We’re back but still not 100%

[John-W-WI]

Looks like the update broke Tapatalk.

I'm on Tapatalk now, hopefully this post shows up!

Sent from my SM-G975U using Tapatalk

 

[John-W-WI]

Yep, it seems to be working now.

Sent from my SM-G975U using Tapatalk

 

[Tree Spud]

I lost the site earlier on my laptop at home earlier today, back up now.

 

[Tree Spud]

Starting to experience issues again. Site will not let me "stay logged in" even if I check the box. Each time I open the site i have to log in.

I was logged in and responding to a thread and I could not post on the thread until I logged back in.

 

[Bill]

Starting to experience issues again. Site will not let me "stay logged in" even if I check the box. Each time I open the site i have to log in.

I was logged in and responding to a thread and I could not post on the thread until I logged back in.

That was happening to me on iPhone. Wonder if it’s a glitch in the new software. I’ll check out their forums and see if it’s a complaint on other forums. Also I get that same alert flash when I load or reload a page. Definitely a hiccup but it doesn’t seem to hurt anything.

 

[Bill]

I think I fixed this. Let me know if it happens again. May have to clear your history and log back on one more time.

Starting to experience issues again. Site will not let me "stay logged in" even if I check the box. Each time I open the site i have to log in.

I was logged in and responding to a thread and I could not post on the thread until I logged back in.

 

[Troubles Trees]

I honestly have no idea what the jargon is and what YoderJack said on page 2 sounded like another language but I just wanted to say ---->> THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR ALL YOU GUYS DO TO KEEP THIS SITE UP AND RUNNING!!!!!!
Love this forum!!

 

[Tree Spud]

I think I fixed this. Let me know it happens again. May have to clear your history and log back on one more time.

Bill...seems to be working now, nice work !

 

[TreeDaddy]

That is not the issue. That only impacts the initial access to the site. Once your browser has the IP address from the DNS, it caches it. So, subsequent accesses don't require a DNS visit until the cache expires and is refreshed.

I'm guessing there is and issue is from the time the server gets the request until if processes it and updates the page. Several possibilities, but I would suspect the database. I not familiar with Xenforo, but most canned forums access a separate database. It could be on MySQL, MSSQL, or some other DB. I wonder if they moved the DB to a different server with the move.

I played around with several options when testing thigs a while back. It seemed that with the shared hosting, they used a separate database optimized server for the databases. It was a different IP address from the web server. When I looked at some of their virtual server plans, the DB is running on the same virtual server as the web server. So, folks think, the less expensive shared plan worked fine, so the more expensive virtual server has more resources than the tiny slice I was getting on the shared server, so my web site will be faster. They forget the SQL server is now running on the same resources. I'm not sure about godaddy, but you can use the DB optimized server with most services but at an additional cost.

One reason I moved mine to my home PC rather than a virtual server is that the cost of resources is a fraction of renting them. There is a limitation of 10 simultaneous users so it would not work for a public forum. I'm just running using an SQL server on my PC, but I'm running solid state disks. Plenty fast for my purposes. I also have FIOS but only 50/50 service which is fine for me. It is a technical violation of the FIOS TOS, but my number of users is so small it is under the radar. The only issue is that a few times a year when their servers go down they rotate my IP address. I have code that notifies me when this happens and I have to go update the DNS. This would not work well for a public site.

You can get a business account that includes a fixed IP. I was going to look into that, but we are retiring and moving soon. It is not FIOS, but the local power company is running fiber next year to the retirement property. I'll probably get a business account there.

The reason I mention this is that there may be another cheap option to consider. That is continuing to use the virtual server for the web server but moving the DB to a home PC. It would require a high speed (fiber) internet connection and probably a business account. You would host the database on that machine using an SQL Server. Because only the webserver would access the DB, it could be hosted on Windows 10. Almost any modern PC with a solid state disk for the system and one for the DB would be more power than you would ever need for a forum DB.

Just food for thought...

Thanks,

Jack

Jack,

I lost my appetite

thanks,

bill

 

[DJN]

Boy, it’s still been super slow for me all week on both my home computer as well as phone (using browser, not tapatalk). But I’ll take it! Better than not having it. I felt like Tyrone Biggums while the site was down


“Y’all got anymore of those habitat forums I could use??”
Thank you to everyone that worked to get it back up and going.

 

[goatman]

My end is still super slow. On a PC.

 

[fishin coyote]

Took almost 2 minutes for this page to load from the general section page. I’m on my ipad and haven’t cleared my history since the site came back up.

 

[Bill]

Yeah server went down for some time again today. Host said they had something set wrong.
John’s working on updating things in the background to get the speed back.

 

[yoderjac]

Yeah server went down for some time again today. Host said they had something set wrong.
John’s working on updating things in the background to get the speed back.

Very slow for me since the crash.

 

[John-W-WI]

Still slow here.... Honestly no idea why. I've updated everything I can find

Tomorrow is another day, hang in there guys. Sorry this has taken so long.

-John

 

[Tree Spud]

Still slow here.... Honestly no idea why. I've updated everything I can find

Tomorrow is another day, hang in there guys. Sorry this has taken so long.

-John

We will ... we just all need a "schlitz 32 ounce malt liquor" in a bag ... was gettin shakes there ...

 

[Bill]

We’ll fix it. Even if I have to get a T1 in my house.
That dates me Jack. Back in the a day a T1 line was all the rage. Probably wouldn’t run a kids game today....

 

[scott44]

It's a lot better than it's been the last couple days, thanks for everything! From laptop.

 

[John-W-WI]

Thanks Scott, I'm glad it's better. I'm still pretty unhappy with it. We aren't done, and as Bill said, we'll get it. We just aren't going to stop trying until it's what it should be. And it's far from what it should be right now.

-John

 

[yoderjac]

We’ll fix it. Even if I have to get a T1 in my house.
That dates me Jack. Back in the a day a T1 line was all the rage. Probably wouldn’t run a kids game today....

T1..T3..OC3...OC10...