It's a miracle! Let's hope they get the funding and staffing to ensure this never happens again.

yeah uploads seem to be broken again but downloads still working this time, broke friday night for me and as its a a weekend it will be monday/tuesday before they even look at it.

I've decided to give up for real this time, with no changing my mind (I've promised myself). I've tried to restart crunching, but I have no enthusiasm. The fact that this is the first post in what was once a lively forum in 6 weeks says it all really. Every time I try to restart, something stops me, be it a lack of units, or my device not being included in my personal/team statistics or whatever. Krembil (or rather, the MCM team) are trying their best, but the magic has gone for me. I notice that many of the "old timers" and "big hitters" from Team UK have stopped or given up. I still can't justify the kWh either, given the cost and the state of the planet.

I'll be turning off my stats site permanently at the start of June, but I'll be around in the forum until then. If you're using a Team UK signature block anywhere, I suggest you replace it rather than have a broken link.

Thanks everyone who's still around for the interesting discussions over the years.

Thank you for your nice words.

I built the site in 2015, when I was forced to take some time off work due to a rupture Achilles tendon. I'm a professional software engineer, so it wasn't too hard for me.

The server code is written using the Java language, and has a MariaDB database in which it holds about 30 days of data. It gets the data from the WCG website by connecting to the website with URLs like this:

https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewT...;numRecordsPerPage=100000

I then process the XML using some Java libraries, and store selected information in the database. I then send more requests to the WCG website to drill down on some of the data.

Once the data is in the database, I can do all sorts of things with it just by running SQL queries. Most of the information is generated once a day and stored in memory, so the webpage is quick to respond. However, some queries are run "as required" - for example the member comparator.

The front end webpage is badly written using JavaScript (not my speciality) and uses the Google Charts library to create most of the graphs. The signature graphics are generated by my server every night, again using Java and its graphic libraries.

The website is running on a small Synology NAS located literally behind my sofa. The Java server is running in a tiny virtual machine on the NAS, and the NAS provides a reverse proxy and the "Let's Encrypt" certificate support.

I hope that's interesting. Not sure how much of it non-IT people would understand

Fully understand Dave. From the number of team members not returning results, it is easy to see the huge drop off in the team's numbers. Looking at Boincstats, that shows 35 team members were active in the last month.

With the cost of power these days, I expect that has had a large impact (it's changed my output) but also the swap over to Krembil not going smoothly.

All the best Dave.