Forum Outage
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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
@Mightyman Lol, that's worse specs than what we're already running.
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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.
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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
Always Originate, Never Pirate!
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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
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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
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@Calum cheers for all the administration
good someone's keeping the forum ticking over..Any update on the wall of fame idea?
@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.
Always Originate, Never Pirate!
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@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.
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@NINJA Doubtful, I wouldn't discredit the forums stability. Just have to appreciate we're doing it on a shoe string budget.
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@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:
