Author Topic: New server. Supposed to be faster. Feedback please. (Read 18643 times)

goodsamaritan · « **on:** September 29, 2012, 12:04:30 am »

Moved dedicated server hosting from the USA to Germany.

New server. Supposed to be faster. Feedback please.

cherimoya_kid · « **Reply #1 on:** September 29, 2012, 10:07:53 am »

Faster so far.

LePatron7 · « **Reply #2 on:** September 29, 2012, 08:10:39 pm »

Quote from: cherimoya_kid on September 29, 2012, 10:07:53 am

Faster so far.

Yup

eveheart · « **Reply #3 on:** September 30, 2012, 06:58:19 am »

Highly variable - sometimes the pages load in a blink, other times the "waiting for www.rawpaleodietforum.com" lasts 10 seconds or longer.

goodsamaritan · « **Reply #4 on:** September 30, 2012, 10:22:15 am »

I did some web server optimizing settings.
I also made some SMF forum optimization settings, notice the avatar slow loading problem should go away.
Also adjusted topics to show 25 posts per page before clicking to the next page.

goodsamaritan · « **Reply #5 on:** September 30, 2012, 02:02:02 pm »

this new dedicated machine just froze on me.

I haven't figured out what happened.

Will have to test it longer.

TylerDurden · « **Reply #6 on:** October 08, 2012, 12:36:28 am »

I wasn't able to access rawpaleoforum at all 6 hours ago.

eveheart · « **Reply #7 on:** October 08, 2012, 10:49:04 am »

I'm experiencing long stretches of no access, too. The old server was not agonizingly slow.

goodsamaritan · « **Reply #8 on:** October 08, 2012, 01:51:54 pm »

The server froze while I was asleep.
checking out the bugs and what caused it.

TylerDurden · « **Reply #9 on:** October 08, 2012, 02:25:43 pm »

Quote from: goodsamaritan on October 08, 2012, 01:51:54 pm

The server froze while I was asleep.
checking out the bugs and what caused it.

Why do these bugs happen every now and then to the various forums I've visited in the past? Is it always hackers being stupid or just that modern technology is still way too primitive?

goodsamaritan · « **Reply #10 on:** October 08, 2012, 03:04:56 pm »

I have a new server. i7-3770 ivy bridge, 32 GB memory, 2 x 3TB hard drives.
The processor is cutting edge too new.
The Linux OS I installed is Ubuntu 12.04.1 and it seems to be flaky with it.
I upgraded Ubuntu to the latest edition and will hope it settles the matter.

If it still freezes once or twice... I will replace ubuntu 12.04.1 with CentOS 6.3

Which is a good amount of labor. So I hope the ubuntu 12.04.1 latest upgrade holds.

That's the base operating system. We are using Oracle Virtualbox for the virtualization. The actual web server runs on a virtual machine using ubuntu 10.04 which is stable. The mysql database is mysql 5.5 on the ubuntu server itself.

aLptHW4k4y · « **Reply #11 on:** October 09, 2012, 02:17:11 am »

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 on the same CPU (i7-3770K), haven't had any problems.
I'd suggest you Debian if possible, I'm only running Ubuntu because that's the only thing I managed to install with this new UEFI BIOS.

goodsamaritan · « **Reply #12 on:** October 09, 2012, 05:57:35 am »

Debian 6.x was my first choice but the freezing was a lot worse in my other i7 3770 servers, some 4x a day.

Before this last ubuntu upgrade, the freezing was some 3 plus days. But i have a similar ubuntu 12 thats stable in another setup.

The ones with centos 6.3 are rock solid so far. Even if i had to add the mod to use JFS for my file system.

The ubuntu 12s use ext4.

Its a quirk with the ext 4 bug that virtualbox complains about if you use ext 4 and your kernel is below 3.

Seems this latest ubuntu 12.04.1 is holding up for the moment.

TylerDurden · « **Reply #13 on:** October 16, 2012, 04:40:37 pm »

Couldn't access rawpaleoforum at all, last night.

goodsamaritan · « **Reply #14 on:** October 16, 2012, 10:35:05 pm »

Yes, it happened during my sleeping time.
I then upgraded Ubuntu 12.04.1 to the latest kernel now at Linux version 3.2.0-32 with ext-4

If it freezes again, that will be the last straw.
And I will have to next change to CentOS 6.3 with JFS

Note that this forum is piggy backing on a customer's mission critical email server that handles some 600+ email addresses.

Haai · « **Reply #15 on:** October 17, 2012, 04:50:07 am »

I can't access rawpaleoforum with Comodo Dragon. After about a week of trying I decided to try Firefox and it worked.

eveheart · « **Reply #16 on:** October 17, 2012, 12:14:48 pm »

FEEDBACK: "Show unread posts since last visit" works differently than it used to.

Old way: All unread posts were listed until I read them, even if I closed the browser and returned later.

New way that I do not like: If I click "Show unread posts since last visit," the list of unread posts is displayed. Then, if I close the browser window and come back later to read more of the unread posts, the refreshed list does not display the posts that were previously listed but still unread.

Can the old way be restored?

goodsamaritan · « **Reply #17 on:** October 17, 2012, 01:30:13 pm »

Quote from: eveheart on October 17, 2012, 12:14:48 pm

FEEDBACK: "Show unread posts since last visit" works differently than it used to.

Old way: All unread posts were listed until I read them, even if I closed the browser and returned later.

New way that I do not like: If I click "Show unread posts since last visit," the list of unread posts is displayed. Then, if I close the browser window and come back later to read more of the unread posts, the refreshed list does not display the posts that were previously listed but still unread.

Can the old way be restored?

I will look into this.

TylerDurden · « **Reply #18 on:** October 21, 2012, 09:25:07 pm »

I tried accessing rawpaleoforum this morning and failed miserably until mid-afternoon.

goodsamaritan · « **Reply #19 on:** October 21, 2012, 09:52:27 pm »

This server is screwed.
I'm moving out my virtual machines to the backup machines.
I am reformatting this server and hopefully it comes out better.
In the meantime, in the next few hours I am reinstalling... so this server will be on and off.

goodsamaritan · « **Reply #20 on:** October 22, 2012, 04:03:34 am »

I just reinstalled this machine with CentOS 6.3 as the base OS.
Hoping for a more stable experience.
Will have to proceed to tweaking in the next few hours.

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lost a night of sleep with this thing. Goodbye Ubuntu 12.04.1

TylerDurden · « **Reply #21 on:** October 22, 2012, 04:44:36 am »

Ah, back to normal, for the moment. I never realised modern technology was still so haphazard. Thanks, GS, I realise it's a lot of work.

goodsamaritan · « **Reply #22 on:** January 22, 2013, 04:48:59 pm »

Now this rawpaleodietforum.com should be ultimately faster.

I have separated physically the database to a separate dedicated server.

So the website server is still in the same server.

cherimoya_kid · « **Reply #23 on:** January 23, 2013, 11:11:25 am »

It's running faster for me now.

eveheart · « **Reply #24 on:** January 23, 2013, 11:15:14 am »

Very fast and smooth.

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