Classic self-hosted technical help
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Does anyone have a specialized my.cnf settings that they tinkered with? Right now, I have a board with 100,00+ members with 1.8M posts. I'm currently on a dedicated server Intel Xeon E3-1240V2, 16 Gigs of Ram, dual 1TB drives. I'm using Sphinx as my search engine (v 2.0.4). I'm just trying to tinker my settings and I'm curious what others had with similar hardware / board sizes. Thanks, Worthy
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Hey guy's my web developer recently passed away and I'm trying to learn as much as I can. But my website was recently switched to a different server and my CDN he had in place is gone. I know its alot to ask but would anyone be kind enough to add me on skype and help me figure out how to set this up i've read many guides but im seriously clueless. My skype is Helix.Seven ... I hope someone can help me :c My forums are http://xgnclan.org as you can see teh images take forever to load... please get back to me soon. -Cory
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I've set up a copy of our large board (5.7 GB) on a local Windows 7 machine for testing purposes, with a Test Install license. Everything appears to be working fine, but one: whenever I try to display a forum, or message in a forum, I get the dreaded "Driver Error" message, and returning to the index does work, fortunately. Literally everything else does work fine, Members, Calendar, Downloads, Blogs, Tracker, Gallery, you name it, it works just fine. ACP also works just fine. I have tried everything by now, tweaking my.ini, php.ini, htppd.conf, nothing, other than that occasionally the ACP stopped working as well, due to MySQL connection problems when I set b…
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For those who are interested, I have made available a sphinx.conf that uses ranged queries. If you are using MyIsam mysql tables and find that you are getting table locks when rebuilding Sphinx every night, this config should help alleviate these issues. After I upgraded to version 3.4.2 from 3.1.4, my server was getting table locks doing the nightly rebuild. I hired Percona, a well respected MySQL support company, to resolve this issue and they suggested ranged queries in the Sphinx rebuild process. This has reduced the table locks on my server, though the DB server will run slowly while performing the index. I offered this file to Matt and Brandon to include in …
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I've honestly never dealt with setitng max expires and that stuff with htaccess and wondering how you guys handle it, due to some issues with directadmin and nginx (yeah I am still using a panel....) I had to slide back to apache. in my case I think setting the max expires/cahce stuff would be easier through htaccess vs global apache templates.
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Good Server: I had a macmini colocation server which gave me no problems uploading files to ip.Downloads of any size. Bad Server: I switch to 1&1 Dynamic Cloud Server (latest CentOS 64bit with Plesk 11) and every upload fails even few MB. I was told it may be a problem with tmp folder or some partitioning issue. But no one has been able to help me solve. Anyone have insight?
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after many years with Invision as our forum's host, my small forum is reaching a point where the current offering is not ideal, and wanted to know if any of you guys can personally recommend other hosts, as well as things to look for when shopping around (needed support, etc)? This the list of my current criteria: 24 hour tech support (at least for emergencies like downtime/hacking etc) Automatic backups, ideally every 24-48 hours (i'd assume this was a standard, but found out otherwise years back) Stability - we don't usually run more than say 10-15 active members tops (double that with search engine bots/etc) but i definitely don't want anything that'd struggle wit…
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I converted my community from vbulletin 4.2 but I faced very serious character problem and I don't know how to handle it because my database is large (600 mb) can you help me to fix this issue?
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I am moving from one 2010 Mac Pro to a brand spanking new Mac Pro (quad, 32gbs of ram, 20 tb's of disk space). Old machine is running 10.6.8 server, new is running 10.8 server. These are physically located in my office, I have a t1 line feeding them bandwidth. I have prepped the new server, all apache mods that were running on the old machine are running on the new machine, php is the same version, Mysql is the same version. I have copied over the ip.board subdirectory to the document root folder, and fixed whatever permissions errors I had. Exported the mysql database, then imported it into the new box. Initially I could not log in at all, eventually …
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Hello i am using now shared hosting , i want to go for vps, which plan will good for me CPU 0.57 GHZ RAM 384 MB Disk Space 10 GB Bandwidth 250 GB CPU 0.85 GHZ RAM 576 MB Disk Space 22 GB Bandwidth 375 GB CPU 1.13 GHZ RAM 768 MB Disk Space 30 GB Bandwidth 500 GB and which control planel Plesk + VZ or cpanel
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Hello, For those who can connect using ssh, what is you time to first byte? Please show the average for 3 runs. curl -o /dev/null -w "Connect: %{time_connect} TTFB: %{time_starttransfer} Total time: %{time_total} n" http://inserturl.here Mine is: 0,362 user@host:~$ curl -o /dev/null -w "Connect: %{time_connect} TTFB: %{time_starttransfer} Total time: %{time_total} n" http://www.myboardurl.tld % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 195k 0 195k 0 0 450k 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 452k Connect: 0.006 TTFB: 0.397 Total time…
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Has anybody profiled the getForumList function before? We have around 1200 forums, here are the speed stats getForumList function itself is taking 2.3 seconds (The loop process itself is taking 1.6s) array merge for $this->registry->permissions->parse is loading unnecessarily (any of the converted perm string is not referenced, all mapped dynamically) Seo name is added while creating the forum, why are we adding it again? $f['name_seo'] = IPSText::makeSeoTitle( $f['name'] ); $fr['description'] => is already present in array f getForumsList is the common function and being called from everywhere irrespective of fields required …
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Hello Yesterday i start to configure nginx with php-fpm and i`m having some hard time making the forum working properly. Main problems are threads,topics,gallery,blog and other pages where the web server found them as 404 error. The only page who does working is the index. Assuming one of the problem it may be regarding apache directives which i have added to nginx conf file reading from many other tutorials but one thing i do not found in those tutorials : the structure of the files from the disk. Im using this structure : /var/www/<domain name>/<php and html files> PS: The php it does working, theres no problem regarding this aspect. Could anybody point m…
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Need some serious help with server migration. My host has moved me to a new server and they don't seem to be able to migrate my existing forums properly. He sounds like the person I need for this particular job. Thanks in advance.for any contact info. Carey
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My site (linked in my signature) was pushing up on resource limits on my current shared hosting during the peak for the site (towards the end of the football season for the club my site is about). I expect we could see potentially double the amount of people on the site by the end of the year, so I'm hoping to requisition the resources for this level of peak load. We've crashed in the past on the original host I was on (which forces a move to my current host) and I want to avoid any crash happening as we're sponsored and wouldn't want to cause issues with them or lose potential ad revenue. Our CPU usage has always been high (on a shared 'VIP' hosting with shares i…
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Hi, I'm in trouble with a site that has a troyan attack I have no idea what to do, what not to tod and how to do, or not do it, so i'll have to pay somebody to do it. Is there anybody around with some spare time, and that wouldn't mind doing it for some $ (hopefully not too much?)
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How do you safely move your database/ipb board from 1 domain to the other?
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Hello How to optimize my forum? i am running hostgator shared hosting business Thanks
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Hi all, Let me try and quickly give you some background information first. At the beginning of the year I bought an existing domain for which I already had acquired its database, and other rights. It was still running 3.1.2, in a non-standard setup. I managed to get this working under 3.1.4, with as ultimate aim to move it to 3.4.4, etc., and continue from there. However, in order to do so I need not only to have everything working the way it should, which I am quite capable to do, but I also need it to work in a test environment, for testing and developing new products. I travel a lot for work and don't have always access to the internet as a result, but will…
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Im running into problems after problems :sad: and the knownhost support aint really helping much Im useing Knownhost server, I have all the details im able to log into my cpanel but cant into firezilla ftp So if any one would be kind to help fully setup my cpanel, ftp, install my ipb forum I would be so grateful, im a newb at this stuff but i really wanna run my own site. i already purchased everything (Gotta start off somewhere to learn :smile: ) I know its a lot to ask of but please i need help
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http://cpxstack.sysally.net/ came across this last night and decided to try it, still testing/learning but so far extremely simple to install and use. I like that site owner can choose the method to use.
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looking at a change from cpanel (price is good on it LOL ) so am testing, need to make sure its easy to work with for the friends/family I host some stuff for.
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Hey Guys, I hope I can post this here. I recently within the last 6 months purchased a dedicated server from, volumedrive.com. I am sure as you are all aware, there setup time is ridiculously long, it took actually 3 weeks of constant emailing them to get it setup. After alot of patience, needless to say, I was very impressed with the hardware. It was very fast at handling the traffic I had. After 6 months of periodic, down time due to something to do with there uplink, I declined to continue further with there service. I feel its pretty bad when you attempt to go to there site and its down as well as yours. Anyways, there control panel on there site, is horrible. There…
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So I followed this https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Subversion, set it up, I can checkout and commit fine. However I'm wondering why there are no Icon overlays (green checks/red checks) over the files I have changed and not changed. I wanted to ask if there was something I've possibly missed during the setup that could have caused this? Is it possible something I've done during the setup could have stopped this from happening? I'm 99% sure its not the svn client I'm using on windows as it works for GIT fine. Appreciate any pointers. Edit: WHY does this always happen. Post it, and find the problem. It was client side..needed fixed drives selected in …
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I run a fairly large board, 2.6 million posts, > 300,000 unique visits per month, 10 GB or more bandwidth usage per day, up to 5000 users per hour so far, occasionally crazy amounts of spam bots too. We upgraded from 3.1.4 to 3.4.4 recently, and Invision helped us with that, fortunately. We seem to have a bit of a problem with performance now, however, whereas it was mostly ok before. Especially writing to the database appears to be incredibly slow. I tuned the performance of the board myself for 3.0.x and 3.1.x to good effect, and it served us well. The same settings do not help with IPB 3.4.4 however. I made a few changes, and initial loads seem to be fas…
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