As copied directly from the discord server having recieved the suggestion to post here;
"I don't suppose anyone else noticed that weird thing happen to britfa.gs around 17:00 today? I was occupying myself in the BBW thread when all the image links broke and the site was apparently blacklisted by Firefox for a 'potential security risk'. Resetting router and PC multiple times did nothing, only managed to regain a connection up to an hour later"
My connection has been on and off more than usual today and I'm begining to doubt which end the problem may have occured, but I was able to connect to other sites while britfa.gs was apparently effected.
Pictured is the generic warning message recieved from Firefox.
Do you have anything unusual in the server records? Specifically between 16:50 to 18:20.
I have no involvement in the running of this site, so by all means ignore me, but that error message means the website's SSL certificate (green padlock in the URL bar) expired. Looking on an SSL checker website, the site's current SSL is a Let's Encrypt one which expires in three months, suggesting it has just been renewed.
So either it was meant to auto-renew and it didn't, or someone had to manually renew it and they forgot. It's nothing to do with your connection, although you can change the URL from https:// to http:// and then you should be able to come here as normal.
>>15915 This is pretty much the response I got last time I posted such a screenshot. Thanks for taking the time to explain, and offer a way I can check for myself in the future.
I guess it freaked me out to see the certificate renewal happen in real time, especially with the war, hacks and >>/news/37479 going on. best renew that tinfoil under my cap huh.
I don't know if it's ever been auto-renewed. When it was first rolled out, the site breaking every 3 months became a running joke.
Having said that, I recently stumbled upon a site with an early Let's Encrypt certificate installed several years ago which looks like it was never renewed.
>>15914 That was just the renewal script breaking as per usual.
So no, don't panic, it was me - and you might see things move change as I have my once-every-few-years time off work between jobs and fix things around the house/shed.
I've been working over the past month to move the server from its old place in Dublin to a new place in London AWS, on a new server too. Testing got a bit expensive, picture related - will complete that this week.
>>15920 Does this website really cost around £100/month to run? My work could provide you a server to run it for less than that. You're being robbed. I do pretty good customer service for them too. You should look us up. I'm at home now, but I post here from my work as well, and if you see an IP address that starts with 78 from a company beginning with T, you could get some outstanding cloud hosting and we'd never even need to speak to each other. It's all active-active, dual-site, resilience, blah, and we'd charge you based on the resources you'd use but I'm convinced you'd pay less than what you pay now.
Or you can tell me to go fuck myself, and make a note that both IP addresses are me, so that if I get banned from one, you can ban the other one too and really punish me properly.
