Forum Outage

[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.

[NINJA]

@Calum I'm having some issues with the forum dropping off, I keep getting the lost connection message and then the forum unavailable aka 503 excessive load message as well. I'm not sure why or if it's just me, but you may want to look into it bud???

[Calum]

Yeah the forum has had a lot of traffic as of late.

I expect it's down to running out of memory again. Unfortunately, without investing heavily into more hardware I am a little limited to what I can actually do.