Site Speed and Stabilty Update

LoOkOuT

Hear ye, hear ye! There's been some site maintenance taken place over night, all in aid of sorting out our recent speed and stability issues. This is just an initial step, so please continue to bear with us. Things may be better, or worse, or exactly the same; it's difficult to say how the server will perform for you once the site fills up. I have my fingers crossed. Theoretically, it should be better. Nevertheless, we have laid the foundations for solving our issues and we will be there soon.

Henry Irving

What do we want? SPELL CHECKER
When do we want it? NOW


; - )

Medders

[cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]What do we want? BOTTLED BEER
When do we want it? MONTHS AGO


; - )

;-)

bingaddick

Spell checker works with Firefox - It highlights dodgy spellings in red. No alternatives are offered but its a start. (I think you have to have downloaded the right Firefox module).

Medders

Don't want to tempt fate Lookie, but all has been good for the hour or so I've been on for this morning....

Oggy Red

The site just dropped me, Looky - and I lost my post.

The page came up with fatal error.

The error occurred on or near: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: User lookhere_lookout already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connections.


Did we exceed capacity with too many users on at once?

Oggy Red

Oops, sorry LoOky......meant to be a whisper, Duh!

LoOkOuT

Not so much too many users, but too many users accessing the database at once. One of the major problems we're having is that this message board software really hammers the database that runs it. That's because for every user a record is kept of what they've read and what they haven't. If they've got unread whispers etc. There's a lot of load on the system.

I think we're close to sorting it out though, that's the good news.

WSS

what's the bad news?

Henry Irving

[cite]Posted By: Medders[/cite]

[cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]What do we want? BOTTLED BEER
When do we want it? MONTHS AGO


; - )

;-)

Go and speak to Razil. He said he really likes the bottled beer that's on sale now and has only kind things to say about the quality and price. : -)

Alex Wright

[cite]Posted By: LoOkOuT[/cite]Not so much too many users, but too many users accessing the database at once. One of the major problems we're having is that this message board software really hammers the database that runs it. That's because for every user a record is kept of what they've read and what they haven't. If they've got unread whispers etc. There's a lot of load on the system.

I think we're close to sorting it out though, that's the good news.

Seem much improved at the moment.

Perhaps you'd be better off enabling the multi threaded server on your database :-)

Geek Joke!

Medders

Can Spectrums handle multi threading Alex?

bingaddick

After yesterday when I couldn't get into the forum most of the day, the site has been running really well and pages have been loading fast tonight. Fingers crossed then Lookie?

Stu_of_Kunming

Surely moving over to vBulletin would solve all the problems

Oggy Red

The site fell over for me around 5pm to 6pm GMT today but this evening has been fine. No probs at all and loading properly.

Cheers for all your efforts, LoOky!

BDL

LoOky/AFKA,

I know this has been raised before, but is this an issue that we can all assist with? i.e. subscriptions or donations to pay for more server space??

This is a great community and it's bloomin' frustrating when it's down - so bad I've even dabbled with Addickted - Sorry Dan

You've both poured a hell of a lot into this site, so can we all help out in some form?

LoOkOuT

Thanks Dave. We'll raise this again soon, but my main effort is to get stable and cruising again.