MG TD Replica Car Club | Stephen Houser | Activity https://tdreplica.com/members/stephenhouser/activity/ Activity feed for Stephen Houser. Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:58:03 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 4a2a4c67190582aa0396e679dccf8d3f Stephen Houser replied to the topic Site is super slow... in the forum Site https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/site-is-super-slow/#post-309492 Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:11:35 -0400 So it’s highly likely that all the crawler bots and AI information-gathering is what’s slowing our site down. At least according to our provider.

They suggest a 3rd-party “front end” (cloudflare) to put in front of our site to alleviate the problem. It’s somewhat a tricky change and will likely take the site down for a few hours while things…[Read more]

]]> b6b44f04b2031f3068d4ea9ba81f9f9b Stephen Houser replied to the topic Site is super slow... in the forum Site https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/site-is-super-slow/#post-309490 Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:34:57 -0400 Upgraded underlying PHP version to latest… seeing if that helps. Provider was going to do it automatically in a few days anyhow. Figured I’d do it in a controlled manner instead.

]]> 317666a2dd85d8a64d3122b5b086f33c Stephen Houser replied to the topic Donations Needed in the forum Site Input and Issues https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/donations-needed/#post-309489 Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:18:25 -0400 If it helps your thoughts, we’re on the “cheap” plan from our provider and that’s what they are claiming the slowness is from. Donations can help us look at the next level up and perhaps better site performance.

Stephen

]]> 105ff58a6febf431a79588ebfd935cd5 Stephen Houser replied to the topic Site is super slow... in the forum Site https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/site-is-super-slow/#post-309485 Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:32:53 -0500 Seems to be a bit better today. Provider has not really given any good answers. Pretty sure I’m just talking with an AI bot 🙁

]]> b1bc2aff1d512041f89d0320b78de6bf Stephen Houser started the topic Site is super slow... in the forum Site https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/site-is-super-slow/ Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:01:02 -0500 Site is running super slow. Have an email out to our provider to look into it.

-Stephen

]]> 1837409ee25d5ebd843b98b76a81cb26 Stephen Houser started the topic Site is slow, being hammerd by SPAM in the forum Site https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/site-is-slow-being-hammerd-by-spam/ Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:50:21 -0500 Yup. The site is running slow.

We are being hammered by SPAMmers trying to gain access. Looking at options and hoping it will slow down. There are no signs of anyone getting in, we are as up-to-date with patches and software as possible.

Stephen

]]> d395b2e70763722b0889a70eb9854739 Stephen Houser replied to the topic Upgraded Security and Blocked Countries in the forum Site https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/upgraded-security-and-blocked-countries/#post-309403 Wed, 06 Aug 2025 17:09:42 -0400 I’ve gone and blocked more countries as the junk keeps coming in.

If you are an actual person and seeing that you are blocked, please just drop us an email at the admin account, and we will unblock your location. I’m going to leave it to you to search for the admin email on the site as “proof” you are a person.

Stephen

]]> e399d96e9fa7e3db93b287c05ae92257 Stephen Houser started the topic Upgraded Security and Blocked Countries in the forum Site https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/upgraded-security-and-blocked-countries/ Tue, 29 Jul 2025 12:05:28 -0400
I gave in and paid for us to get “upgraded” security with our wordfence plugin. The number of crummy logins today finally got to me. There’s usually a handfull each day where nefairous actors try to log in to non-existant accounts and exploit the system. This morning there were ~40. Hopefully this upgrade will slow that down a bit.
I’ve also…

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]]> 1ec923e048e1159936e82cb71f78e59b Stephen Houser replied to the topic Pagoda Hillclimb 2025 in the forum General Discussion https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/pagoda-hillclimb-2025/#post-309374 Tue, 24 Jun 2025 19:14:42 -0400 Too dang hot here now for a drive. Setting aside the fact my carburetor is poorly adjusted. Looks like you had a good hill climb!

]]> cba9649441a218b104d58f8a30cd946c Stephen Houser started the topic Emergency Server Maintenance (5/20/2025) in the forum Site https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/emergency-server-maintenance-5-20-2025/ Tue, 13 May 2025 23:56:45 -0400 From our hosting provider:

We will be restarting your shared hosting server as part of an emergency maintenance in order to perform a BIOS update that improves overall system performance and security. This is preventative maintenance. Please note that this will cause temporary disruptions to any sites you have hosted on the above server.

The…

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]]> 79ae8bbc66ed1b41eeec661b65f8cbf6 Stephen Houser replied to the topic Sway Bars in the forum Chevy/Ford Kits https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/sway-bars-2/#post-309280 Thu, 06 Mar 2025 23:44:06 -0500 Thanks.

No I can at least focus in on one account.

]]> ba4e090c21d04189557e5d2250eb4324 Stephen Houser replied to the topic Sway Bars in the forum Chevy/Ford Kits https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/sway-bars-2/#post-309274 Tue, 04 Mar 2025 14:59:25 -0500 Can someone else try and post a new picture? Still trying to figure if this is something with Bill’s account or site-wide. Not seeing any error messages about it what-so-ever.

]]> a7ab1f42f4e296c8801f91e3d8a709e7 Stephen Houser replied to the topic Sway Bars in the forum Chevy/Ford Kits https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/sway-bars-2/#post-309271 Tue, 25 Feb 2025 20:39:18 -0500 Testing @billnparts image

]]> 87a5a5c6056f628b8c1c1c3193fc9dd3 Stephen Houser started the topic A few updates while troubleshooting today in the forum Site Input and Issues https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/a-few-updates-while-troubleshooting-today/ Tue, 11 Feb 2025 21:22:08 -0500 Made a few updates today while looking at @billnparts problem with image uploading. Please do let me know if you see any problems or broken things. …well other than the photo thing, let me know if that’s working for you 🙂

Stephen

]]> 399b80569470bff69ab9482a5aabd38f Stephen Houser replied to the topic Sway Bars in the forum Chevy/Ford Kits https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/sway-bars-2/#post-309265 Tue, 11 Feb 2025 20:38:22 -0500 A very old photo to test with.

Old Photo

]]> 5293fada16d4d6f879e183bbd542b218 Stephen Houser added a Photo https://tdreplica.com/activity/p/42515/ Tue, 11 Feb 2025 20:37:12 -0500 ]]> 0 bba3b858c10c28e5f1181f2f527bc99d Stephen Houser replied to the topic Sway Bars in the forum Chevy/Ford Kits https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/sway-bars-2/#post-309263 Tue, 11 Feb 2025 20:36:13 -0500 As in how to share the Facebook link? Not sure.

Will look into photo posting problem though. Thanks for reporting it.

]]> 5720a2f3d1a01c452319dfffefa2f1fe Stephen Houser replied to the topic Nov 12, 2024: More back-end updates... in the forum Site Input and Issues https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/more-back-end-updates/#post-309216 Thu, 21 Nov 2024 15:27:23 -0500 All seems to have gone well. Closing this topic.

]]> ec5a103aea2674b507a471baa458ed1a Stephen Houser replied to the topic Lindon Roadster parts? in the forum General Discussion https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/lindon-roadster-parts/#post-309203 Fri, 15 Nov 2024 16:26:49 -0500 I have a 1982 London Roadster. The top got quite beat up by southern Florida sun and salt-water. I asked around at a few boat shops (coastal Maine), but none would take on the job. That was about 20 years ago so my memory is a bit faded as to the reasons they gave.

I ended up making a new one myself. I ruined a sewing machine and what seemed like…[Read more]

]]> 0f95b2d0de874aeb4d2f0da5af868256 Stephen Houser started the topic Nov 12, 2024: More back-end updates... in the forum Site Input and Issues https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/more-back-end-updates/ Sun, 10 Nov 2024 15:31:28 -0500 On Nov 12th, more back-end updates.

As is the world of software, there are always more updates on the way. I expect there to be minimal downtime.

Stephen

]]> fd44f840328f95836ea917cd805665ab Stephen Houser replied to the topic Some more back-end updates on the way (Aug 14, 2024) in the forum Site Input and Issues https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/some-more-back-end-updates-on-the-way/#post-309011 Thu, 15 Aug 2024 14:27:24 -0400 Appears to have gone well. Resume driving folks!

]]> 3baabc7921f6f54a148e12cf4c6a56c2 Stephen Houser started the topic A few more restrictive site settings in the forum Site Input and Issues https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/a-few-more-restrictive-site-settings/ Mon, 12 Aug 2024 13:43:59 -0400 After getting a warning about repeated failed login attempts from Vietnam as a site administrator I have made the settings a little more strict. I have set the site to lock accounts after 10 failed password attempts in an hour (same for password reset). The failed account will be locked out for 4 hours.

Frankly, I’ve not seen any legitimate users…[Read more]

]]> 2c0caacaf38206288d80ec5510f2fd58 Stephen Houser replied to the topic Some more back-end updates on the way (Aug 14, 2024) in the forum Site Input and Issues https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/some-more-back-end-updates-on-the-way/#post-308985 Thu, 08 Aug 2024 16:03:27 -0400 Updating this thread rather than creating a new one. There are more updates on the way. This time to the underlying operating system. Should not be a big deal.

On August 14, 2024, between 3:00 am and 4:00 am PST, we will be upgrading the operating system on your shared server from Ubuntu Focal 20.04 to Ubuntu Jammy Jellyfish 22.04. During the…

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]]> c7152f1fac5afe8e3dd535156dd6200e Stephen Houser replied to the topic Some more back-end updates on the way (Aug 14, 2024) in the forum Site Input and Issues https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/some-more-back-end-updates-on-the-way/#post-308973 Mon, 29 Jul 2024 12:58:31 -0400 Looks like all went well. Nothing to report. Back to driving!

]]> 2bc4966fed39952a89effe9d60fff0fd Stephen Houser started the topic Some more back-end updates on the way (Aug 14, 2024) in the forum Site Input and Issues https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/some-more-back-end-updates-on-the-way/ Thu, 11 Jul 2024 20:37:06 -0400 Nothing special, just some updates to Wordpress to the next minor version.
I don’t expect any driving interruption!

]]> 151af88cbdd96391648f7a07b7a03d10 Stephen Houser started the topic A few site updates today in the forum Site Input and Issues https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/a-few-site-updates-today/ Tue, 28 May 2024 14:58:30 -0400 Nothing spectacular, looks like they went without a hitch. Let me know here if you see something broken.

Stephen.

]]> 7af0cc07d29fbb6128b344237a7fb261 Stephen Houser replied to the topic Upcoming Maintenance, Thursday, March 21st, 2024 in the forum Site https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/upcoming-maintenance/#post-308795 Sun, 24 Mar 2024 14:15:51 -0400 Looks like it all went well enough. Have not seen any problems the past few days.

Thanks for the vote of confidence Bill! 🙂

Stephen

]]> 01e24ec357ea93b64bd2120659467d39 Stephen Houser started the topic Upcoming Maintenance, Thursday, March 21st, 2024 in the forum Site https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/upcoming-maintenance/ Sat, 16 Mar 2024 14:33:25 -0400 From our hosting provider. I don’t expect this to cause us any problems, but posting here just in case!

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We have great news! As part of our mission to support you with your digital presence, we are always looking to improve your products and provide you with the most advanced and powerful hardware.

On Thursday, March 21st we will be…[Read more]

]]> 06a3ae091816109760d73b49fd56ddfc Stephen Houser replied to the topic Updated site plugins... in the forum Site Input and Issues https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/updated-site-plugins/#post-308760 Sat, 24 Feb 2024 13:58:03 -0500 A few more updates this morning. Nothing special. All looks like it’s working well.

]]> 334b19644086624a12293e017d588cdc Stephen Houser started the topic Updated site plugins... in the forum Site Input and Issues https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/updated-site-plugins/ Thu, 15 Feb 2024 16:39:32 -0500 Nothing to report, just a few updates and checking that things still work.

Stephen

]]> 20dcc515f9967e3d6986eef57517b78c Stephen Houser wrote a new post https://tdreplica.com/?p=308592 Sun, 13 Aug 2023 14:46:59 -0400 The VW Carburetor System Originally written by Rob Kuhn Between 1961 and 1974, VW used a variety of carburetors. They all work on the same general principle. The fuel system […]

]]> f66c16ff8fbb7cd61f23a1ad75aaeeac Stephen Houser replied to the topic Technical Articles missing in the forum General Discussion https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/technical-articles-missing/#post-308591 Sat, 12 Aug 2023 16:21:14 -0400 I fixed the Carburetor Flat Spots one and will work on the remainder as I have time. If there is one in particular you are looking for, I can prioritize it if you let me know.

]]> 0f911efed2967e9d8bc4649ada9df68d Stephen Houser wrote a new post https://tdreplica.com/?p=308583 Sat, 12 Aug 2023 16:12:47 -0400 Carburetor Flat Spots By-pass Orifices The drillings (orifices) in the throttle chamber close to the throttle plate are known as “by-passes”. The purpose of these is to ensure […]

]]> c2e9616c963dfcde539acfe76d0dcf42 Stephen Houser replied to the topic Technical Articles missing in the forum General Discussion https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/technical-articles-missing/#post-308582 Sat, 12 Aug 2023 15:59:12 -0400 Working on it…

]]> 0e1f49d85d1233c45bad82442f5c4645 Stephen Houser started the topic Missing Files in the Library in the forum Site Input and Issues https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/missing-files-in-the-library/ Thu, 10 Aug 2023 15:44:12 -0400 It looks like we are missing a few files/documents from the Library!

I think they have been missing since we switched sites a number of years ago and we never noticed. I’ve got a pretty solid backup from then so will be digging around to get them back on the site as time permits.

Stephen

]]> 991e88f63b51041dd80dd41629884cf9 Stephen Houser replied to the topic Site not working this weekend in the forum Site Input and Issues https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/site-not-working-this-weekend/#post-308513 Mon, 15 May 2023 12:57:29 -0400 Posting an image to test image posting.

]]> 120936c87e89152191493f5b2657aba7 Stephen Houser added a Photo https://tdreplica.com/activity/p/41674/ Mon, 15 May 2023 12:56:49 -0400 ]]> 0 4914dc220690a747bf4b37c32a32eabd Stephen Houser replied to the topic Site not working this weekend in the forum Site Input and Issues https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/site-not-working-this-weekend/#post-308496 Tue, 02 May 2023 00:28:47 -0400 It appears some nefarious actor got into our good site and tried to muck things up. Not entirely sure how just yet, still tracking down a few leads. It looks like they got stuck at some point… about when the site wen’t offline. We are (and were) at the latest versions of everything so I’m looking for (a) something entirely new or (b) someone was…[Read more]

]]> 7b823424554c39c9e5ed4933cdefa1a0 Stephen Houser started the topic Site not working this weekend in the forum Site Input and Issues https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/site-not-working-this-weekend/ Mon, 01 May 2023 12:23:37 -0400 Alas, that’s what happens when you don’t pay attention for a weekend. The site was unavailable since, I suspect April 28 at 10:19 AM. That’s most of what I know at this point, but I will be looking further for possible reasons for the outage.

My main goal this morning was to get things up and running again. Which, if this message gets posted, was…[Read more]

]]> 63e86b106a34e4af694edfdb930b1471 Stephen Houser started the topic The updates keep coming... database update this time. in the forum Site Input and Issues https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/the-updates-keep-coming-database-update-this-time/ Thu, 16 Mar 2023 21:47:14 -0400 I don’t expect any complications, but putting out the warning just in case. The hosting provider is going to be doing an early morning update on our database… details below for the curious.

Hello,

On Thursday, March 16th we will be performing proactive maintenance on your MySQL server from 5:00 AM to 5:45 AM PDT. During this maintenance…[Read more]

]]> bd9f5007e777405a54e7b334742c764d Stephen Houser replied to the topic We have an update in our future. PHP v8 in the forum Site Input and Issues https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/we-have-an-update-in-our-future-php-v8/#post-308376 Thu, 23 Feb 2023 19:19:51 -0500 Looks like the upgrade went without issue!

*Resolved*

]]> fe32973b4c4b8eb2533346563063f40d Stephen Houser started the topic We have an update in our future. PHP v8 in the forum Site Input and Issues https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/we-have-an-update-in-our-future-php-v8/ Wed, 22 Feb 2023 01:49:55 -0500 Currently the site runs on WordPress using the PHP language, version 7. PHP7 is a bit old at this point and all the cool kids are moving to PHP version 8. I say all the cool kids really meaning everyone who runs a reasonably up-to-date webserver is.

So, at some point in the next few days our service provider will be upgrading our back-end…[Read more]

]]> 68aead5942d8ef19a176ba525c8fa0e4 Stephen Houser replied to the topic Missing pages and upgrade soon in the forum Site Input and Issues https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/missing-pages-and-upgrade-soon/#post-308294 Thu, 10 Nov 2022 18:52:42 -0500 Well then. Looks like our hosting provider applied the update yesterday. All looks good. Please let me/us know if there are any problems!

Stephen

]]> 4f6d8e55d4ffb4efbfdbc43507abb085 Stephen Houser started the topic Missing pages and upgrade soon in the forum Site Input and Issues https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/missing-pages-and-upgrade-soon/ Thu, 03 Nov 2022 13:06:27 -0400 We had another relapse where the Library, Gallery, History, and Member pages were reporting as “not found.” After a good night sleep, I remembered we had the same issue back in May. The same one button “fix” did the trick again. Which was in effect resaving Wordpress’ permalink settings.

We are on the brink of an update from WordPress from v6.0.3…[Read more]

]]> b71eaa5cf15a45940e1effc69fad3452 Stephen Houser replied to the topic A brief fix and a WordPress 6.0 upgrade soon. in the forum Site https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/a-brief-fix-and-a-wordpress-6-0-upgrade-soon/#post-308113 Wed, 25 May 2022 21:56:40 -0400 You will also notice the “Store” is gone and replaced by a “Join” link.

We have not had anything to sell in quite some time, so the link was a bit …dated.

Also, to try and manage the spam registrations we have on and off tried different approaches. The current one will allow any current user to “invite” someone. This includes Paul and myself…[Read more]

]]> 7c04aff31957d411189fb00e1c2051c4 Stephen Houser started the topic A brief fix and a WordPress 6.0 upgrade soon. in the forum Site https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/a-brief-fix-and-a-wordpress-6-0-upgrade-soon/ Wed, 25 May 2022 17:37:54 -0400 We had a strange problem recently where the Library, Gallery, History, and Store were not showing properly. Frankly, I’m not entirely sure what went bonkers, but a “reset” of “permalink settings” brought things back to normal. Not suspecting anyone need to know what all that entails, other than, things are working as expected now.

There’s a new…[Read more]

]]> d633f05a1a478473e52f09217b907bfd Stephen Houser replied to the topic Rob's Daytona in the forum Member Photo Galleries https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/robs-daytona/#post-308055 Thu, 21 Apr 2022 18:10:29 -0400 Sorry for the delay, would you believe I didn’t have a usable computer for a week or so at home!

]]> c89d02334b5cfdb368e8c243507f47c2 Stephen Houser replied to the topic Rob's Daytona in the forum Member Photo Galleries https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/robs-daytona/#post-308054 Thu, 21 Apr 2022 18:08:08 -0400 I applied an update to the media manager plugin today. After a recent update to WordPress it was out-of-date. I’m curious if this was causing the “glitch”. Certainly keeping an eye on it though. Please do let me know if you continue to see the problem.

Stephen

]]> a17dc21a463c33b26403d5a506fb8877 Stephen Houser replied to the topic I need a vdo speedometer. in the forum General Discussion https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/i-need-a-vdo-speedometer/#post-307883 Thu, 16 Dec 2021 22:21:59 -0500 I had luck on eBay when I needed one.

]]> 8a73e017f9a73877ace0b8c1b8c88556 Stephen Houser started the topic Daytona MIGI Assembly Manual in the forum Site https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/daytona-migi-assembly-manual-2/ Sat, 02 Oct 2021 16:10:11 -0400 We now have a scanned copy of the Daytona MIGI Assembly manual in the Library section of the site.

Thank you to @denber6300 !

Stephen

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