Colt Case Ingersoll Garden Tractors

Hi all,
This morning I got the invoice for the next three months of hosting from the website hosting company, which just reminded me how fast time passes. It's hard to believe that almost three months passed. I am glad we are where we are, eventhough it feels like a town with 10 residents

As I said before, this site is here to stay. Thank you all for being active and keeping the site alive!

All sights take time to grow .
Dave

So some russian/ukrainian hacker has been continously creating fake accounts. I keep banning IPs and they come in through another one. Quite annoying.

Eugen wrote: ↑Mon Jul 05, 2021 10:36 am So some russian/ukrainian hacker has been continously creating fake accounts. I keep banning IPs and they come in through another one. Quite annoying.

I don't understand what they think they would gain .
Dave

I'm as puzzled as you are

The hosting site has been having problems with the hardware hosting the virtual server we're running the forum on, so there may be again a few interruptions until they sort out the issues.

I took advantage of the downtime yesterday and made some pretty big changes to the site, but it's not really visible. When you get hosting from these companies they typically give you an installation of software which is easily managed through a web interface, but that has the downside that the stupid interface controls the versions of various packages that you may need. So we were running a really old apache web server. I decoupled that yesterday, and now we're using a current version of the web server. Should be more secure, and also easier to maintain the other changes I made.

Created a new name for the manuals section, sort of like a separate website, but it's not really.
https://manuals.ccigt.com

I have done this to improve visibility and also to fix a problem with the google search console. Hopefully this will bring us up on the google search.

Another thing I've done is to add the domain
www.ccigt.com

and make all these domains go by default to a secure https connection, even if you type in http://ccigt.com

Sounds like good stuff!

Bill

Some sort of glitch on the hosting site I guess, I found the site down, the entire virtual machine turned off, so the site was down for a few minutes. Good reminder that I need to setup some sort of automatic notification for this sort of thing.

Two things have happened behind the scenes. 1. Apparently the forum emailing system has malfunctioned for at least two weeks. 2. Some new folks were not able to register because the Q&A anti-spam feature was confusing. The net result was that a couple of these people sent email via the forum system, which didn't make it to me. Luckily the system did log the entries and I was able to find that as I look things over from time to time. After I changed the Q&A anti-spam question to be less confusing (I hope) I proceeded to send an email to the prospective new members apologizing and encouraging them to register again. I'm glad they actually did register and hope they will find the forum both useful and fun! Welcome @DarrenMc and @candp!