Downtime

[Brian]

All,

 

I have noticed that I seem to have some downtime lately from my hosts. I am usually on to them fast, but I need to know if anyone else is having frequent downtime on the forum.

They say the server has some load peaks (guess this means we are getting busy lately) but I have contacted them to try and solve these issues.

If you have problems accessing the site, please try it again in a few minutes, and if it happens more than twice in a few days, please let me know here.

I have upgraded the server and hosting plan with plently of space and bandwidth, but server load seems another issue entirely.

Be assured that I am on this issue 24/7 and will make sure we get it sorted out.

In the meatime, please let me know if you have any trouble accessing the site or slow performance.

 

Thanks,

 

Brian

[AndreasU]

Hi Brian,

 

yes it's true. sometimes at CET 22:00 or later, the board cannot be reached.

 

I can offer you to move your board (database) to one of my domains. I have 30GB of Webspace and no traffic limitation. As I am not able to give something for the raffle, this would be my "drop in" to support this board and to reduce your costs! I also have one Domainname available which you can choose eg. NMB-Board.com or something like that.

 

Andreas

 

P.S. I will get in contact with Richard Stein to ofer him the same as he also has a lot of "traffic reached" problems at his geocities sites. Would'nt that be a great idea to merge this wonderful board with his exceptionally nice Informationbase? All on one page available?

[Brian]

Thanks Andreas, but I think we are ok for now.

The webspace and bandwidth are more than ample (we have 20 gigs space and 200 gigs bandwidth thanks to the kindness of the raffle supporters each year)

I don't think it is either of those causing the problem. The sql database requests, together with googlebot, are causing a bit of server peak loads. I doubt it is this site too...probably a few others hosting on the same server.

The forum has some high server requirements, but I have them looking into it. I think it will be fine.

Just need to know how often it is happening, especially when I am not around to see it.

I am waiting for the final version of phpBB3 to be released (could be days, weeks or months) so that we can upgrade the forum and have some nice new features. If anyone does find the site doesn't load, just try refresh or come back in a few minutes. There is no way we are ever out of bandwidth

 

Regards,

Brian