After consulting with my webhost's tech support people, it would appear that the periodic performance issues on the board are due to intermittent traffic surges on the shared database server where the posts are being stored. I'm not sure whether they are DOS attacks yet, but they don't appear to be targeting my site in particular. They've given me the OK to shift the database to a different server, which will hopefully solve those period lagging problems people have been having.
I plan to do this early tomorrow morning (around 7:30-8:00am EST). Hopefully, this will neutralize the problem.
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Board performance issues
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But now, you shall witnesss ... its dismemberment!
"This is what happens when you use trivia napkins for research material"- Sea Skimmer on "Pearl Harbour".
"Do you work out? Your hands are so strong! Especially the right one!"- spoken to Bud Bundy
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AdmiralKanos
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Board back up!
We're up and running again, on a new database server with (supposedly) lower traffic. Hopefully the performance issues should cease.
For a time, I considered sparing your wretched little planet Cybertron.
But now, you shall witnesss ... its dismemberment!
"This is what happens when you use trivia napkins for research material"- Sea Skimmer on "Pearl Harbour".
"Do you work out? Your hands are so strong! Especially the right one!"- spoken to Bud Bundy
But now, you shall witnesss ... its dismemberment!
"This is what happens when you use trivia napkins for research material"- Sea Skimmer on "Pearl Harbour".
"Do you work out? Your hands are so strong! Especially the right one!"- spoken to Bud Bundy
they could have simply edited a line in php.ini.....but hey if thats what you want....
AND no its not a DOS attack. There saved you the trouble of studing traffic logs.
AND no its not a DOS attack. There saved you the trouble of studing traffic logs.
The Biblical God is more evil than any Nazi who ever lived, and Satan is arguably the hero of the Bible. -- Darth Wong, Self Proffessed Biblical Scholar
I reviewed the phpBB source code to look for places to modify for speed, it looks well coded, though there are some arctectual issues.
what you might want to try, is that there should be a database "persistancy option" make sure thats selected and saved. That should clear up any problems you are running into with connectins overfilling whne too many requests are taken in.
what you might want to try, is that there should be a database "persistancy option" make sure thats selected and saved. That should clear up any problems you are running into with connectins overfilling whne too many requests are taken in.
The Biblical God is more evil than any Nazi who ever lived, and Satan is arguably the hero of the Bible. -- Darth Wong, Self Proffessed Biblical Scholar