Hello everybody,
I wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their continued patronage of WUWT, and to let you know that in the last couples of months the site has been under attack by a variety of forces, which has reduced the viability and visibility of the website. After consulting with technical people @WordPress.com they have graciously offered to help me and we’re in the process of beginning a site migration. It is a daunting task, as there are over 18,500 articles and 2.6 million comments. In addition to that there’s about 13 GB of image files that are indexed to specific articles. At present, WUWT stands at 353 million views.
In the short term this migration may mean some interruptions of service, in the long-term this should ensure that WUWT continues to reach audiences worldwide without interruption or interception by some of the nefarious forces that operate from the shadows trying to reduce the impact this website has. It will also toughen the site against attacks.
Over the next day the process of migration will begin. If I am lucky, there will be very little interruption of service. However as these things go sometimes it’s not always hiccup free, and the chance of the site becoming unreachable for awhile while DNS cache is cleared. However, the technical engineers at WordPress seem to think it will go okay.
Another long-term benefit of this migration to a new server is that it will remove some of the limitations I’ve had by being hosted on WordPress.com. Instead I’m going to be hosted on the same cloud server group that hosts many of the largest news websites on the planet. All of this will still be under the control of the people at WordPress, but the good news is that in the nearly 12 years I’ve been doing this, WordPress as a company has staunchly defended my right to publish articles which they have undoubtedly taken some flak for. There is a back story from 2009 related to Climategate, Al Gore, and Google that I believe I’ve shared in the past to give you an idea of the kinds of things I’m up against.
The other good news is that being on this new server group it will give me freedom to install plug-ins that I could not do before. This will enhance our ability to make conversation and commenting run a little bit smoother, in addition to offering some other features I could not offer before. Guest authorship of articles will also benefit from this change.
Thank you for your patience during this process, and most of all thank you the readers, the moderators,the contributors, and even my detractors for making WUWT the most viewed climate related website on the planet.
I’ll post an update again once the process is complete.
Anthony
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Thank you!!!!
Just to let you know, Google Chrome has been blocking me from accessing your site all day, since early this morning. Claiming “unsafe,” and that your “certificate” is unverified. Wondering if this is because I left a couple of comments over the past several days. Wouldn’t be surprised at all if you (and by extension, your visitors) are under attack by the Usual Suspects. Writing this now in spite of taskbar saying “Not Secure.”
I tried with Opera (nowadays a mere clone of Chrome), and it was the same. Very strange! I could access using IE.
Managed access with Opera [old version] but refused by Safari
Safari says it can not open page becase it can not access a secure connection to server.
Happened to me too.
Safari works OK here in northern NY at 8:55 am, 5/30.
I was unable to access for several hours. You’re up now. What a relief!
The time given for the comments is off. I’m in the same time zone as Anthony, which I’ve always found quite convenient, and the time is now in the future. Will this be corrected?
Also, I noticed we can no longer rate articles with 1-5 stars. Is this permanent?
Appears to be Greenwich time. Probably a default setting.
I’m using Firefox and can’t access some things (links to old pieces). I’m in Australia.
I was unable to connect to WUWT with Firefox due to “unsecure connection” on Monday. I used IE and it was fine.
Goldrider
It was the same on Bing for me.
Site loads on my Pale Moon (Firefox fork) without hiccups, though haven’t tried to access any old content.
Try adjusting/disabling security features on other browsers. I recently had to level down Pale Moon’s blocklist when the devs added NoScript to it. >:( Because it breaks sites, they said. No duh.
yes, it is same with me
S. J. Reddy
I have DuckDuckGo in my extensions…. Runs on Google, but uses DuckDuckGo search Algorithms.
I use DuckDuckGo and I love the way the page appears to ‘burn off’ past searches to leave less traceable history.
As an aside, can anyone give me good articles re the current status of Tha Arctic and the Antarctic, I’ve taken on a fanatical greenie on the Guardian of all places!
My computer tells me Edge is safer than Chrome every few days, HA!
I had that problem frequently when I had McAfee. Changed to defender, and the problem disappeared. The ‘Unsafe” tag seems to be the result of user input. So, folks who don’t like WUWT basically marked it unsafe under different emails until the app (McAfee decided they must be right.
I found lots of conservative websites to be similarly blocked.
Moderator and Anthony FYI;
New posts are correctly accessed, for example:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/05/climate-scientist-air-pollution-cleanup-may-be-major-driver-of-global-warming/#comment-2365792
Recent older posts just access the article, not the post, for example
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/05/25/climate-scientist-air-pollution-cleanup-may-be-major-driver-of-global-warming/comment-page-1/#comment-2827937
just accesses the top-of-page of the article, whereas
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/05/climate-scientist-air-pollution-cleanup-may-be-major-driver-of-global-warming/#comment-2363333
now correctly accesses the post.
Not a huge problem, but old references to previous posts will no longer work unless this can be fixed.
Do we know enough about clouds to risk this.
🤣✌
Good One!
Real clouds have an albedo effect; AGW blog clouds have an ‘algorebo’ effect.
Best of luck, Anthony. Please don’t end up like order-order.com – which has been pretty much silenced after 20 years.
One of our IT guys has this cartoon hanging on his office door…
I’ve looked at servers from both sides now.
PC and mainframe
But still somehow
Its DOS attacks I recall
I really don’t know servers at all.
David.
Are you trying to …Cloud…the issue?
ROFL!
Hmmm…. I have a rather old computer, practically an antique. Still runs well, but I will have to take the old thing off the net some day and I know it.
I have never, ever had any trouble finding WUWT, maybe because I type in the entire name of the site instead of just WUWT. Specificity counts in something like this.
I am, after all, still operating on Windows XP and have stubbornly refused to change that because it works fine. But on the other hand, my 2003 machine limited in space on its hard drive, and I will have to get a newer machine with more room and a faster response just to keep up.
I have a blog, but I can’t see anything on it it through WordPress’s changes to their format. I have to go in through a back door to access it. Otherwise, i would not bother with even thinking about a new machine.
I can’t keep up with this stuff any more… and I can remember when surfing the net was such a big deal that you could be up all night on Friday, finding stuff… and now, it’s the biggest waste of time ever unless you are very specific about what you want to find.
Sara, you just earned a virtual thumbs up. All operating systems after XP are glorified code bloat, for the sake of reinventing the wheel and sales revenue per quarter.
The MS interfaces and their funtionality are also much less intuitive or confidence-inspiring now, imho. All hat, no cattle.
MS is still dazzled by the ghost of Steve Jobs and wants more and more to Apple-ify their software, to the detriment of their own brand.
I have Windows 7 on my current system. In the roughly 2 years I’ve used it, I’ve gotten only one BSOD. And that one was on me, from fiddling with some unstable emulation software.
I’m no techie but I’ve been using Ubuntu Linux for years, currently as Lubuntu. Easy to use and customisable. Also free.
Sara, is same here with 2002 Dell Win XP upgraded to sp3. You didn’t say what browser used but I went to Firefox 52.6.0 ESR (Extended Service Release) which is the last upgrade made for XP and available from Firefox. Also upgraded the Dell with a much larger 500 gig IDE drive and then cloned the old drive onto the new one using clone software from internet. Have a very obsolete Sony 20 inch CRT monitor that still works everyday (have tried a couple of LCD’s but they had less small letter/pixel definition, maybe my video driver/don’t know). New IDE drives are still available at Amazon and inexpensive.
I think my last MSN browser upgrade a few years ago was IE 10, not sure, but I got the message ‘can’t go any higher’. Now I get messages from Google that my hardware is too old and I won’t get any more Chrome updates.
Well, next year, after I get new front steps and a new kitchen cabinet and a couple of other things done/fixed first – next year, I will get a newer computer and it had better be as sturdy and reliable as this one has been.
If it ain’t broker, don’t fix it. If it still runs and you can fill the tank, drive it.
I have an old computer. I don’t know how old, but it is beige. Is that old?
Is it a desktop or a laptop? Either way, yes.
Apple Lisa
HotScot,
We can parameterize the clouds and everything will work fine. Trust me!
Clyde Spencer
In other words, every cloud has a silver lining.
Yes, I’ll go with that, even the climate change cloud hanging over us like the sword of Damocles.
Chock full of opportunities.
😎😎👍
Given Google’s global warming search bias that is an amazing accomplishment. Congratulations sir.
Except, virtually every search for things climate, especially topic with religious consensus beliefs, links to undependable consensus sites and climate politics sites overwhelm the response links.
An odd occurrence, given their very low internet views and stats.
Liberal elitist billionaires, apparently, can buy fake popularity for their propaganda sites.
UNEP FI
e-bulletin, Issue 72, June 2009
Topics include: to green the internet with “.eco”
http://www.unepfi.org/fileadmin/publications/ebulletin/unepfi_ebulletin_200906a.html
Good luck!
You do the world a great service and I have learned a great deal. Thankyou very much
Good luck in the conversion!
“Migration to a new Cloud….” – It sounds so diaphanous and airy!
Looking forward to the new capabilities and Thanks (!) for doing what you do soooo well, Anthony!
A suggestion is to allow searching of previous articles when you are on the site. As it stands now one has to search previous articles by Google
There’s a search box just for that in the right sidebar.
It does not search in comments.
Curious George.
My last two posts have gone AWOL in the move, so hopefully third time lucky:-
1. Start with your favourite search engine e.g.
http://www.duckduckgo.com
2. Then type into the Search Engine any keyword string that you want to find in WUWT by using the site: command
Your keyword search request should look like this:-
Curious George site:www.wattsupwiththat.com
3. This will get you to a list of threads that contain your keywords.
4. Chose and open the thread you want.
5. Use the Find command (Control F) to find your keywords within the comments list of the open thread.
Philip, thanks. I know how to search WUWT comments in Google, but not how to do it with the WUWT search. I hope Anthony might change it.
I think it’s a positive … we all know that CAGW proponents do not handle clouds well …
Anthony ==> Best of Luck with this. See ya on the other side. Kip
Thanks for the update Anthony, and good luck for a smooth transition. WUWT helps maintain our sanity in this corner of Africa where infectious Carbonophobia, spreading rapidly and profitably among the ruling class, is resulting in the proliferation of ghastly industrial wind parks that are blighting some of our most beautiful and scenic landscapes, as well as killing a wide variety of birds, including endangered and migratory species. We are heading down the same path as South Australia, and nobody, except a few perceptive commentators, seem to be concerned in any way. The wind industry, government ministers, and media morons clap their hands and ululate with joy at the billions of dollars of investment flowing into intermittent wind generation plants. They either do not know, or chose not to share the ugly secret that probably 65% of this investment goes straight to Germany, or Denmark, or somewhere else, to pay for the machinery and the towers. The Germans and the Danes have also been very, very helpful to South Africa in funding research and propaganda to promote the wonders of wind energy. They are laughing all the way to the bank.
Exactly.
New Cloud…Hop aboard your Golden Nimbus and Fly away. A few interruptions can be handled if need be.
Hopefully the transformation goes smoothly.
Hello Anthony – I will be there come rain or come shine…
Who are the ”nefarious forces’ you refer to?
My guess is the Deep State and B Husssein’s shadow government.
Sounds well planned. Good that WordPress is so supportive. Gluck auf!
Good luck with the changeover.
Sound great. Best wishes on the change over. This is a great site.
William
Anthony, good luck with the transition, and thank you for making WUWT available to us all!
Time to break out the Joni Mitchell: I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down and still somehow
It’s cloud’s illusions I recall
I really don’t know clouds at all…
WOOT!!!!!!
Sounds like a good move to me, Anthony.
Will be checking back on my usual daily basis.
Cloud is fine, but more costly than VPS with Solid State HDs.
https://www.ramnode.com/vps.php
so,…migrating from linux sercer(s) on amazon aws to your own aws instance.
hope you have good server admin
I haven’t noticed any problems reaching this site and I often look at it several times per day. I have seen some of my comments disappear though, and that’s frustrating.
How many “Hiroshima bombs” will the cloud consume?