Server Slowdown

[Nitz]

Many people will notice a downtime or slowdown here at GP. Apparently, our hosting has some maintaince issues. So, we may have this problem for this week and hopefully it's solved by next week.

SEVER MAINT NOTICE



We Will be replacing the Hardrives & rebuilding the Raid Aray on our RS1 Server


Reason: One of the Drives has sector damage and we are taking the time to build a larger aray with faster Hard drives


Maint Window: Feb 14 2009 - Feb 23 2009 (or until complete):


Approximate: down time: None ( there may be some IP latencey as we cut the servers IP's over to our backup server ) please make a note of it
Thank You

I personally will be doing a maintenance check on our forum soon to speed things up and also possible delete older threads. We have tons of old spammy threads.

 

[Lalaith]

Yeah, I noticed. There are certain hours when it goes down. But it doesn't take long to be up again. Funny because it's usually when I just got online or in the morning.

 

[Nitz]

Yeah, I noticed. There are certain hours when it goes down. But it doesn't take long to be up again. Funny because it's usually when I just got online or in the morning.

yep, around that time roughly.

I hope it gets fixed soon, because I've never had issues with this server. Once in awhile hardware will fail and that's the way it goes. Luckly, this hosting provider is SMART and has a brain to know you NEED a backup hard drive in case the main ones dies.

Our last host was run by idiots...

 

[Lalaith]

Yeah, cause of them we lost lots of stuff, I still haven't recovered from that. Got me so mad!!

 

[The Legendary Saviour]

I noticed it has been really bad at some point.
Lately I havent experienced any problems though.

 

[Nitz]

ya, the last week has been great. I think the got a new hard drive and fixed everything up. Hopefully, things stay well.

It's a issue that will occur almost with any host. Hardware dies.... and especially Hard drives... but thankfully SOME awesome hosts have backup drives! So you don't lose all your information.

 

[The Legendary Saviour]

Is it just me or the server being slightly slow again these days?

 

[Guerilla]

u get haxor! I dl all db now then starts new Gamerz-Place my own!

FSDD 4 life!



APRIL FOOLS!!!!!

 

[Sergeant Dreamer]

If you delete the old posts, will some members loose some of their post count?

 

[Nitz]

If you delete the old posts, will some members loose some of their post count?

If old posts are deleted or ANY post for that matter. Then yes, post counts shoot down. HOWEVER, you can manually ADD post counts or Minus them from users...

 

[Sergeant Dreamer]

Whoa, that sounds cool. So that thing was April Fools? Still no VIP?

 

[Nitz]

Whoa, that sounds cool. So that thing was April Fools? Still no VIP?

Well the VIP was an unattended joke LOL. I didn't think the board would throw me or TLS into VIP status after I demoted us both

But, I am thinking of opening the VIP... I think the bigger problem is listing what someone needs to be VIP.. eg.. posts/rep/activity.. In the past the problem we had is people were posting a lot and becoming VIP with spammy posts... so we need some GOOD guidelines I think for VIP status.

 

[Sergeant Dreamer]

Hmmm, 300 or more posts and 80% or so activity??

 

[Nitz]

Hmmm, 300 or more posts and 80% or so activity??

there is no "activity" feature. It's based off of a "set" number of rules. eg. posts/rep etc..

300 is WAY to low. I think we had it to 700 or 1000 before... because we just have an overload of VIP members with 250posts .

 

[Hyuuga Neji]

i beleive at first vip was 1000
and i'd be there right now if my posts weren't set back like 3 or 4 times -.-
but i suppose it just gives me something to work for
but should we start a new thread about this? we're kindof in an off topic place for this lol

 

[Sergeant Dreamer]

Yeah, that would be a good idea.

 

[JaylinMills]

Server slowdown problems? If you, like me, are a small, independent online publisher, losing consistent traffic while knowing that the cause is not your readers taking off to other better destinations can be as frustrating as trying to hold water with your hands.