We were down from approximately 9:15 AM to 5:00 PM Pacific Time.
This outage was unplanned and not related to the work I’ve been doing to move our hosting.
forum.pianotell.com started having SSL certificate issues this morning.
I hadn't changed anything, but I thought it might be related to my previous CloudFlare changes. I reverted a bunch of things frantically but nothing helped.
I could see the site was operating, the data was fine, it was just not reachable because of a bad certificate.
Turns out it was related to changes on the FreeFlarum side and needed to be addressed on that end. I couldn’t fix this on my own.
I did have brief thoughts of transitioning to the new hosting during the downtime, but I wasn’t properly ready for that and I was hoping we'd be back sooner rather than later. I thought it would be ill-advised to rush down that path without proper validation, so I decided to hold until FreeFlarum could bring us back.
Also, my morning was packed with lessons anyway and I'm well behind on my piano progress... 😃
Sorry all! This was painful.
With the new hosting, I'll have more control over things.