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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?
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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 …
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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.
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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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Hello, That's my pleasure to recomend Gary as a support person for one my largest communities on IPB. The goal was to stabilize mysql + apache2 configuration on dedicated server : http://www.hetzner.d...rootserver/ex10 So far server seems to be very stable and I hope that we will cooperate with Gary everytime when I get problem. All were documented, solved and configured perfectly. Additionally .... since english is not my native language, Gary kept calm and patient trough whole conversation ;) Thanks Gary :smile: To contact Gary on msn type : Gary <linuxgary@live.com> Best Regards :D
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been a bit since I messed with memcache so I trying to re-learn some stuff. using it on single server, its enabled in global_conf file (and apc is NOT listed in global_conf) and its running and working. the problem I have is file uploads fail. I have not yet found out if its happening at specific filesize and have not found any error logs yet. remove it from global_conf and it all works fine. I cannot, yet, find any info on how memcache interacts with file uploads but there has to be something. anyone have any quick pointers? system is centos 6.2 64, directadmin, php 5.4.4, apache 2.4.2.
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Our site has been growing by leaps and bounds. We are around 500,000 posts and we have around 200 online users almost at all times. Our current host is shaking in the knees and is so slow because we can't handle the load. We're on a dedicated VPS with 4 cores 3gb of ram. We're only using around 120gb of bandwidth and our database is 1.5gb on cPanel/WHM. How are you guys hosting your sites? What magic are you doing? We're struggling trying to find an affordable option. Please tell me how you do this and whom you use. We're a group of role-players whom like to discuss it. Our members are extremely loyal and we really want to make our site stable. So, please, recommendat…
Last reply by Dmacleo, -
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Admittedly, our Portal page is a heavy resource user ... with a typical list of 80 + queries per click. On the shared hosting environment, that load would take anywhere from 3 - 5 seconds. Now it shows 86 queries in 0.9 seconds. Wow!
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We were having high CPU usage on MySQL (MariaDB) over the past few days. High CPU ~100% even though there were no queries/databases. Turns out it was due to 'leap second' linux kernel bug that has affected MySQL. If you are having higher than usual load/CPU usage since June 30th and haven't restarted your linux box over the past week, try the following fix. http://blog.mozilla....pu-and-the-fix/ :smile:
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have not used it in a bit so now on dedicated box I wanted to see. getting this when enabling it in conf_golbal.php there are then a few other errors listed driven off that line 90. I have tried other ip and made sure port is open too, but it looks like its more an issue with classCacheMemcache.php line 90 is: any thoughts?
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Hi, I am looking for someone who can make sure my ipboards setup is top notch. We run apache on 1 server and databases on a second server. I want to be sure our setup is running as good possible on our hardware. Please email (danny@forkradio.com) or PM me. Thx!
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Whats the best method of redirecting my Old Forum all the contents (hosted in IIS) to New Forum contents (hosted in Apache linux) Example: Old : http://www.xxxx.com/forum/index.php?/topic/13449-how-to-clean-corolla-111-cristal-lightswhere/ New : http://forum.xxxx.com/topic/13449-how-to-clean-corolla-111-cristal-lightswhere/ I tried to do it using an .htaccess file but seems like it's not working in Windows IIS server. Then I tried using a web.config file, but it gives an error when I place it in the root. Guys what is the best way to do the above task? and If you can I have a working redirect code for the above task? Thanks, Muthu
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just by normal browsing I am seeing slower page loading then I was with apache 2.2.22. only been running a day so no real data yet by just user experience reports.
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Not sure, but this seemed to be the best place to put this question. I've been using GoDaddy but would like to move to another hosting service. I'm looking for a service that is easier to understand, where I can actually access the support pages, and where I can find the information I need to get things done. Which hosting service do you use & why? Thank you to those who answer.
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first, having moved from whm/cpanel to directadmin I fail to see why this costs more than cpanel...but its free to me with my package so I will deal with it. to run sphinx neatly (from default install if var/sphinx) I need to run the crons as root, on centos 6.2 crontab -e is just blank and when I try to add the crons to it I get format errors. other server (centos 6.2 with cpanel install) worked fine like that. cannot see why directadmin would affect crontab -e, cannot find any definitive info, so I am hesitant to mess with it w/o some advice. thanks.
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