mod 135640 Report post Posted December 23, 2010 The main DB server upgrade was completed today and so far it looks real good but only time will tell. I will be monitoring the servers to make sure they are all getting along with each other and no funny stuff going on. We should really see a big increase in speed from this upgrade. Please, if you notice anything not working let me know right away. The site is so busy that we must run the site off multiple dedicated servers all working together. Sometimes servers don't work well together and need "tweaking" so let me know if anything is odd. So far so good... knock on wood? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mod 135640 Report post Posted December 23, 2010 I guess the only REAL way to see if the servers are powerful enough is to launch the shoutbox again... This is just a Trial for now! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mod 135640 Report post Posted December 23, 2010 Seams to be working... 550% server load but that is ok as we are running 8 cores so as long as that does not hit 800% server load we are good. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Capital Hunter 18263 Report post Posted December 23, 2010 Yeah. It is a lot faster for me this afternoon to open threads and navigate around cerb:D. Great upgrade and many thanks. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
swegin 5885 Report post Posted December 23, 2010 Nice work, mod! Hey, got a question for ya - is there a newer version of that Tapatalk thingie you're running? I was trying a new client and it said the server was running an outdated version, and refused to log in. Posted via Mobile Device Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ou**or**n Report post Posted December 24, 2010 Tapatalk working fine for me :) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mod 135640 Report post Posted December 24, 2010 A update was available so I downloaded it and installed it to the forum. Let me know if it's working for everyone. We have over 120 users now using tapatalk so I guess people like it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
quick25 137 Report post Posted December 24, 2010 Wow thanks for the christmas gift !! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
swegin 5885 Report post Posted December 24, 2010 That did the trick, it is working great now. Really appreciate it, thanks :) A update was available so I downloaded it and installed it to the forum. Let me know if it's working for everyone. We have over 120 users now using tapatalk so I guess people like it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
A***** A***** 510 Report post Posted December 25, 2010 Awesome work on the upgrade mod. Can't imagine what goes into doing something like that Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cato 160314 Report post Posted December 31, 2010 I was wondering what happened to the Online members list on the home page? It seems to have disappeared, along with the list of members reading a thread (at the bottom of the thread screen). Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drlove 37204 Report post Posted December 31, 2010 Thanks for all your hard work, Mod. Very much appreciated! All the best to you for 2011 8) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
quick25 137 Report post Posted December 31, 2010 I also saw this. Not that it is needed I just liked it for intrests sake. I was wondering what happened to the Online members list on the home page? It seems to have disappeared, along with the list of members reading a thread (at the bottom of the thread screen). Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cato 160314 Report post Posted January 12, 2011 The online members list was back for a while, but now seems to be gone again. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mod 135640 Report post Posted January 12, 2011 Still working on it all.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Leber 1328 Report post Posted January 12, 2011 Speed is much improved except for the photos section. Is this what you're seeing as well? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
etasman2000 15994 Report post Posted January 13, 2011 (edited) I'm pretty certain the list use to be sorted with the current logged in user name first. eg etasman2000* list_of_sorted_active_users I also notice the following active users without any profile links Bing(125), Yahoo! Slurp(2), Google(8), InfoSpiders(15), Yandex Bot, Ichiro Mobile, MSNBot(3), Speedy(6), DotBot, Artabus what are these bots doing ? Edited January 13, 2011 by etasman2000 wrong quote tag Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cato 160314 Report post Posted January 13, 2011 156 spiders last time I checked. Weird. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mod 135640 Report post Posted January 13, 2011 I'm pretty certain the list use to be sorted with the current logged in user name first. eg I also notice the following active users without any profile links what are these bots doing ? Yes, it was sorted alphabetically but that was taking up huge levels of system resources so I made it random. The search engines SPIDER your site (These bots are knows as crawlers or index spiders) bing seams to ABUSE this with 100+ at any given time. These spiders make your listings on the search engines and I am just having the system monitor (Benchmark) how much resources these spiders are using. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moonshine 399 Report post Posted January 14, 2011 I noticed the robots on the user list too and had no idea what they were so I searched on Google to find out. Came across this while I was reading, maybe it would help to minimize the load? http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/search/webcrawler/slurp-03.html Not specific to Yahoo btw Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mod 135640 Report post Posted January 14, 2011 thanks moonshine, I wonder if that would discourage indexing of a site. I will have to research that more. anyone notice a speed increase today? we optimized the server a lot and got memcached (caching system) running on two servers... well. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moonshine 399 Report post Posted January 14, 2011 From what I understood, that rule is just limiting the time between hits from the spider. So since you're not blocking it altogether, it's only slowing it down. I would imagine that the spiders would only interpret that as a slower site and keep crawling away. And probably only needed in cases where there are an abnormally high amount, not all of them. Most people use Google anyway so just leave them alone! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PistolPete 61421 Report post Posted January 14, 2011 Today earlier this morning was fine that in the past hour, I have been disconnected twice from the site. Following comes up....wondering if anyone else has the same issues?? Service Temporarily Unavailable The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
