I’m a bit late for my monthly summary of work accomplished. There wasn’t that much of it in July, which follows a trend of generally taking on less of it.
- I was going to upgrade a client from phpBB 3.1.9 to a new Linux instance for better performance. The client had some technical skills and did the upgrade himself. I double checked him. The only thing missing was the Board Announcements extension. Client asked for suggestions and I suggested the Cleantalk extension and service be installed to be proactive against spam. Installed a recently fixed version of extension that addressed a bug I found.
- Troubleshooting emailing issues for a client. Looks like it was caused by Malwarebytes false positive. Some back and forth with the vendor resolved the problem.
- A client has Hostpapa complaining his site is using too many resources. Generally when this happens it’s due to spambots.I installed Cleantalk extenion, but it resulted in me finding another bug in the extension which Cleantalk fixed in a few days. But it wasn’t merged with the other bug I found a month earlier, so Cleantalk did a merge. I installed a newer version of the Elegance Softblue style. Background image though doesn’t look right. I didn’t complete the job yet and am waiting on some more access information to finish. I’ve noticed lots of similar problems with clients using Hostpapa. I recommend staying away from Hostpapa. It appears their shared hosting provides insufficient resources for all but the most trivial sites.
- Fixed problems. I tried to get remote access but couldn’t get it. So we eventually used Google Meet to share screens and I walked him through a solution. When we purged the cache manually his board came up. Changed config_value column size to 510 (probably not necessary). Installed the newest version of Cleantalk that fixed latest and previous bugs I found.
