Moved server (again) to Adelaide!

Righto! So when I first started hosting the forum after the great crash of September 07 I set it up on a system in Sydney. To save money I later moved it to a server in Melbourne. Now to save money again I have moved it to a server I own (rather than one I hire) which is hosted deep in an old nuclear bunker underneath* the Adelaide CBD. This should improve speeds for you and save me money since I host this for free (cause I love you all*)

tldr version: nothing important really.

Let me know if you notice any problems.




* These parts aren't actually true.

Yes, this is clearly much faster for me. Nice one!

Cool, am also keen to hear if people do notice speed differences. I am glad you have!

The server is doing nothing but hosting this site and one other at the moment so there's not really any load on it at all. It'll get loaded with stuff over time but 4 cores of Xeon CPU and 12GB of RAM will handle it just fine! 

Seems to be quicker for me too.

Cool, am also keen to hear if people do notice speed differences. I am glad you have!

The server is doing nothing but hosting this site and one other at the moment so there's not really any load on it at all. It'll get loaded with stuff over time but 4 cores of Xeon CPU and 12GB of RAM will handle it just fine! 

Yeah it used to do this thing where it would load the top half of the page (heading/profile/first few posts) fairly quickly then the rest would slowly pop up and finally the images came in.

Now it just all pops up in one go.

Magnificent!

took a while, but now i can finally get on! when will we be losing that ftw bit? all my bookmarks dont work anymore...

thanks for the troubleshooting assistance before oli! site is loading nice and quick now! boh!

Yeah it used to do this thing where it would load the top half of the page (heading/profile/first few posts) fairly quickly then the rest would slowly pop up and finally the images came in.

Yeah, before the "static" part of the page was loading first then the database queries required to build the rest of the page were holding back the rest of the page load time... I spent ages configuring this new server so not only is it on beefy hardware but the software has been optimised a lot to ensure the best performance.

took a while, but now i can finally get on! when will we be losing that ftw bit? all my bookmarks dont work anymore...

thanks for the troubleshooting assistance before oli! site is loading nice and quick now! boh!

Tomorrow and no probs.

Noticeably quicker, thanks Oli 

took a while, but now i can finally get on! when will we be losing that ftw bit? all my bookmarks dont work anymore...

ftw should be gone now. Let me know if you have any problems.

ftw should be gone now. Let me know if you have any problems.

Something went a bit weird for me 20 minutes or so ago. The main page would only load as text on a white background and when I tried to go anywhere from there with the /index.php? suffix it had a 404 error.

All good now though!

Yeah you must have been reloading the page just as I was switching it from ftw. back to www.

Is anyone else noticing that pages either load almost instantaneously or there is a significant delay before it even starts loading?

I am seeing a few weird delays but am not sure where the problem is...

Taking server offline today at 5PM or so to install some shiny new 300GB 10K RPM SAS drives.

I seem to be having some issues with the "Show unread posts since last visit" option now. It doesn't show any results, even when I click on the "Show all new replies" option. The only way I can see what is new is if I go to "Show new replies to your posts." Though that way I'll miss out on any new threads that have been created.

Could it be something to do with the new server config?

I don't use that feature. Can someone else tell me if it's behaving differently to before?

I don't use that feature. Can someone else tell me if it's behaving differently to before?

It works intermittently. For instance, it's working fine now, but both times I have checked posts after a lengthy absence (several hours to a day's duration) it shows no results.

Unread posts since last visit works for me at home and here at work, although I get a similar problem to Glock on my parents' computer.

Going to DC now to install more drives... Will be down for a little bit

OK I didn't power down after all... Hot swap drives FTW!

Offline? Hotswap that shiz!

I did... The drives are in the server now.

Offline? Hotswap that shiz! :E

Hahaha i was on my phone and your post didnt show up for some reason

Nice work!

Hahaha i was on my phone and your post didnt show up for some reason :lol:

Nice work!

Tomorrow morning I am giving the server a bit of a workout. I have another client launching something on their site which might put a bit of load on this machine for a few hours... Let's see if it holds up.

Not sure if anyone can tell a difference at the moment but the server is basically pushing ~4mbits out for the guys at Rip It Up because they just launched the WOMAD 2011 program.

Is anyone else noticing that pages either load almost instantaneously or there is a significant delay before it even starts loading?

I am seeing a few weird delays but am not sure where the problem is...

I'm noticing this happening this morning. Although it could be attributed to...

Not sure if anyone can tell a difference at the moment but the server is basically pushing ~4mbits out for the guys at Rip It Up because they just launched the WOMAD 2011 program.

I am not really noticing any difference compared to last night overall. The server is connected to the net at 100mbits but I am still confused as to why about 5% of the time there is an initial delay before the page even starts loading. The rest of the time basically all the pages load instantly. The only thing slowing them down is other peoples avatars and the Google ads since neither are hosted off my own server.

It's certainly strange. Seems to be happening less frequently now than it was a couple of hours ago though.

 
 Maybe I can come over to yours and plus my computer directly into the server?

 Imagine how much Adelaide Massive I could browse in 5 mins :AM:

 Nothing risque.

It's not at my place. It's in a data centre and it's cold and noisy inside.

I think the delay was just Safari being weird.

I don't seem to have any delays at all in Chrome.

Unread posts is still having issues here.

It's really tedious having to go into each subforum to find anything brand new.

Do you think it could be related to my cookies?

I'll do a clean out of my cookies and see...

Yes, clear your whole cache. Also try another browser if possible to see if you can reproduce the problem.

Report back when you can soldier.

Yes, clear your whole cache. Also try another browser if possible to see if you can reproduce the problem.

Report back when you can soldier.

Still having issues most of the time. Cookies and cache have all been cleared a couple of times now.

I'm having a problem now with it needing to sign in everytime even when I click "Forever".

It's never ending over here!

Can you try another browser? Surely someone else would have posted here by now if there was a wider problem...

Can you try another browser? Surely someone else would have posted here by now if there was a wider problem...

Hmm, I'll give it a go.

Ta

I am moving another big-ish site to this server tonight so at least then I'll have a few more people hitting it who will report problems if any come up...

Ta

I am moving another big-ish site to this server tonight so at least then I'll have a few more people hitting it who will report problems if any come up...

It shouldn't be a browser issue though I'm thinking. My browser hasn't changed or updated in anyway, it's only the server that has.

Come on, I'm paying millions of nothing for this service, get it together!

15 bucks, little man, put that shit, in my hand...

Well, early indications seem to show Chrome is staying logged in and is showing unread posts!

Don't tell me your new server has some bias against (my favourite browser) Opera!

If this is the case, would you know of any reason why?

Well I upgraded the forum software at the same time as doing the move so perhaps that played a part. Not sure why it would though especially after you've cleared out the cache and everything...

Well I upgraded the forum software at the same time as doing the move so perhaps that played a part. Not sure why it would though especially after you've cleared out the cache and everything...

Hmm, I might google to see if there are any reported problems with Opera and this version.

Is it SMF 1.1.12 as listed at the bottom of the page?

Yes it is.

Does anyone else use email notifications for topic replies and PMs?

I only have them set for pms.

Topic replies would result in a lot of emails!

Yeah i have them set for topic replies and yes i get a metric shittonne of mail every day hahaha

I really should change that... I haven't had any since the server upgrade though...

Yeah i have them set for topic replies and yes i get a metric shittonne of mail every day hahaha

I really should change that... I haven't had any since the server upgrade though...

The notifications have been working fine for you (plural) in the last 48 hours?

Noone has pmed me in the last 48 hours

 

Yeah, i went through my inbox and they're there so they are working

Gonna change the setting though. No real need to have 30 emails a day from AM

Yeah, i went through my inbox and they're there so they are working :)

Gonna change the setting though. No real need to have 30 emails a day from AM :lol:

Thanks, I still have a few things to fix. :/

Can someone send me a PM please.

sorted: thx

Everything still humming along nicely for everyone? Especially those on fast connections in Adelaide?

A few big sites I host which I suspect everyone here would know about (Rip It Up and Onion) are now hosted on the same server.

Still having issues most of the time. Cookies and cache have all been cleared a couple of times now.

I'm having a problem now with it needing to sign in everytime even when I click "Forever".

It's never ending over here!

I've figured out the issue I reckon.

The problem was that I was linking from the ftw.adelaidemassive.com site. Now that I have changed over to the original www.adelaidemassive.com URL, my cookies are retained and unread posts are showing up as they should!

Yep that'd do it.