but it was long and tedious to set up everything: that explains the numerous cuts and bugs that gave me a hard time. I'm very sorry; the goal was to offer you a fast and reliable site, and normally we are not far from it

The next updates will be about the site itself