APOLYTON needs a BIGGER house!

[Gatekeeper]

Originally posted by MarkG
We are renting a dedicated server. this means that the company from which we have rented is only obliged for the well begin of it's hardware and it's net connection. support is offered on basic things, not a full technical support

Therefore, the only time something was done by the company staff on the server the last 3.5 months was when a manual reboot was needed. The rest(for better or worse) was all Dan and me.

So, in essence, SETTLER is responsible for the hardware (server) and its connection to the greater Internet while you and Dan have to keep the software running properly?

'Poly runs on Red Hat, right? Just curious ... seems some folks think RH isn't that great and that MySQL (or whatever) is better. (I'm obviously not familiar with the "ins-and-outs" of just what constitutes good software for forums.)

Anyway, you and Dan are the twine that keeps this baler together. Here's to continued good luck!

Gatekeeper

[MarkG]

some corrections:

"settler" is just the name we gave to our server, not the company we rent it from
"redhat" is a distribution of linux(operating system)
"mysql" is a database server application(aka daemon)

[notyoueither]

OK, but where is the bottle neck that causes the too many connections message?

Can you correct that?

[Eli]

Is the problem in the number of users that are online, or the number of Apolyton windows that are loading?

[Urban Ranger]

SDMB eats posts all the time too.

[Solver]

Eli, generally every window you're loading in is sending a separate request to the database.

[Panag]

hi ,

what happens to all those email's that have been dispatched to "our" technical staff , ...

have a nice day

[Ari Rahikkala]

If vBulletin uses persistent database connections, maybe you should try SQL Relay ( http://www.firstworks.com/sqlrelay.html )? It does connection pooling, which PHP (AFAIK) doesn't have support for. Should slow general loading times very slightly but make the database work a lot smoother.

[Ari Rahikkala]

Originally posted by panag
hi ,

what happens to all those email's that have been dispatched to "our" technical staff , ...

have a nice day

They go into the Great Bit Bucket in the sky .

[Panag]

Originally posted by LightEning


They go into the Great Bit Bucket in the sky .

hi ,

grrrrrrrr


there was a time today that apolyton was out of the sky , and THAT aint fun , ......

, Mark , Dan , what about asking a proxy (8080) from a firm or so , like AOL (no not those) but something like bell , yahoo , so that when your server is down those ones could pick up , ....

have a nice day

[Ari Rahikkala]

Originally posted by panag


hi ,

grrrrrrrr


there was a time today that apolyton was out of the sky , and THAT aint fun , ......

, Mark , Dan , what about asking a proxy (8080) from a firm or so , like AOL (no not those) but something like bell , yahoo , so that when your server is down those ones could pick up , ....

have a nice day

Probably wouldn't be too useful. Apolyton has a lot of dynamic and personalised content, and proxies don't like that. If it was completely transparent and could immediately take over when Apolyton goes down (and Apolyton rarely actually goes down - the database usually has only temporary problems) it could perhaps keep some of the parts of the site outside the forums viewable, but not much more. It would basically be more trouble than it's worth.

[Lefty Scaevola]

The server likes me. It always lets me on and works just fine for ME. If there are too many users, it just bots soneone else and lets me on.

[Ari Rahikkala]

Maybe our server is actually LatG? Taking into account your signature that would make sense...

[Rasbelin]

Things have got worse for me too, as now even I encounter this traffic jam problem. Well, let's just hope more bandwith or server capacity will come available.

[GhengisFarb™]

Wow, now that I know I'm not the only getting blocked out, I seem to feel better........