My forehead thanks you for the pillow.
"I can kill you with my brain -- look what it just did to my desk!"
As Willow goes, so goes my nation.
Oz ,'Selfless'
Buffistas Building a Better Board
Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
Noumenon - Aug 16, 2003 5:31:08 pm PDT #4600 of 10000
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
Cindy - Aug 17, 2003 1:49:08 pm PDT #4601 of 10000
Nobody
FYI - I was in Beep Me, hit the message center link, and the board was suddenly unavailable. I got the "this page cannot be displayed," error message. I waited a few minutes and got in, but now the board is really slow to load and to post.
DXMachina - Aug 17, 2003 2:21:19 pm PDT #4602 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
The whole internet has been blipping in and out for me all weekend.
Cindy - Aug 17, 2003 2:22:24 pm PDT #4603 of 10000
Nobody
It's been fine for me otherwise, but b.org seems back up to speed, now.
Jessica - Aug 17, 2003 2:29:29 pm PDT #4604 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The whole internet has been blipping in and out for me all weekend.
Me too, but I think in my case it's still blackout issues.
Noumenon - Aug 18, 2003 9:33:17 pm PDT #4605 of 10000
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
Kristen said,
if we are truly using "200 concurrent mysql connections at the same time" on a Friday morning in August, I don't think there's a shared hosting environment in all the world that's going to be able to host us for very long come the fall. I really am starting to believe that this board needs a dedicated server to exist peacefully on the net.
How much does a dedicated server cost? Would it require a dedicated techie person to take care of it?
Kristen - Aug 18, 2003 9:37:00 pm PDT #4606 of 10000
Probably $150-$200 a month if you use a hosting service to maintain your server.
I have no idea how much a server would cost to build and maintain yourself but I'm not sure that would be the wisest option anyway.
ETA: And that cost is probably be a lowball estimate.
Liese S. - Aug 19, 2003 4:39:20 am PDT #4607 of 10000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Are we still LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) over here? What are the version/build numbers we're using of everything?
§ ita § - Aug 19, 2003 4:44:10 am PDT #4608 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Insent, Liese.
Astarte - Aug 19, 2003 6:36:37 am PDT #4609 of 10000
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.
I'm a mod on another board that went through similar issues a few months back. We are now on a dedicated server.
If it would be helpful, I can talk to that Admin to find out who's hosting us now, and what kind of package we started with.
That board has a smaller user pop, but a very prolific one.