West Coast Connection Forum
DUBCC - Tha Connection => West Coast Classics => Topic started by: Don Seer on February 19, 2006, 12:43:15 PM
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yeah so i moved the site to a new server.. i got fed up with the downtimes and lack of support..
this should I hope be a very good situation.. but only time will tell whether this suits us or not..
please bear with me.. i'm aware of all the messing around.. (fingers crossed)
also yes, the big 'raptalk' banner which was across the top of the forum is now gone since they no longer host us. the hosting is now back to coming out my own pocket.
when we first went live on this new host there was an initial slowness which has hopefully been fixed. (i changed an option to do with the way the forum connects to the database and it suddenly jumped into life and has been fine for an hour since).
'Seer
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do u still do the paypal donate thing?
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yeah its in the randomiser up top right..
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jome just found a problem with posts that if they contained certain words it would show "forbidden" when posting or previewing. have just fixed that.
i'm about to see if the spellcheck works on this new server since it didnt on the last one (but did on the one befor if ya'll remember)
update..... it doesnt.. but i should be able to install out now i've got a server ;)
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Extremely slow tonight esp. when trying to post replies. 9pm est.
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seems fine for me (8pm Pacific)
Good to see the banner gone too!
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ok i did something this morning that made it go slow.. (it was meant to speed it up. lol)...
i also locked the forum out, restarted the server (never been able to do that before!!) and after undoing the 'speedup' thing that didnt work I did a repair and then an optimise on the database... its running fine again right now.
if its slow again see if you can see if something sticks out.. like there are a lot of people online or if you can see people doing searches or something...
edit : one and a half hours since i made this post and everythings been running really well.
(have also turned off 'lookups' as thats meant to speed things up a lot..)
also.. there is a new version of the forum coming soon (ETA is a few weeks i believe) that along with lots of cool features will have 2 changes meant to help with large forums.. 1 speeds up searches and stops them slowing down the forum and the other speeds up general usage.
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definitely seems to be related to searches.. IMO
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last night apart from between 8pm/9pm UK time i was very impressed that when people weren't searching it didnt kill the forum with 110+ people on.. which bodes well for higher loads.
i've managed to find a little advice on speeding things up.. since i now for the frsrt time ever in the history of dubcc have full 100% control over the server i should be able to optimize this really well.
the new version of the forum software thats coming within the next month has changed the search feature to speed it up and handle these kind of issues.
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i changed something earlier in the server configuration that should help speed things up (seems to do the trick so far) and have sought advice from the forum makers using the support i pay them for. it should make things even better. :)
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also yes, the big 'raptalk' banner which was across the top of the forum is now gone since they no longer host us. the hosting is now back to coming out my own pocket.
So is it costing you a grip of money?
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Excellent!!
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also yes, the big 'raptalk' banner which was across the top of the forum is now gone since they no longer host us. the hosting is now back to coming out my own pocket.
So is it costing you a grip of money?
my server costs $44.50 a month
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also yes, the big 'raptalk' banner which was across the top of the forum is now gone since they no longer host us. the hosting is now back to coming out my own pocket.
So is it costing you a grip of money?
my server costs $44.50 a month
and you soley pay that out of your own back pocket?
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well out of my paypal but yeah.. this last year was the only year in the 5 that dubcc has been running where i havent paid (the raptalk banner provided the hosting.. but as we know.. there were problems..)
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you guys think thats alot? you dont even wanna know what i have and am paying out for dubcnn to exist!! lol :'(
:)
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yeah for real.. dubcnn is :O and dubcnm.. well thats through raptalk too (which is why dubcnn got a banner).. but thats got problems...
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Well Seer, would I be a fool in assuming you are actually making money in some way, shape, or form from these websites? At least some to break even?
yeah for real.. dubcnn is :O and dubcnm.. well thats through raptalk too (which is why dubcnn got a banner).. but thats got problems...
You gonna change servers for that too?
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nah thats not a foolish thing.. but its not guaranteed. and has only been the last few months. no idea how long it will last. i still paid roughly that amount for four years before the raptalk deal came up.. (thx to big june @ raptalk for that).. so in a way its still a long way from even. any extra money would go towards a new layout being commissioned. on top of hosting bills i also paid for this layout to be custom designed and i also pay a subscription for 'premium' level support for the forum.
and yeah.. dubcnn/dubcnm have been more problematic than the forum of late (which has been a nightmare in the past) and getting worse... rud's looking into things..
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Damn, so much trouble just to keep this boat afloat.
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word.. if dubcc/dubcnn/dubcnm were on the same server imagine how much trouble it'd cause when just 1 part causes the others to fail?
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I just made another major change to the server config... (since the support people didnt get back to me)
[01:01] <Don-Seer> ok i just did major config changes to mysql ;o
[01:01] <Don-Seer> lets see how the forum goes
[01:01] <Don-Seer> hehe
[01:02] <Don-Seer> jesus i think its fast as hell :O :O
[01:02] <Jome> Page created in 0.069 seconds with 13 queries.
[01:02] <Jome> jebus!
[01:02] <Jome> that's the main page too
[01:02] <Jome> WCC on acid!
[01:03] <Don-Seer> in 12 hours i'll be able to improve it again..
[01:03] <Jome> holy shit it's fast!
initial indications are good. it may even improve over time as well..
i'll be able to improve it when i wake up tomorrow (its 1am here)
it needs to be run for 12 hours or so for me to have reliable feedback from the thing that tells me how the databse is performing..
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more optimisations made this morning..
new forum logo by adon added :)
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more optimisations made this morning..
new forum logo by adon added :)
That's hot... There goes a prop!
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i have a colo box going up this week sometime (free hosting), if you want to offload the DNS or a backup mail server etc let me know
i start getting twitches when the forum is down
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server's bein slow tonite, idk why but wen i hit the Post button it takes a good minute to go thru
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server's bein slow tonite, idk why but wen i hit the Post button it takes a good minute to go thru
Shit I thought my computer was just running slow.
Yo Seer, how much banknotes does that advertisment at the bottom of the forum get ya?
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all week its been slow as fuck
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The speed seems to fluctuate a lot for me. It's just before 09:00 GMT now, and the page loads vary from 0.6 seconds all the way to 91.909 seconds. All page loads took 15 to 20 queries. There's about 40 people online, 20 members and 20 guests. I didn't see any doing searches when I checked on what they were doing. Posting a message takes a long ass time. Might be that making entries to the MySQL database is hella slow?
Also, you've got buttons at the bottom of each page saying the site uses valid XHTML and CSS, when neither is actually valid. You ought to remove them or fix the markup.
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yeah its all over the place. its only related to some small 'update' queries made when u navigate (last online, hits etc) which doesnt make sense.. the actual reads are blazingly fast.. i dont know why its started being slow writing.. i just ran a checker over the database and it seems to have picked up.. but its not perfect
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i contacted the hosts support a little while ago.. they said they're working on cutting down server load for the node we're on.. and from the figures i can see its working..
its kinda thrown me as every 10 hours or so i was checking the server stats and optimising the databsae buffers/settings (e.g. key_buffer_size etc ) used on my server to speed dubcc up.. just as i thought i had it set all this happened...
i've reset to a 'known good' dubcc configuration until things are stable again.. load times seem to be goin down
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since i've complained they moved our VPS to a new node. seems quicker compared to this time last night. although not amazing..
edit: now i put my last set of figures into the sql configuration its going pretty well :)
11pm my time now, when i get up i'll be able to review the sql stats and tweak the config again for even more speed
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few new smileys added..
:catfight: :sun: :rant: :drool: :stir: :baseballbat: :poke:
:nahnah2: :firedevil:
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props on the new smileys seer :drool:
oh yeah and the sites bein real quick tnite ;)
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I get quick speeds but every now and then they'll be a 10 minute span were it goes real slow.
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i'm still fine tuning the server sql parameters.. but the servers holding up pretty well.. the odd slow spot is most likely due to searches n stuff..
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right... we just got hit by a search engine.. (inktomi...)
234 Guests, 43 Users
and still runnin quick! :)
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a week later.. i've now got most of the important mysql parameters optimised for the best performance.
there are a couple more things i can try in future.. but right now the bottleneck isnt at those points but the main one should be when v1.1 of the forum software is released soon as this is meant to speed up general browsing and also speed up searches. i may have to go through part of the optimisation process i've been doing in the last week again after the upgrade, but in reality it shouldnt need much tweaking now. I've set the parameters up so dubcc can handle a slight increase in load (users online etc) without me having to fiddle :)
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shit i might just paypal you a month“s cost when i get paid in 2 weeks.
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shit i might just paypal you a month“s cost when i get paid in 2 weeks.
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id ask you for mine too but you'd have no wages left...i dont! :'(
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shit i might just paypal you a month“s cost when i get paid in 2 weeks.
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id ask you for mine too but you'd have no wages left...i dont! :'(
it“s that expensive? how much do people actually paypal to y“all every month? it can“t be that much can it?
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it“s that expensive? how much do people actually paypal to y“all every month? it can“t be that much can it?
hell yea, it costs me ALOT of money so yall can have dubcnn :)
that donate button is for the forum, seer set it up, i dont think many people have donated and not much...
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??????????????? 8)
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well i don“t have a Visa or Mastercard and goin to the bank to paypal money seems hella complicated so Seer pm your address or something and i“ll send you some money in the mail.
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Congrats ! we gonna use that Anyway man...every muthaphucka in here knows that Dubcnn is the muthaphuckin shit. Bow Down for these cats ! Without Dubcnn...we've been missed a lotta news, a lotta dope music, a lotta fun.
One Luv
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unstickied :)