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DaiBato Veteran user 310 Posts |
I notice that, at night, even though there are usually fewer people browsing, the Magic Café site slows down considerably. Is this due to a preponderance of lurkers? Or does the server need to be bigger?
Dai Bato |
truthteller Inner circle 2584 Posts |
I have noticed this too. Sometimes one cannot access the pages at all as it is moving too slowly.
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Steven Steele Chief of Staff 1868 Posts |
As a staff member, while editing topics (especially doing multiple deletions, etc.) can cause the Café to slow down as it takes quite a bit of database searching. In addition, the Café periodically performs back-ups (at night) and that two will slow it down. Lastly, anytime somebody uses the search engine, that will impact performance too.
For those of you that have been members for quite a while, you may remember the search engine was removed to make improvements for a while. It's back now, but the database continues to grow as well as membership records and it just takes time to muscle through all of that. When it gets too slow, I just back off for a while. I know this may not be satisfying, but at least you know why. Let us know if you have any other questions.
Coram Deo
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Gene Café Forum Developer Howard City, MI 276 Posts |
Depending on what time you're referring to, the server could be running its nightly updates at that time. The "bigger" one runs at 1am Eastern (there are three different updates that run every night). I'd love to have a bigger server - actually, two, one for http and the other for the database - but there just isn't enough money for it. Rather the reverse ... in some ways, using red here would be more applicable than green ...
Somebody kick me off the computer, will ya?
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