Forum Stability

[Null]

PHPBB is a piece of shit and we've never even been close to 260 people on at once actively doing stuff. There's no way around it. I bought $20's worth of extra ram and it's still getting annihilated.

 

[Watcher]

Are you going to employ a similar system to the previous forum? In that your going to disallow guests to view the forum?

 

[Null]

Are you going to employ a similar system to the previous forum? In that your going to disallow guests to view the forum?

Won't help. I'd have to shut off registrations to reduce traffic, and if we do that we might as well rename ourselves the PVCC. The point of the forum is to get information out.

 

[Watcher]

You could restrict registration to like certain days of the week. I've been on websites that restricted registration to Fridays and Saturdays.

 

[CatParty]

I'll pitch in money if that would help out, null.

 

[Mourning Dove]

Won't help. I'd have to shut off registrations to reduce traffic, and if we do that we might as well rename ourselves the PVCC. The point of the forum is to get information out.

I appreciate you keeping these forums alive and open to everyone through your own funds, Null. Even if I don't use the forums that often.

 

[garbageraider]

PHPBB is a piece of shit and we've never even been close to 260 people on at once actively doing stuff. There's no way around it. I bought $20's worth of extra ram and it's still getting annihilated.

I would have thought that for around $100 a year, you could get webhosting that could handle a few thousand visitors, no problem. Then again, that's not my area of expertise. The cwcki forums, and the cwcki, do seem to easily get overwhelmed though. What can be done to improve website resilience at a reasonable cost?

 

[Null]

Webhosting is an expensive service. The problem isn't actually outbound traffic volume, it's memory usage. The forum runs on phpBB, and being someone who personally does 'software as a service' for a living I can tell you the code quality is abysmal. It's a seriously outdated codebase that has been held together by duct tape and bits of string for over a decade now. The black fact is that the forum eats up a lot more memory than it should, and even with Linode's very generous volume of memory it still gets eaten up by a mere 300 users.

 

[Sweet and Savoury]

Is it really worth moving though?

After a few days traffic levels will drop back to normal; unless Chrissy does something really unexpected. I can live with the slow speeds for a few days 8-)

 

[Null]

Is it really worth moving though?

After a few days traffic levels will drop back to normal; unless Chrissy does something really unexpected. I can live with the slow speeds for a few days 8-)

No, it's not. Not unless traffic levels stay high. Then I might look into a professional forum suite.

 

[Watcher]

No, it's not. Not unless traffic levels stay high. Then I might look into a professional forum suite.

Would you stay with Phpbb or go to a different software like vBulletin?

 

[ChurchOfGodBear]

Whatever you need to do, please do. Also, please let us know if the financial end of things gets to be an issue.

 

[Null]

Whatever you need to do, please do. Also, please let us know if the financial end of things gets to be an issue.

The intense traffic flow is probably over now. We'll have higher-than-normal traffic because more people have been introduced to Chris, but that the server can handle.

 

[Null]

~20 minutes of downtime due to massive data center Linode relying on having issues.

 

[Watcher]

The forums are displaying very oddly in Firefox, I cannot post or edit threads and mChat isn't viewable. I switched to Internet explorer and it seems to be working fine. Albiet gifs run slow.

 

[Mauvman Shuffleboard]

The forums are displaying very oddly in Firefox, I cannot post or edit threads and mChat isn't viewable. I switched to Internet explorer and it seems to be working fine. Albiet gifs run slow.

I'm using Firefox and it's running fine for me, are you sure you were logged in?

 

[Watcher]

I'm using Firefox and it's running fine for me, are you sure you were logged in?

Yes

What happens when I try and view mchat

Spoiler

What happens when I try and post

Spoiler

What happens when I try and edit threads

Spoiler

 

[LM 697]

You were banned.

 

[Watcher]

You were banned.

I posted just fine in Internet Explorer, I'm just incapable of doing so in Firefox.

 

[Stuff and Things]

The forums are displaying very oddly in Firefox, I cannot post or edit threads and mChat isn't viewable. I switched to Internet explorer and it seems to be working fine. Albiet gifs run slow.

I am using Firefox and this thing logs out by itself sometimes, it may be that.
Or it may be this specific version of firefox, it has been giving me problems lately.