Website Updates
Hosting Issues
This website is hosted on a shared server with an unknown number of other websites. If any of the websites are getting hacked, scraped, etc., then the whole server can go down. And the database server that provides most of the data can also have its own downtime and upgrades, but usually not as frequent as web server.
Beginning in late March 2025 (#1 in the image below), a series of events led to an abnormal amount of downtime (ranging up to several hours on multiple occasions), delayed updates, loss of functionaltiy, and loss of revenue throughout the month of April.
In early May 2025 (#2 in the image above), the incidents suddenly stopped. A week later I received a lengthy email from my web host acknowledging some of the issues and describing changes that have been made. As of early June 2025, there has been only one outage over five minutes (knock on wood). There are several links/filters that still need to be fixed due to one of the upgrades, but every page will need to be tested and that will take some more time.
So for now, I've avoided a web host move. And it's a good thing since the number of ColdFusion/MySQL database web hosts seems to dwindle each time I search. Not to mention that the costs, especially if I moved to a more stable dedicated/private server, could increase by 400-1500% or even more.
For future reference, you can see if there has been a recurrence of outages on this Site Status page.
Web Design Changes
The switch of pages to the newer web technology and format that was introduced a few years ago is (obviously) still in progress. My goal is to have the most popular pages converted first and the rest as priorities and time permit. Until then you will see a mix of the old and new formats (my apologies in advance).
Please contact me if you run into any issues. Include the device and browser that you are using, and the page where the issue occurred.
Updated Page File Names
Part of this upgrade is a renaming of some of the page file names. This will affect any existing links on Wikipedia, news/blog articles, message boards, etc.
I will create redirects for the most-visited old pages so existing links don't break completely. However, since many of the links include specific variables (e.g. season, team), I may not be able to point to the exact page/view in the new format (Update: One early test of this has been successful).
Browser Compatibility
The new version of the web technology (Bootstrap) is a major upgrade and it does not support any browser prior to the following versions:
- Chrome 60
- Android 6
- Safari 10
- iOS Safari 10
- Microsoft Edge Legacy (including all Internet Explorer versions)
- Firefox 60
Full browser compatibility tables are available here.