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My demo board... 1 user online, ME, no guests... 5 topics, 3 members and the stock IP.Content homepage with parse articles replaced with a topic feed block... My only guess here is that the server is overcrowded... This is a very regular occurance on both this board and another one hosted with a seperate company... So maybe it's an optimization issue on my part w/ the board, even though the optimation settings are STOCK... I'm having identical issues on two of my boards... Both on shared hosting... You click the logo, and it takes 10 seconds before the site even thinks about going to the home page... Then it takes another 10 to load the page so you can actually do s…
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Just bought IPB, and glad I did best forum software now I plan to use a VPS So I'm trying to run a community and I'm not familar with VPS's if anyone can link me a list of guides that I can read on how to host IPB on my vps I would really appreciate it. The VPS i'm looking to get is this.. Disk Storage Space: 300GB Guaranteed Physical Memory: 6 GB Bandwidth per month : 2tb Burst memory limit: 10 GB Unique Dedicated IP Addresses : 2 Free Virtualization Platform: OpenVZ Processor: 6000 MHZ Price : $59.99/month It's using linux. A friend told me to use kloxo panel and I can host IPB; can anyone point me to the right direction? ( List me guides and such tip…
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I am using IP hosting and trying to diagnose my site is using so many resources and getting an account limited message. I have been averaging 20-30 guests online and a few logged in members. I tried turning on performance mode this evening and it went down a bit but it is already coming back up. Is it even possible to use IPD on a shared hosting plan - even with IP? For the most part it has been fine but the last few months have been typical low traffic for my site. Now the traffic is starting to pick-up it is using a ton of resources. Is there any way to check to see what is causing this?
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I have a problem with database imports, so far I've tested this behaviour on 3 machines, one is our hosting provider. This ipb database is an upgrade from ipb2.3 with fixed special characters (sed tool), so it is in pure utf-8 format. The thing is that if I use different export / import tools, database size differs on import - mostly bf_message_posts and ibf_posts tables size vary, since they are biggest. This various sizes were observed when (I alway use mysql console tool for db import): - if I export database via phpmyadmin and reimport it via mysql tool, size goes over 500MiB - if I export database via mysqldump and reimport it via mysql tool, size stays the same (a…
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Hello, Recently I have installed nginx and everything seems to work fine except rewrite rulles. Currently my config looks like : location / { root /home/zzz/www; index index.html index.php; try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$uri&$args; } location ~ .php$ { root /home/zzz/www; set $script $uri; set $path_info ""; if ($uri ~ "^(.+.php)(/.+)") { set $script $1; set $path_info $2; } include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params; fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000; fastcgi_index index.php; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$script; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $script; fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $path_info; } Forums, top…
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Anyone can help with a guide how to set up a SMTP server on Windows Server 2008, and connect it to IP.Board?
Last reply by Makoto, -
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Well I have had issues since the 17th of July when our server died. We were told we would get a new server and it would be built within 12 hours and a previous backup from the night before would be dropped down and restored and all would be ok. 12 hours later, site was up with errors all over the place, the new server had double the RAM as previous (16GB) and 2 x new 10,000 RPM drives. Since the 17th we have had nothing but ISSUES. Server loads over 20, and the site going offline. Apache has been recompiled and restored more than 20 times and it was decided by our hosting company that possibly the backup restores was corrupt and they wanted to try again. I even had …
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I'm creating this thread for us to develop a more thought out to the CDN+ Minify Problems. I just want to forward this saying I'm learning as I go along here with CDN's so if anything I write is incorrect please IPB Staff or members here let me know and I can update it. CDN Problems with Minify So lets address the 2 primary problems that we can have with CDN's [*]Purging a QueryString safely calls for versioning 1) AntiCache Header/Query String When IPBoard applys minify to css/js it takes all the seperate files and combines them into 3 files a css "bucket" and 2 js "buckets". By Default they will look something like this: [*]AntiCache Header/Query String on min…
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I created a tiny PHP script which I intended to run through shell to backup my DB. What impressed me is that the script works fine running it from a browser as well. So by using it, at any time, I have within seconds a dump of my DB. <?php $command = "mysqldump -u<db_username> -p<db_password> <db_name> | gzip > backupDB_" . date( "H:i:s_d-m-Y" ) . ".sql.gz"; system( $command ); ?> :D
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due to php 5.4 issues with some stuff I want to use looks like I will need to run 5.4 and 5.3 on directadmin server. just wondering if anyone here does it. would need to be php 5.4 with fcgi (so I can use APC) for domain and php 5.3 fir subdomain for the video script. there are no other peoples sites on server, just some dns stuff for friends, so thats not an issue.
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Hi All - I'm currently in the process of converting a large forum over to IPB, as well as a complete redevelopment of the main site. At this time, we're using git for pretty much everything, the current forums (SMF), the main site, git access, server configs, etc. You name and it is probably under revision control. I have a few questions for those that might have their current system under a VCS, or have multiple developers working on the site/forums at once: I think that is it for now. I guess I'm mainly just looking for an overview on how others have done it in the past. :) [*]What files are under the VCS? Obviously cache files and settings files (a distributio…
Last reply by MisterPhilip, -
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Ok I got my webhost to install Xcache. Now I have read contradicting things on this forum. 1. IPB will utilize it automatically. or 2. You have to add a line in conf_global.php right after the <?php $INFO['use_xcache'] = 1; Now adding the code left my site a bunch of error messages straight down the page. So what do I need to do to make it work optimally?
Last reply by Lab Rats Rule, -
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Hello. All of this has been asked a million times, and I have gone through and read a great deal on all of it. But most of the questions about cleaning up your server and making it run faster or very advanced. These seem to be brought about by problems people have. I really don't have any problems and am just looking for a few tips to clean my server up (to maximize space) and to maybe speed it up if possible. Nothing at all fancy, just some little tricks that many people might overlook. If you have any, I would greatly appreciate hearing them. Thanks guys.
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If you would like to be able to change the charset of your database tables to something else here is the code <?php // your connection mysql_connect("localhost","DBUser","DBPass"); mysql_select_db("Your Databse Name"); // convert code $res = mysql_query("SHOW TABLES"); while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($res)) { foreach ($row as $key => $table) { mysql_query("ALTER TABLE " . $table . " CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci"); echo $key . " => " . $table . " CONVERTED<br />"; } } ?> Make a file called tables.php or something along the line of a php file, and put it in your root folder. Copy the …
Last reply by Christian M., -
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Hi everyone, I am building a IPB forum install that can provide failover capabilities, so I have a 2-node setup behind a load balancer. However, I find that IPB uses the filesystem is different ways, but I haven't enumerated them all. First, the cache is on the filesystem. Am I right to think that switching over to Memcached would remove all files from being created in <install_dir>/cache? Second, the uploads directory is local to the server. I was thinking that I could either restrict uploads all together, or create an NFS share that both servers can use to store uploads. Third, hooks. They are installed via XML but they get written to the <install_d…
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Hi, Is there a way to import just one section of your table (Members table) into your forums in less than a hour? I'm copying and pasting each query which is like 10k members which is going to take me a while. I'm sure there is a program out there. There is also 500k posts I have to do and that's going to be a pain to copy/paste.
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Hello, Is it possible to make the members who don't come from 192.168.0.0 to be in one group? Or is it possible to make the members who don't come from 192.168.0.0 to input password to access the board? Thanks.
Last reply by Grumpy, -
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I recently had Gary. (from this community) optimize my servers and it was the best thing i have ever done for my online business. We had many issues with high load, high RAM usage and slower than average page loads. We have a few sites running on two server and i was mostly looking for a better/faster setup for my large ipboard community. Under high traffic our servers which are very powerful top notch systems were almost overloading and it was time to look for a solution instead of spending even more on hardware. To give you an idea of our loads and ram usage at off peak times we were using between 0.6 - 1.1 and 50% RAM. At peak times we were seeing loads as high as 4.0-…
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Hello, I'm trying to move my site to a different hosting provider and I stuck at OS selection. Currently I'm using CentOS 6.3 with cPanel WHM and I'm not happy with that since CentOS has lot of known issues and fixes are coming very late. The hosting provider suggested me to go with RHEL v6.3 for new server deployment. Can anyone let me know if your suggestions and possible experience regarding RHEL. (I've to pay an additional $20 for RHEL!) Any further help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Has anyone tried the the suite with php 5.4?
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I tried upgrading my forum to the latest version. Let's just say the upgrade did not work properly and I was told by IPS that it would be easier to just restore a previous backup then try to salvage everything. Only issue is the last backup was from back in March (I did a backup today, but it ended up being corrupted as well.) Is there anybody here who would be willing to try to fix the site? I'm willing to pay if somebody if they can try to salvage it and get the site working properly. Site has 400,000~ posts and 11,000 members so it's a decent sized database. Please let me know.
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just fyi, this bug hit me http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=5816 had to boot to older kernel 2.6.32-220.23.1.el6.x86_64
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Hello, Kindly would you guys help me optimize my php.ini file. Ever since I started my website every trouble I had with the hosting server was because php.ini file missing something IPB needed. With time I added what was need as I come across a wall with IPB. To avoid future problem and to give IPB better performance could you guys help me please add needed codes or adjustments to my php.ini Here is what I have: memory_limit = 256M upload_max_filesize = 500M post_max_size = 500M safe_mode = off If you could provide me with your own php.ini settings or tell me what can I add to improve. Ty very much.
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I've just noticed that although the site seems to run pretty much OK, sometimes when I'm updating or responding to a topic or download, etc, it can take a while for the reply to go through - the page just sits there and does nothing for a short while - sometimes the reply doesn't even go through and I have to re-submit it again. I took a look at the slow queries log and have noted them all for today underneath. If anyone can advise what could be happening here I'd really appreciate it. I've also pasted the output for the mysql tuner just in case anyone is able to spot anything there also .... Thanks in advance :) Marko -------- General Statistics -----------…
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# The MySQL database server configuration file. # # You can copy this to one of: # - "/etc/mysql/my.cnf" to set global options, # - "~/.my.cnf" to set user-specific options. # # One can use all long options that the program supports. # Run program with --help to get a list of available options and with # --print-defaults to see which it would actually understand and use. # # For explanations see # http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/server-system-variables.html # This will be passed to all mysql clients # It has been reported that passwords should be enclosed with ticks/quotes # escpecially if they contain "#" chars... # Remember to edit /etc/mysql/debian.cnf…
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