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Should be all set now.

So to finish my story off, they are now trying to charge me $4 for the 3 or 4 days that I had the better plan. It's going to be cold day in hell when they see that $4 and I've told them as much. Soon as I get my domain transferred out from their affiliate registry company I'm calling and canceling, I won't see that money but they can take it out of that.

to err is human, but really f%&* things up you need a computer!

I see we have a new record:

Most users ever online was 48 on Fri Nov 16, 2007 7:55 pm

Anybody online at that time and how was it running? Smooth I hope.

It would have been 49 but I was out last evening!

Has anyone else noticed that Anthracite Coal Forum at the top of each page is misspelled as "Antharcite Coal Forum"

Just curious....

Chris

It was running just fine last night. I think it was faster than the old forum was for me but I'm on 5 mb a second cable however.

europachris wrote:Has anyone else noticed that Anthracite Coal Forum at the top of each page is misspelled as "Antharcite Coal Forum"

Just curious....

Chris

Now that you pointed it out. I'll bet it's fixed soon.

jpen1 wrote:It was running just fine last night. I think it was faster than the old forum was for me but I'm on 5 mb a second cable however. :)

Server side this software is much faster than the older version by quite a bit.

phpBB1.4.x (vanilla) = index.php in ~0.070 seconds
phpBB2.0.0-ish (without template cache) => index.php in ~0.500 seconds
phpBB2.0.5-ish (with template cache) => index.php in ~0.250 seconds
phpBB3.0 CVS (vanilla) => index in ~0.080 seconds
phpBB3.0 CVS (with eAccelerator) => index.php in ~0.016 seconds

Dual Pentium III-S 1.26 GHz, 1.5GiB RAM & 2x 60GB HDDs in RAID1

That's some benchmarking done on it about a year ago by one of the developers for page generation times, I don't have eAccelerator active at the moment either.

Client side it will be much faster as well, With the new server I'm able to turn on gzip which compresses the pages server side before being sent to the user, for example the css file is about 65K without gzip and about 10k with gzip. Won't make any difference if you're on cable but that's like 4 or 5 seconds shaved off if you're on 56k. I couldn't use that on other server.

It's also designed to scale, as more people use it the resources needed to process pages per request decreases. It caches pages, for example suppose you look at someones profile. This page will then be cached as a file. If someone else requests that page it will pull the file out of the cache instead of reprocessing it unless something has been edited by the person who's profile it is. It does this for nearly every page or even for components of page.

I've made some tweaks myself too, this is designed for the masses. I've already cut out about 30k from the base CSS file...

europachris wrote:Has anyone else noticed that Anthracite Coal Forum at the top of each page is misspelled as "Antharcite Coal Forum"

Just curious....

Chris

"What you talking about Willis" ............

Just found out that by clicking on "Who's Online" I can see where they are on the forum....

Actually that's standard feature on last forum too.

I just never noticed it before today!

Not sure yet what caused the down time except I know it wasn't me...

Anyhow for future reference for you addicts you can check the server status here:
http://www.jaguarpc.com/support/status.php

We're on exarkun.nocdirect.com , we don't get all the extra pretty lights because we're special.

If it does go down for a long period you can get updates here:
http://www.jaguarpc.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=14

No specific information but they said they had to reboot the server.... I'll tell you one thing this company is very fast with customer support.