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by JFNG
Sat Jun 12, 2021 8:48 pm
Forum: Rants and Raves
Topic: Independent Lee Valley Access
Replies: 1
Views: 1791

Independent Lee Valley Access

Good Evening! Because Lee Valley is so difficult to access, especially for international athletes, would there be any interest in forming a regular group of athletes to book the venue out privately? The idea is pretty simple, we work out an acceptable number of athletes who can be on the water, with...
by JFNG
Mon Jun 07, 2021 6:35 pm
Forum: Rants and Raves
Topic: Yahoo, aol and Verizon email addresses
Replies: 2
Views: 1910

Re: Yahoo, aol and Verizon email addresses

Have you considered AWS SES? I think for the scale of CanoeSlalomEntries, SES would actually be free.
by JFNG
Wed Apr 07, 2021 10:19 pm
Forum: Rants and Raves
Topic: Advice on replacing grab loops
Replies: 4
Views: 2597

Re: Advice on replacing grab loops

The easy way is to just drill a slightly bigger hole, tie the knot, force it through and then fill said hole with carbon / putty / filler. I have done it this way for years ;)
by JFNG
Sun Jan 17, 2021 6:12 pm
Forum: Rants and Raves
Topic: OnLineEntries ... Going Down
Replies: 10
Views: 4942

Re: OnLineEntries ... Going Down

Do you have query cache enabled? And if so how much volatile object storage are you running to house it? I think I remember the requirements of MYSQL 5.7 being higher than 5.5, however we usually run super high spec systems for SQL, so I have never really researched the minimums much. Have fun chasi...
by JFNG
Thu Jan 14, 2021 11:29 pm
Forum: Rants and Raves
Topic: OnLineEntries ... Going Down
Replies: 10
Views: 4942

Re: OnLineEntries ... Going Down

Are you using AWS EC2? Either way their support is almost non, unless you have a support contract in place. When their US-EAST region had a bad week a few months ago, they told us that it was our clients fault for not 'developing highly available infrastructure across multiple zones', which of cours...
by JFNG
Thu Jan 14, 2021 9:46 pm
Forum: Rants and Raves
Topic: OnLineEntries ... Going Down
Replies: 10
Views: 4942

Re: OnLineEntries ... Going Down

Do you have a staging environment? This would really help you in this situation, as you can prototype changes to the the core infrastructure / codebase without breaking real stuff! You could even switch to failover infrastructure while you complete the work on the core infrastructure, then revert ba...