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What happened today - an explanation. EVERYONE PLEASE READ

Reply #60 –
Quote from: Thunder Chicken;143016
Still mulling possibilities. No offense, Claude, but I'll have to decline your offer. Price isn't the issue - reliability is. I'd gladly pay more for hosting knowing that the host is still gonna be there tomorrow (we already went through the ordeal of having the host disappear once, and I never want to do it again). I've actually been checking things out and Dreamhost (suggested by someone in this thread and by baxo in another) seems to be a good deal and a fairly stable company.

Sammy, do you do regular backups? Having your databases disappear is not good, regardless if the host left, or you transferred hosts. Some data loss may occur if something happens before the next backup, but this should not be a "problem". It's easy to backup vB's database, especially if you have ssh access to the mysql server.

Doing regular backups, and locating a copy offsite, is something that might be looked into if this is a problem.

That said, I share some of nirvanagod's comments. I've got some experience with vBulletin and mysql. vBulletin isn't exactly kind to servers. I'm not suggesting CougarSE's hardware is not good enough for a relatively small board like this, but may not be the best avenue, in my opinion.

What happened today - an explanation. EVERYONE PLEASE READ

Reply #61 –
Well go carm looks like we need a ****ing Linux cluster in our own data center to run this board with an average of 20 or so connections.......
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What happened today - an explanation. EVERYONE PLEASE READ

Reply #62 –
Quote from: CougarSE;143221
Well go carm looks like we need a ****ing Linux cluster in our own data center to run this board with an average of 20 or so connections.......


Quote from: Jeremy T
...I'm not suggesting CougarSE's hardware is not good enough for a relatively small board like this...


I guess having came from 2.8 dual xenon processors with 4GB of memory last year that powered an active vB forum has me biased when it comes to vB running on servers and what is "good". Once again, I stated this site is relativity small and I wasn't suggesting that your hardware wasn't good enough. However, I know vB and mysql aren't gentle on servers and being cheap often leads to those same customers asking why their forum runs so slow or is nearly inaccessible due to server load.

What happened today - an explanation. EVERYONE PLEASE READ

Reply #63 –
Lets keep the cat fight to the birds!!!!
Old Grey Cat to this.88 Cat, 5.0 HO, CW mounts, mass air, CI custom cam, afr165's, Tmoss worked cobra intake, BBK shorty's,off road h pipe, magnaflow ex. T-5,spec stage 2 clutch, 8.8 373 TC trac loc, che ajustables with bullits on the rear. 11" brakes up front. +

What happened today - an explanation. EVERYONE PLEASE READ

Reply #64 –
Quote from: Thunder Chicken;139011
Deleting old posts and attachments aren't going to help - this is not a bandwidth or storage space issue, it's a CPU usage issue.
has very good storage and bandwidth for a good price, but what we didn't count on was the CPU usage. The board software (vBulletin) is apparently a resource hog.


For those that don't understand: Our site is hosted on what's called a "Shared hosting" plan. These plans are generally fairly cheap, but the tradeoff is that several sites are hosted on the same computer. If one of those sites is particularly busy or makes a lot of calls to a database (such as this site) it slows every site down on the server. If you get two or more busy sites fighting for CPU cycles it can get pretty bogged down, which is what's happening here. The problem, when using a shared server, is that we have no way of knowing what or who we're sharing the server with. If it was just a couple of people with personal sites, or even small business sites, it would be OK. We might, though, be sharing a server with six other message boards, or a person/company trying to be the next eBay or YouTube.

A dedicated server, on the other hand, is a whole computer sitting in a server farm with nothing but an OS and our website on it. The hard drive, CPU, bandwidth, and memory of this machine are all ours. The tradeoff is that it is very expensive.


One question, why not use a colocation service like,
http://www.rackmounted.com/colo.php ?