First, random websites started to take a whole lot to load, including the ones I am working with. Then while playing late I started to notice a lot of issues related to connectivity (and at Destiny, getting a lot of baboon messages).

To the point to make things really annoying.

On one side, I discovered there have been some issues with CloudFlare’s Railgun. While it is intended to make stuff faster for most websites… I noticed it took a while to «fetch stuff» and make others become really slow. Or even show off errors.

Right now, I was welcomed by some random 503 errors of service unavailable, plus others from CloudFlare.

Even Gaming Affected

In the side of the gaming, around at 2-3 am I am starting to get network issues… I know that maybe it’s the time where my ISP might be doing some network maintenance.

But when so, you expect to be a wide issue… not a localized one.

Why do I know this? Because I usually game with a ping going to google to check if my network is working correctly… and in all cases, there has not been anything that been suggesting issues at all.

Well, maybe just that some videos does not load, the baboon issues at Destiny and anything else that comes in between. It is kind of driving me nuts at some point.

But this has not been the first time that something like this has happened to me.

Keep an eye open

Back in the old days of dial-up, yes I am that old already, there was a time with my old ISP that, whenever you connected to it… you had access to a subset of the internet.

Yes, just a subset of it.

It was… fun and painful… for example, at a game named Ragnarok Online, you had a certain chance to lost connection when you moved from one map to another… because well, if the new IP from the server you intended to enter was not into your «sight scope», you were out of luck.

You needed to restart your connection and hope just the best to get the specific subset of the network you wanted to see.

And that included websites and all short of things. Those were really rough times.

CloudFlare’s Railgun still with Issues

Lastly, while I am still writing this up… I am still having some random issues with Railgun. While that for some websites it makes a test in 0.1 secs (wow) in others it takes an amazing of… 6 seconds!

The good thing, it is that it is not blocking websites anymore… but sure thing I need to keep an eye on it too as apparently the service have had all sort of issues the few past days and/or after the maintenance, they had recently.

Maybe they did break something and did not notice it yet? Or maybe they know and it is part of something bigger?

After all, computers are sometimes very special and do not behave as how one expect them to do.

But for now, let’s hope all this goes on and gets fixed soon.

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So far, WordPress has been quite easy to manipulate. Extend and even update without any major issues. Something that I did not experienced with Drupal 6, back in the day.

That is why the more I mess with WordPress, the more I like it.

Keep building with WordPress

Rebuilding has been a pleasure so far. And that I have not yet got into code and extend some functionality myself. This using PHP or JavaScript. But I totally plan to do so.

Maybe this one will fit on what I do need. For now, a simple blogging platform that I can mess with at will. Not caring much of a dissaster happens.

But one thing is true, I need to wipe out properly some old installations and domains. Or probably give them a proper set up for its own.

One of the things that I have seen is that you can do Multisite installs. And that really sounds amazing. I had something like that when I was on Drupal.

But on Drupal it was like an administration nightmare. I hope it is much more easy with this CMS. With what I have been quite happy, and been seeing that some rumors I did read back in the day where not totally true. At least for now.

I mean, back in the day, I did not went the WordPress route because it was regarded as heavy and bloated. Maybe that was right back in 2010 or earlier, when I got this space.

But for today standards, almost any hosting space can deal with its needs quite easily. Despite that, there is a lot of work to do. A lot of optimizations that need to be done.

So, its time to move on.

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Back at the day when I was much more active web-wisely, having SSL or HTTPs was… painful at best, if not really expensive.

Today, while I was lurking and figuring out how to implement a nice online poll for something that is going on… I stumbled upon that.

Making a really long history short, I basically was messing up with a service called » Let’s Encrypt™» that comes embedded with cPanel. It was interesting that I could now offer secure content quite easily and without having to spend a bunch of extra bucks… what is good.

Of course, this only means that the communications between this server and you are secure… but is a nice step forward. Eventually, maybe I’ll have my hands over a private key or something, but that is a tale for another day.

Sadly for me, not all was that easy to set up in what seemed easy: Just change http to https.

Given the setup I have set here (Internet -> Cloudflare -> Private Server), WordPress started to fall into an «infinite redirection loop», and I pretty much clueless about it.

If I visited the website, without changing WP to use https instead of http, I saw half the stuff… but if I told WP to use https… it did fall into an infinite loop.

Of course, I was looking into websites like this one for answers… somewhere «promising», but at the end, only one thing or another worked out.

I was almost to give up when I finally found some light at the official WP codex, and I was surprised how much little I needed to add to fix such thing.

For the looks of it… apparently, my WP install got confused when I changed the settings and saw CloudFlare and kept trying to fix the issue, just making it worst…

But now things are much better, and kind of force SSL one way or another. What I have implemented in the other project I was messing with… and as long I do not have some kind of weird «warning», I will be a happy skonk (yeah, guess that one why).

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