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Sealegs Inner circle The UK, Portsmouth 2596 Posts |
Since your recent server problems it seems to take a very long time for the various pages on the site to open akin to dial up speed.
Just wanted to make you aware of this.
Neal Austin
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Gene Café Forum Developer Howard City, MI 276 Posts |
Yes, we're aware of it, though it doesn't happen all the time - only when searches are being run. It's due to changing the storage engine in the database. The database version on this server is newer than the old server and the storage engine change was required to prevent crashing and data loss. We're obviously going to have to make some changes, but they can't be done in a day - it's going to take some time.
Just what I needed, right?
Somebody kick me off the computer, will ya?
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Artie Fufkin Special user 853 Posts |
You do a fantastic job Gene, and most impressive is you do it with honesty and a sense of humor!
...anybody who works with software knows that it's not "if" it's going to go sideways - it's "when" it's going to go sideways |
Gene Café Forum Developer Howard City, MI 276 Posts |
I've been doing some tweaking. Is the speed better now?
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Artie Fufkin Special user 853 Posts |
Definitely faster in the past couple of days, but still noticeably slower than pre-upgrade.
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Gene Café Forum Developer Howard City, MI 276 Posts |
Gotcha. Still working on things, it should get better as I go. Hopefully!
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Sealegs Inner circle The UK, Portsmouth 2596 Posts |
Thanks for the reply Gene.
Neal Austin
"The golden rule is that there are no golden rules." G.B. Shaw |
Artie Fufkin Special user 853 Posts |
I'm now seeing speeds as fast as pre-upgrade.
The entire site loads in a second or so, individual posts even faster. |
RicHeka Inner circle 3999 Posts |
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On Oct 22, 2015, Artie Fufkin wrote: I certainly agree! Gene takes on the most difficult tech challenges with calmness, knowledge, and certitude. About two years ago I switched from a mammoth hosting service .... to the comparatively tiny 'GMB Web Works' for hosting my site. GMB was the ticket. Friendly and effective hosting and website design. I highly recommended GMB for hosting and building websites. http://www.gmbwebworks.com/ Also, let's not forget 'talented' Mary. Mary is the "M" in GMB. Mary personally worked closely and patiently with me and designed my website. Thank-you Gene and Mary! Happy trails. Rich |
gatorjim New user Fayetteville, TN 53 Posts |
Gene, I've just returned to the forums after an absence of over a year. A couple of things I've noticed: my posting count dropped from 60+ down to less than ten....not a big deal but it does affect my access to certain forums / topics. The second thing I've noticed relates to the speed of message posting. Whenever I hit "submit reply", I find it is taking 30 to 40 seconds for the posting to load. Is that normal or is it related to some of the issues that have been raised in this particular topic?
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Gene Café Forum Developer Howard City, MI 276 Posts |
Hi gatorjim,
At the moment speed depends on what may be going on at a given time such as searches being run, keyword indexing, etc. Also, I am still working on other server issues and when those changes are being made, depending on what that may be, it may slow things down here as well. I hope to have all the changes done by the end of the week. Once those are done I will be scheduling a time to upgrade the database software, and I will need to shut down the Café to do that. I'll likely schedule that for a time soon after the nightly backups are run, so maybe 2-3am or so. After that, or at least once the snow starts flying here, I'll begin a rewrite of the Café to take care of other things, notably those things that are slowing down the site due to having to use the new database storage engine on this new server. Regarding your posts, I ran a full search of your account and found 49 posts total, and with certain forums that don't count, the number you're at right now seems about right. Now, whether some of your posts were deleted along with entire topics I don't know, that's a function of the mods. As a matter of personal policy I don't delete posts or topics unless asked. Hope that helps!
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Gene Café Forum Developer Howard City, MI 276 Posts |
Ok guys, I finished the work I set out to do. Things should be generally faster now. Could you please let me know from time to time how it's going? I would appreciate it!
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