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Hi there. I am a newbie with web administration and such, and need some help optimizing my site if at all possible. I have VPS from Dreamhost guaranteed at 1410 MB. I dont have a ton of traffic, and am running into issues every once and a while with a slow site, or a 500 internal server error. Dreamhost tells me it is because I am reaching the max clients? They have told me: Your total RAM is displayed in the chart, it's the orange line that peaks to about 800MB. Though what is not displayed is your total max clients allowed for you Apache service and the value is linked to how much memory you have allowed your server. Your server is currently set to 1410MB and in…
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hello, i'v been working on ipb project for my work and they want me to put it on dedicated server so what is the best server hardware and software for server specially the OS my boss asked me to give him the specific and he will get it for me i want to make sure it's supper fast and secure need help in this plz.
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Hello Does the latest IPB support splitting of mysql reads and writes ? Is there any tutorial for this? Thank you
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On my forum at bottom it says 'Exec. Time: 0.4713' I have visited some other IPB forums and their execution time is way below then mine.. Can someone help me to speed up my execution time? I am using php 5.3.x with apache2 as server handler and xcache. If their is anything anyone can suggest to speed up my forums it would be great! Thanks
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so I am looking around at tuning sql, this is my.cnf on CPANEL server (centos 6.2 64bit) located in /etc [mysqld] # safe-show-database log-slow-queries max_connections=500 default-storage-engine=MyISAM innodb_file_per_table=1 lol seems a bit bare. I should be able to drop those max connections right?
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https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights#url=fearless-assassins.com&mobile=false&rule=DeferParsingJavaScript Can someone tell me how can I do that?
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My current server uses an AMD Phenom II 3.20ghz X4 840 Processor. I have been told that this is a desktop processor. I am considering moving onto a server that uses an Intel i7 2.67ghz. Is this a server processor? My site gets 500+ online members daily, I notice a decrease in ghz but I have been told that it will handle my site better as it is a better processor. I know literally nothing about this so can anyone confirm that it is a better option?
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Hi - How complicated is it to change from a hosting service to a dedicated server? We have all kinds of different installations for our website: static pages, 4images, joomla, phplist, ip board, wordpress ... The proposed new server has sent us a migration document but just so nervous ... Don't want to crash our website! Thanks, Brian
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Hi :) i have a problem, whenever i turn new user activation through email the reload page after i press "Register" takes for ever to reload and say that administrator needs you to activate account through email. On the other hand when i turn that option off it works just fine. I own a VPS and i configured it my self, is there a posiable chance that i reconfigured something and now sending the activation email takes for ever because of that? If yes than please help.
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We ran an analysis of web pages with the option google from url: developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed and after that system recommended me: Overview The page XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX got an overall PageSpeed Score of 37 (out of 100). Learn more This PageSpeed Report is generated for this page as it appears in desktop browsers. To get suggestions on how to optimize the performance of this page for mobile devices, generate a mobile report. Suggestion Summary Click on the rule names to see suggestions for improvement. High priority. These suggestions represent the largest potential performance wins for the least development effort. You should address these items first…
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Well, it's more complicated than that, but I can't come up with a good title. So. This past Sunday, our forum at http://asoiaf.westeros.org/ received unprecedented levels of traffic thanks to the latest episode of the TV show based on the novels our site is about. Big, big load. And for the most part, our set up -- lighttpd+php-fpm, with Varnish set up for guests -- handled it okay. Note the server also hosts a popular Mediawiki which draws more visitors than the forum does. But after Sunday... things got weird. I'm going to quote our valiant server host and admin: So... any ideas as to what might have happened to start leading to this memory-chewing problem? I'…
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We suffered a major crash without a conscise all-in-one-place backup, and had to rebuild a new server from scratch. In the process, we upgraded to the latest stable production versions of PHP and MySQL. Here's a heads up to folks in similar situations. The latest MySQL msi installer defaults to UTF8 charsets and collations, which causes an "illegal mix of collations" error when IPB attempts to display post content. When building from scratch, make sure MySQL builds its install with the connection/collation default to latin1/latin1_swedish_ci. If you don't, all is not lost, you can launch the reconfigure wizard to change it, as long as you've loaded the backed up datab…
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Since I upgraded from IP.Board 2 to IP.Board 3 my page load times have significantly increased. Average page load time in Google Webmaster Tools went from 1.5-2 seconds to 6 (and rising). In Google Analytics the increase wasn't that bad, but still noticeable. It seems like the page is reasonably fast most of the time (Page Load Time <.3s according to the footer) but sometimes it stalls for several seconds. I already had APC installed to try and improve the situation a bit, but so far it does not appear to have done much good. Unfortunately I don't have root access to the server, so it's hard to run any proper diagnostics. I did manage to obtain some data though - s…
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if not why? if yes have you notice any difference and have you tuned the apache 2.4 to further optimize?
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Anyone know the typical cause of this type of error: Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 32505856) (tried to allocate 3996 bytes) in........ Thanks in advance for any help.
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Hi everybody, I'd like to move to a dedicated platform, given that the mutualized / shared server my board is on cannot host us any longer, because of a too important traffic. There are several offers I looked up to, but I do not really know whether these servers will be enough to fit to my board. That is why I came here, hoping that maybe some of you could help me with that! Here are some of the main statistics of my board : - 18k members - 973k posts - Max 1k members online / 15 minutes (usually 200-600) And here are the offers that I'm interested in (these pages show the main informations about each server) : - Deewiojfsfx SC : http://www.online.net/serveur-d…
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Hello, we were recently hacked by the following: http://forums.oscommerce.com/topic/345957-evalbase64-decode-hack/ as we us invision boards as our source CMS but we use WP for the frontend of the site. My system adminstrator was curious what security and permissions items should be have in place to insure that we don't have this issue again. We have put in a ticket to invision as well as we are looking for documentation on security for invision. Thanks
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I planned to move my IPB in VPS What is the minimum requirement? What is the major thing that I need to check? RAM? CPU Core? HDD?
Last reply by raindog308, -
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I did the "locate php.ini" command and there was a list in different location, so I tired to edit this one: /usr/lib64/kloxophp/zend/etc/php.ini I changed the max upload limit allowed to 5M and now my forum isn't loading. It seems like php isn't working at all. Is there anything I can do to correct this? EDIT: This is the output after I ran this command: [root@server ~]# php --ini PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php/modules/curl.so' - /usr/lib/php/modules/curl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0 Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php/modules…
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Hey everyone, I recently bought a domain (Mine-Forums.com) with namecheap and I was wondering how I can get it to work on my IP forums. (I purchased standered 25)
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Hey guys, So we got hacked the other day. Actually, it was just a member who somehow got an admins password, and went in ACP and started deleting members. So I restored the members table from the backup from the previous night. Everything is fine now except the server is being weird. Right after I restored the backup table, the server load was going over 50 and causing the site to be inaccessible for 10-15 minutes out of every hour. Since then, our tech support company has made tweaks to MySQL, and the server load averages from 2-5 (it used to be 0.2 to 0.7 before the incident), occasionally going over 5 and making the community inaccessible due to the ACP settin…
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Hello, I want to know, which Hardware is acceptable for 1000 User online at the same time ? My prefered Server will have the following configuration : EX4- Server : Intel Quadcore I7-2600 ( 3,4 GHZ ) 16 GB DDR3 RAM 2 x 3 TB SATA ( 6 Gb/s HDD - 7200 rpm - Software RAID 1 ) 1Gbit Network Is this ok ?
Last reply by Luis Manson, -
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this weekend i have been playing with Zabbix for do some stats/monitoring...to be honest its kinda harsh in the GUI are, but very powerfull, so after playing a bit i made this simple template to also monitor IPB along with CPU/HD/SQL... it has 3 stats: new topics, threads and members, and one graph for those stats, i had not setup any triggers, but its very easy, a good use for triggers is to have an alert if there are no new members or posts in X time Template: UserParameters (in IPB server agent config file) UserParameter=ipbGA.posts, echo 'SELECT COUNT(*) from DDBB.PREFIX_posts where post_date > UNIX_TIMESTAMP( ) -3600;'| mysql -s -r -uUSER -pPasswD Use…
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I've been having some problems with the my forum lately (slow loading times, server services failing (spamd specifically)) so I was going through this forum looking for ideas on how to troubleshoot this. I ran this command to see how many connections were being made on the server and this is the result root@srv1064 [~]# netstat -ntu | awk '{print $5}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn 62 78.54.22.249 56 200.89.57.245 46 93.97.128.48 24 83.32.191.42 19 93.197.103.25 15 66.249.72.207 15 178.14.35.241 9 92.138.217.185 9 121.54.64.27 7 86.46.146.228 7 82.120.244.110 3 80.236.49.9 …
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MySQL: Is there anything I can disable to save server resource? I only want to keep what's needed to run a forum using Sphinx search. This is what I have loaded at the moment.
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