StarDestroyer.Net BBS

It goes down from time to time, causing those god damned double, or even
TRIPLE posts.......

Are hitting the submit button more that once? Even when it goes down, your post will go through. I found out the hard way.

Frank Hipper wrote:Are hitting the submit button more that once? Even when it goes down, your post will go through. I found out the hard way.

I actually had it double post on me yesterday and I only hit the button once. I had hit submit and then it hung there for so long that I just closed my browser, logged off and went to work. When I checked the thread today I had posted the same message twice. I was a little suprised.

Sometimes it's because the board's servers slow down and it causes a lapse, and when that happens, people sometimes click "Submit" again when the request already went through. On the other hand, the request doesn't always go through the first time.

It is annoying, just a couple of weeks ago I did that on SB.com and had four threads on the same topic.

Tsyroc wrote:

Frank Hipper wrote:Are hitting the submit button more that once? Even when it goes down, your post will go through. I found out the hard way.

I actually had it double post on me yesterday and I only hit the button once. I had hit submit and then it hung there for so long that I just closed my browser, logged off and went to work. When I checked the thread today I had posted the same message twice. I was a little suprised.

I'll get "website not responding", I close the browser, reopen it, and it will not show my post as being most recent, I will view the most recent post, and mine is there. Don't ask me, I don't know, but it works every time.

Frank Hipper wrote:Are hitting the submit button more that once? Even when it goes down, your post will go through. I found out the hard way.

Same thing for me now i push once and i wait.

A couple of double posts have happened to me, too, so now I act more cautious with the submit button.

One way is to click submit once, then after a while of waiting, going back to the last page in the thread and pressing refresh. It'll show it there, and if it isn't, just go forward and press submit again.

I'm looking into new servers, for whatever that's worth.

Darth Wong wrote:I'm looking into new servers, for whatever that's worth.

Didn't you say it had something to do with CPU-usage limiting? It kinda stopped double-posting after you turned GZIP compression off..

I actually moved it to a different interim server. The problem is shared resources: there are other websites on this server, and some of them run all sorts of Perl and CGI scripts which eat up huge amounts of CPU power. Database engines are generally optimized very thoroughly, but homemade Perl scripts can be as shitty and resource-hungry as their author wants them to be. There was one guy on the server who had a Site Search script that literally grepped through the whole website, and when it ran (for several minutes) the server was so slow that it felt as if it was under a DOS attack.

I've had it double post on me several times, on different occassions, when I know I only hit the submit button once...

Darth Wong wrote:I actually moved it to a different interim server. The problem is shared resources: there are other websites on this server, and some of them run all sorts of Perl and CGI scripts which eat up huge amounts of CPU power. Database engines are generally optimized very thoroughly, but homemade Perl scripts can be as shitty and resource-hungry as their author wants them to be. There was one guy on the server who had a Site Search script that literally grepped through the whole website, and when it ran (for several minutes) the server was so slow that it felt as if it was under a DOS attack.

AGGHHH! Why can't Perl/CGI Optimization be Required Course Material in web design class???! EGAD!

I'm getting swarms of "Invalid Session" notices

Sea Skimmer wrote:I'm getting swarms of "Invalid Session" notices

That would be totally unrelated to any server overload issues, and probably has something to do with a rotating-IP proxy server, or bad cookies.

At times, the board gets screwy, and I get this message that says "Couldn't connect ot the database". Other times, it gets slow, causing me to double post occasionally (That's probably my computer, though).

Hell i had a quad post once. If we pay you money through paypal can we have a better server. On that point how much of a donation do you require if i was to want my own custom title?

Rather than paying money for a custom title, would it be possible to add something like "SD.net Supporter" beneath every username should they decide to donate cash.

EZBoard does this with an icon if a user pays money to support them, ArsTechnica says "et Subscriptor" if a user subscribes to Ars.

Darth Pounder wrote:Hell i had a quad post once. If we pay you money through paypal can we have a better server. On that point how much of a donation do you require if i was to want my own custom title?

Come on now, we know Mike Won't sink that low...

Mike: Will $50 do?