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I have an IPB forum with chat and calender apps. No portal, no blog, no gallery, and almost no hooks. Just the ip.board. The board has roughly 3,500 members and averages about 60 online users during daytime hours. From about 9pm until 8am, that number drops to almost zero. We don't allow attachments. We have about 300,000 posts and the ipb database size is under 200MB. Siteground, which responds to every problem by recommending a more powerful server, says we've maxxed out a dedicated server. I say no freaking way. Time to move. What type of server package should be required to run this community? Can anyone give a recommendation? I'm eyeing the following Hostgator …
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Hi, I am having hard time to decide which one is better, Apache with mod_fcgid (FastCGI) or Litespeed webserver. Also I've bought CDN. I'll appreciate help in this matter. Thank you.
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I got a little bored and figured I'd hack up a MySQL database driver that does read/write splitting. The nice thing about this driver is that it shouldn't break as the current mysql drivers are updated. I'm not sure how well it works but if you want to try it out and give me some feedback it will help me to improve it. From my own experiments I didn't seem to come across any problems. The idea for this driver is that you can set up your mysql in a master-slave configuration where you have one master that you can both read and write updates to, and copies of the data are sent out to the slave databases. Sample Setup: Mysql Master Server + Slave #1 + Slave #2 +…
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Someone have tried Sphinx 1.0? It works? And if it dont work last question... How can I downgrade from 0.9.9 to 0.9.8?
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A lot of people on a forum I'm on that recently switched to IPB are complaining that the forum is much slower now since switching from vB to IPB. I noticed it is a bit sluggish as well, but only by a second or two. There are a LOT of members, and millions of posts. No one will sacrifice pruning forums because they know they will lose their "precious post count." Any ideas for speeding up the forum, for someone who is no good with MySQL editing?
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Does anything need to be adjusted in the xcache files, themselves ? When using this for the forum,or is it just a case of adding one line to the config file within IPB.. In regard to this article http://community.invisionpower.com/resources/documentation/index.html/_/tutorials/large-communities/using-alternate-cache-storage-r169
Last reply by THL, -
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Hello I was try to use xcache and it realy helps my server and i was add also in config.php the line: $INFO['use_xcache'] = '1'; so the forum start use this cache but i have a problem on my server. xeon quad 16gb ram 4xsas disks raid 10 Cpanel server: Nginx in front of Apache 2.2 + prefork Php as fastcgi prefork settings: StartServers 8 MinSpareServers 10 MaxSpareServers 10 MaxClients 256 MaxRequestsPerChild 20000 When i have for example users 10 and latest user that register is user test1 when i use another browser and register another user so i can have users 11 and latest user test2 when i refresh sometimes i got the correct stats and then if …
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What is best for a IPB on a VPS ? Operating System (OpenVZ): specs : » Control Panel: cPanel » Disk Space: 30 GB » RAM (Memory): 1024 MB Guaranteed / 2048 MB Burstable » Bandwidth Configurations: 1000 GB Transfer on 100 Mbps » 2 IP Addresses
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Hello I had converted DB from Latin2 to utf-8 it seems that we are using much less memory for mysql earlier we were using 900-1000mb, now we are using about 600mb - how it's possible? Some errors or it's regullar behaviour?
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Hello If anyone have a forum with more than 500 users online at the same time and use prefork please share your settings :) Thank you
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Hello When i try to emppty a forum with 30.000 topics inside i got internal server error :( Apache log: [Thu Dec 09 05:13:52 2010] [warn] [client 123.456.789.999] mod_fcgid: read data timeout in 40 seconds, referer: http://www.forum.com/admin/index.php?adsess=2230448c§ion=content&act=forum&code=empty&f=42 [Thu Dec 09 05:13:52 2010] [error] [client 123.456.789.999] Premature end of script headers: index.php, referer: http://www.forum.com/admin/index.php?adsess=2230448c§ion=content&act=forum&code=empty&f=42 [Thu Dec 09 05:13:52 2010] [error] [client 123.456.789.999] File does not exist: /home/user/public_html/500.shtml, refe…
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Hello Is it better to use compression of content using the ACP option or to use mod_deflate? Thank you
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I followed the guide that was posted regarding the Sphinx search engine setup. All went well, but I keep getting the following email on my machine...not sure what I'm doing wrong or how to fix it. >_< Subject: Cron <pyro@pegasus> /usr/local/bin/indexer --config /home/pyro/sphinx.conf core_search_delta members_search_delta forums_search_delta --rotate Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/home/pyro> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=pyro> Sphinx 0.9.8.1-release (r1533) Copyright © 2001-2008, Andrew Aksyonoff using config file '/home/pyro/sphinx.conf…
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I'm experiencing some serious server problems after long awayted migration and conversion of my two invision communities from 2.3.6 to lastest versions. The new server hosts only my two domains, with a quite small php site and two communities 1) the bigger www.mangaitalia.it - total post 800'000 - total user 20'000 - max online 72 - blog + gallery + facebook integration 2) the smaller www.mangadb.it/invision - total post 200'000 - totale user 3'000 - facebook integration + ipcontent (not used) Before require serious technical help, i have to ask what are the minimum HARDWARE server requirements in order to manage two board like these two. I already could…
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My host is Liquidweb, and my current dedicated server is running Cent OS 3 as it's OS. This has reached it's 'end of life' phase and is no longer being actively maintained. So, the option is to upgrade the OS, or upgrade the server. Naturally, a server upgrade makes sense, to get the latest hardware. Currently I've got: AMD Phenom 9500 Quad-Core Processor running at 2.2 ghz. 4Gb ram 120gb HD. I've had no problems with this setup running my sites. What is most beneficial when running forums? Is it processor, memory or hard-drive speed? Is there an order of importance? Cost wise I want to keep it to around
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Hello Is it possible sphinx to give results for greek characters from a database like this: MySQL connection collation: utf8 general ci But the tables inside are : latin1_swedish_ci <---- And this is the problem... And i think all there are: latin1_swedish_ci I am using utf8 on ACP and greek are fine on the forum but i can get search results only if i use manual search and not full text search. Thank you
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Hello last days I had switched 2 tables from myisam to the innodb. Accordind to that switch memry used by mysql had jumped. Just now we are using 3.3gb of memy ram - from possible 4gb MySQL is using 1gb. Next days I'm going to switch whole db into innodb - what do You think how much ram should I reserve for mysql if my db is about 1GB disk size? Should I order 4gb ram memory more? the processor in the server is 2x quad xeon
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Hi, My load has recently increased to about 150 concurrent users, and performance is very sluggish. I installed unreal portal, shoutbox, and I'm using the stock skin. Before the increase in the number of users there were no issues, now the cpu can spike up to 20-30% at times, the shoutbox sometimes does double posts, and everyone is complaining it's slow. I'm thinking that maybe there is something I could do to optimise the board, and the VPS I'm currently using. I'm having an Essential VPS with servint, that's about 768ram available. Sorry I forgot to mention that nowadays I'm seeing httpd <defunct> in top.
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Hello these days I'm going to switch to InnoDB server. My db is about 1gb. Is it possible to handle it with 4gb ram server or should I upgrade RAM to 8gb? Could You recommend some settings for my.cnf config for such setup? regards YacentY
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I just purchased a VPS and I'm lost on what to do. It's unmanaged, my only choice since I don't got a lot of money to work with. Here's what I installed so far: Debian 5.0 Linux OS Webmin Apache PHP MySQL GD Webalizer Dovcot Postfix SquirrelMail APF Firewall BFD (Brute Force Detection) ProFTPD ClamAV + ClamDaemon I have no idea how to configure these or what the appropriate settings are. I know that I want everything to be secure and fast, and also plan on installing the following: Xcache Memcache Apache MPM Worker Sphinx Here's my post on Taz for a better idea what I want to do besides prepping it for IPB3: http://www.theadminz...ead.php?t=71706…
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Hello Is the amount of 1724438 normal on table ibf_topic_markers on a forum with 1.270.000 posts? Thank you
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http://community.invisionpower.com/resources/documentation/index.html/_/tutorials/large-communities/setting-up-sphinx-r181 Says My file looks this (Debian Lenny) #! /bin/sh ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: rc.local # Required-Start: $remote_fs # Required-Stop: # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: # Short-Description: Run /etc/rc.local if it exist ### END INIT INFO PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin . /lib/init/vars.sh . /lib/lsb/init-functions do_start() { if [ -x /etc/rc.local ]; then [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_begin_msg "Running local boot scripts (/etc/rc.local)" /etc/rc.loc…
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Well securing at least if someone could possibly help me with that. I'm flat out broke and I need to move off my current web space since I can't pay, remembered I had credit with another host for a VPS so I'm going to be moving my site there for the time being and hope things get better in the next month. It's a semi-managed Cpanel host, I already have ConfigServer Security and Firewall installed with CSF/LFD. I tried updating Apache and PHP with EasyApache but it's complaining the packages or package manager is broke. CSF lists many security issues that need to be addressed, and I'm not familiar with Linux. I'm broke, so I don't have money to pay but I will offer my …
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Hello I have a problem as i was try to use xache on my invision forum. I was install it on a cpanel server with only one account inside bt is caching only 100 out of 10.000 hits :( I am not using suexec on fast cgi handler that i use. (also i was add the xcache line on invision config) Any ideas why it is not working? Now i am thinking that maybe the problem is something related to php security that i do not know or maybe that i was upload the files on the server as root and not with the username of the account and the permissions are not correct.... or not? Thank you
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Hi, Anyone here uses varnish cache or has experience on it? Facebook uses varnish cache http://www.varnish-cache.org/ Thank you.
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