Forum Outage

[Mightyman]

Would you consider moving the forum to a faster machine altogether? Maybe a VPS?

Vultr.com $2.50 per month for a decent enough Linux server. I'm sure a few of us on here would be happy to donate a few quid to help the cause

[Calum]

@Mightyman Lol, that's worse specs than what we're already running.

[Calum]

You're talking spending $10 a month to beat the spec's of our current server.

Might not sound a lot, but it's going from $0 a year, to $120 a year, for five or six members lol.

I am going to keep a close on the situation. I noticed the machine only had 100Mb Swap, I've upped it to a Gb and the problem has gone away.

But the issue is with the software used, it will reoccur once the Database reaches a certain size again, by design.

I think long term, we need to migrate away from the current Database and move to a more reliable service.

The guys who wrote this forum do offer this as a service, at $50. Which is a better price to pay as a one off than pay for hosting which is no better than what we got.

But even then, it'll only be a script to migrate the database. Shouldn't be too hard to figure out.

[Calum]

So upping the Swap file has seemed to make a noticeable difference. Haven't encountered this database problem so far.

But as I say, it'll only be a matter of time.

[Calum]

Just quickly upgraded the operating system and forum software.

[Calum]

There is likely to be a forum outage tomorrow as the power is scheduled to be disconnected.

I don't know for how long, but obviously I will endeavour to put it back online as soon as power is resetablished.

Kind Regards,

Calum

[Louis-DT-WR]

@Calum cheers for all the administration good someone's keeping the forum ticking over..

Any update on the wall of fame idea?

[NINJA]

@Calum OK - Good_to_know.

[Calum]

@Louis-James Yeah, the code is all written. I need to migrate the forum to redirect all requests from dt125r.co.uk/ to /forum.

So every single link, image, post and topic needs to be migrated.

I then need to migrate the database from Redis to Mongo, might as well throw in a new server to boot. Then deploy the code.

Probably won't be done this side of christmas.

[NINJA]

@Calum Forum keeps going down, connection lost and won't reload.

[declan]

@NINJA fine for me today

[Calum]

@NINJA Not seeing anything obvious in the logs.

[NINJA]

@Calum MMMMMMMM weird must have been something on my end then???

[Calum]

@NINJA Doubtful, I wouldn't discredit the forums stability. Just have to appreciate we're doing it on a shoe string budget.

[NINJA]

@Calum Nylon or Teflon laces??? :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_closed_eyes: :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_cold_sweat: :face_with_tears_of_joy:

[Calum]

@NINJA Phwoar, if I was paying that much then I would have thrown in the towel long ago.

[Calum]

Just running through some updates. Will lose connectivity imminently·

[NINJA]

@Calum OK Good_to_know.

[Calum]

All updated.

Let me know if there are issues.

[NINJA]

@Calum Thanks good job and will do.