reboot.pro the 2024 oct 30 : Does anyone know if the site is under maintenance?

[Noel-Blanc]

Hi, i can't find some news about the site reboot.pro.
If you know some thing about it, please, tell me.

[APT]

Hi Noel
Not sure why it's down, but it surely can't be maintenance, it's been down a long time now - months and months, I remember Homes32 mentioned it a while back

[Noel-Blanc]

@APT happy to read you.
This is not good news for reboot.pro
It was a mine of help.
I don't know if an equivalent site can exist.

[Homes32]

If you know some thing about it, please, tell me.

reboot.pro is built on an extremely old version of version of Invision Power Board that is no longer supported or getting security patches. The version also requires an old version of MySQL that has issues with getting corrupted, which is why the site has been going down so much. It requires manual intervention to go in and repair the database, which the owner hasn't made time to do as he has other interests and is unable and/or unwilling to spend the time and $$$ to upgrade the software or perform a full scale migration to another. erwan was helping out for awhile making repairs for awhile, but apparently that was just a temporary arrangement, or he is no longer helping out, or something more catastrophic happened. The fact that the site times out instead of outright throws a webserver error tells me the webserver is still running and trying to serve the pages, so most likely the current issue is still database corruption.

It has been suggested a few times (by yours truly and others) that it might be best to create a static archive of the forum and start it fresh on modern software (phpBB or myBB for example). Another idea if a static archive (basically creating .html copies of all the dynamic pages) was troublesome was to lock the forum to read only and run it in a container that would reset to a base image. This would leave it online as an archive, but work around the SQL corruption issues by resetting to a known good state at regular intervals. It would also allow the archived copy of the old 911cdfourm to live on in the same manner.

so that's the why. I don't know the when if ever it will be repaired and come back online. It would be a huge loss for all those years of knowledge to disappear into the void. I haven't given up hope yet.

regards,
Homes32

[APT]

@Homes32

Thanks for the update