Site down due to database problems.
We are working on it. Sorry for the inconvenience.
What needs to happen
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Need to repair the existing database — have done this by downloading and running a repair process on my laptop.
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Need to upgrade to the latest version (ver 5) of vBulletin, which costs north of $200.
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We need to upgrade because the current version works on older PHP versions only — and hosting providers have moved to newer PHP.
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The current vBulletin version also requires creating temporary aggregate tables in MySQL, then deleting them as needed. When we moved from a dedicated server to shared hosting, MySQL security policies no longer allowed deletion or dropping of tables. This caused too many tables to build up in memory and persist without ever being dropped. On the dedicated server we never had this problem, because the security policy was just for our site and dropping tables was allowed.
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Need some time to work out everything.
I will get our site up and running for sure. Just need time.