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Getting a new OS, any thoughts on which is best?

March 27, 2008 by Guest Wondering Soul
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Hey :) I've just recently bought another server for a business im running with a friend (plus a few other sites) and I decided to experiment with some of the different Operating Systems! In the past (and still on my main server) I have always ran Red Hat Linux and never really felt the need to change but with this new server im looking to do just that :) So, I narrowed it down to these: Ubuntu, CentOS, Gentoo, Debian, Fedora and Suse Im basically looking for some thoughts about which you prefer and why really, just so I know what's what about each :) Thanks =)

Last reply by W13, May 19, 2008
MySQL Causing a few problems...

April 20, 2008 by Guest Wondering Soul
13 replies

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Hi, recently I have been having a few problems with MySQL on my server. Before I go into the details, I thought I would post some server info as someone always asks for some specs :P Processor: Intel G5 Xeon 2830 Dual Quad Core (8 core) Memory: 8 GB 667 Mhz DDR2 PC2-5300 Hard Disks: 8 x 73 GB Pluggable SAS SFF 10,000 RPM UHD Running: Linux/CentOS 5 Final Ok, so the problem I had has now occurred on three separate occasions in the past two days. It seems to occur at times when my forums aren't particularly active ( 80 Guests, 200 Members online in past 15 mins). That amount drastically increases during my peak times and the problem has never occurred then. The last occu…

Last reply by Bono, May 19, 2008
Editing post causes high iowait

April 22, 2008 by Guest TCWT
2 replies

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Anyone know why when editing a post with quick or full edit, the iowait jumps as high as 40%? This happens occassionally and even on a idle server. I've tested this many times, however when you post the message for the first time, this doesn't happen. :unsure:

Last reply by Lindsey_, May 18, 2008
Apache behind WRT54G

May 8, 2008 by Guest Brandon D
2 replies

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Hi all, I'm back home after spending a year at college where they were nice enough to give us our own static external IP addresses. Showing people stuff on my internal development server then was incredibly easy. Now that I'm home and behind a Linksys WRT54G router on a residential cable account, I'm having issues. I assigned my server a static internal IP address, gave it the proper subnet and used the router's internal IP as the gateway. I used my ISP's DNS servers in the configuration. After configuring those properties I went into my router configuration and redirected port 80 to my static internal IP address. People can now see my server using my external IP add…

Last reply by Mark H., May 8, 2008
PHP4 or PHP5

April 7, 2008 by Guest TCWT
7 replies

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My server is running on LiteSpeed web server, it really kicks butt. :thumbsup: The maker says PHP4 is faster than PHP5. Which is better to use for IPB? It's the only mysql/php site on my dedicated server. Also, is there a setting for APC opcode cache like eAccelerator does? Thanks in advance. :)

Last reply by Velvet Elvis, May 8, 2008
Runtime Info Stats

May 2, 2008 by Guest ReinforcedPanda
2 replies

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I was just wondering, are these Runtime stats good? I see the table locks are really high ( has no idea what that means) but I was wondering if someone could tell me if these stats are good or wut they are XD

Last reply by ReinforcedPanda, May 3, 2008
How to get my board on lists...

April 15, 2008 by Guest akman
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I created a new IP board this month. How do I get traffic to it? Are there any search engine submissions I can make myself? Are there online list of message boards I can add it too? Can I swap receprical with other sites? If so, how do I add links to my forum? Thanks for you help.

Last reply by 3DKiwi, April 15, 2008
Limiting images per post

April 15, 2008 by akman
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I need to create a limit of 4 image files per post. Also, I want to limit the total maximum allowable space for images per post of 120KB. How do I set these limits? Is there also a KB limit to the entire post including text and images? What should this be? Or is there a setting for text and one for attachments? Thanks for you help!

Last reply by akman, April 15, 2008
Help - server load through the roof since upgrade

March 26, 2008 by Guest JanetGeorge
15 replies

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My forum was upgraded last night from 2.1.7 to the latest version (very painlessly thanks to Josh :flowers: ) but since then server load has been through the roof and MySQL (too many connections) errors are occurring non-stop. I've turned off search (the usual hog) but it hasn't helped. Any thoughts?? I though that the main feature of the new version was extra speed - and it did seem faster this morning - but since lunch time it's been dire.

Last reply by rct2·com, April 6, 2008
Board MySQL Optimization Tips

December 24, 2007 by Guest Solomon
12 replies

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Hello bfarber, Many thanks for this tutorial. I am however, having some difficulties implementing the procedures described therein. When I go into phpMyAdmin using cPanel, I see a thin panel on the left with some databases and one among them is the _ipb database. On the right I have two columns "Localhost" and "phpMyAdmin - 2.11.0" and both these show some options and info. I do not see the option "forum_sessions" or similar (considering different database names etc.). When I click the _ipb database it opens the list of tables in the panel on the left and structurally displays of these tables on the right. At the top of it there is a menu consisting of Structure | SQ…

Last reply by civ, April 4, 2008
Utilising dual drives

March 28, 2008 by Guest JanetGeorge
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As my old server is dying under the load, I've just invested in a Conroe 3040 Dual Core 1.86GHz with 4 GB RAM and 2x 250GB SATA Drive RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 Having never dealt with 2 drives before, I'm wondering about the optimum way to use them to improve performance. My primary site has a very busy IPB forum - 200 users online most times - currently the database is about 1.2 GB In addition I have a dozen small sites - mainly static pages. Would I be best putting the big site on one drive and the small sites on the other? Or the database on one and the rest of IPB on the other? Or??????

Last reply by JanetGeorge, April 3, 2008
DNS Setting: Options to fix it

March 20, 2008 by Guest Katsuma
2 replies

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How is that I can controll what appears on the site in the first link but not the latter? Some how the domain is linking to my server and is doing so for months now. :blink: ;; Answer received from 216.145.1.3 (102 bytes) ;; ;; HEADER SECTION ;; id = 38866 ;; qr = 1 opcode = QUERY aa = 0 tc = 0 rd = 1 ;; ra = 1 ad = 0 cd = 0 rcode = NOERROR ;; qdcount = 1 ancount = 1 nscount = 2 arcount = 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION (1 record) ;; www.alphabeta.edu.gh. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION (1 record) www.alphabeta.edu.gh. 172800 IN A 207.58.182.26 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION (2 records) alphabeta.edu.gh. 172800 IN NS austin.gh.com. alphabeta.edu.gh. 172800 IN NS mantse.gh.com.…

Last reply by Katsuma, March 20, 2008
Server Optimization

September 17, 2007 by Guest mat_
16 replies

924 views
Hello, When I have +320 online users (in 5 minutes) then the server loads goes more to 8 and then I have IPS Driver Error. In cache I see error: Too many connections. Currently I have no mods on my board. Statistics: 1.591.956 posts 92.813 registered members Here are my dedicated server specifications: # Dual Processor Dual Core Intel Woodcrest 5130 # 4 Total 2.00 GHz Cores # Dual 1333 MHz Front-side Bus (FSB) # 4 MB Shared L2 Cache # 2 GB 667 MHz FB-DIMM Memory (Fully Buffered) # 2 x 73 GB SAS HD in Hardware RAID 1 # 100 Mbps Uplink Port with CentOS 4.x Do you think I should upgrade the server? More RAM? Or is enough just to optimize my.cnf and httpd.c…

Last reply by bfarber, March 19, 2008
Secure conf_global in shared hosting

January 3, 2008 by Guest Axel Wers
17 replies

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I read some info about security of conf_global.php, in bug report: conf_global.php file able to be included from anywhere. I have question: How can I get access to conf_global.php file via php skript? I remember that I used to know but I have forgotten it... At IPSBeyond was one topic about this. I had conf_global.php file in /home/forums/ directory and I uploaded php file with some skript to /home/test/. I ran it and I saw conf_global.php content. Then I tried Brandon's security fix: if(strpos($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'],"/my_path/main_forum/") === false) { echo "Configuration being called from the wrong area."; exit; } I put it to my conf_global.php file…

Last reply by bfarber, March 13, 2008
Sleeping ?

March 9, 2008 by Guest SecondSight
2 replies

250 views
Hello ! :) When I make a top, I see this line at the top : Can somebody explain to me what "263 sleeping" means ? Thank you ! :)

Last reply by SecondSight, March 10, 2008
Disk Space - any tips?

March 7, 2008 by Guest andyfair
9 replies

325 views
I am running at about 65-70% of my server disk space used solely for my forum. Does anyone have any tips for reducing the disk space used? We have about a 3 year history of posts stored, I wondered if there was any way of 'condensing' old posts or other tips to enable me to save some space?

Last reply by BlakeC, March 10, 2008
Modifying my.cnf to make my board and server work better

March 5, 2008 by Guest SecondSight
3 replies

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Hello ! I've made modifications to my.cnf and then restarted mysql. At the same time I was looking at the server status and I noticed that : - before I restarted the server, the "Memory used" value was 20 % (with 80 users online), the "Server load" value was about 0.30/0.70, and the "Swap used" value was 5 %. - after I restarted the server, the "Memory used" value was between 8 and 9 % and the "Swap used" value was 0.28 %. Now (45 minutes after I restarted the server), I have 280 users online and the values are about the same (the "Memory used" value is now between 9 and 10 %). As for the "memory used" value, what can explain the difference ? It was 20 % with o…

Last reply by SecondSight, March 5, 2008
Forum Optimization

February 26, 2008 by Guest mat_
2 replies

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I upgraded my server so I need your help to optimize my.cnf Server Specs: Dual Processor Dual Core Intel Woodcrest 5130 (2.00 GHz Cores), 8 GB 667 MHz FB-DIMM Memory (Fully Buffered), 2 x 73 GB SAS HD in Hardware RAID 1 I have 600-900 users online. my.cnf # The following options will be passed to all MySQL clients [client] #password = you can put your password here or use -p port = 3306 # Here follows entries for some specific programs # The MySQL server [mysqld] port = 3306 skip-locking key_buffer = 786M max_allowed_packet = 8M table_cache = 1024M sort_buffer_size = 24M read_buffer_size = 16M read_rnd_buffer_size = 16M myisam_sort_buff…

Last reply by Lindsey_, February 27, 2008
Need to Move MySQL/Databases to Another Drive

February 25, 2008 by Guest dutton2
4 replies

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We operate a Windows 2003 dedicated server and have two quite busy forum installs on them. Over the past few weeks, we have noticed the server is slowing at times. Our managed server support staff ran some tests and foudn that the MySQL is using up a lot of the IO and recommended that we move the MySQL to our E drive (which is pretty much empty right now). I have never done this and am concerned about downtime or the loss of any data. Can someone recommend a process to follow to ensure all goes correctly? Thanks.

Last reply by bfarber, February 26, 2008
A full backup is really everything?

February 3, 2008 by Guest WarRockShop
20 replies

555 views
Hi! I'm scared of hackers, but also that I may delete something important so I'll start doing weekly full backups through the Control Panel -> Files -> BackUp Wizrd -> Backup -> Full BackUp. But I would like to know if, for example, I delete everything in my server then use the backup option and restore with the backup I made, EVERYTHING will be exactlly back like it was? It's as easy as that? Thanks!

Last reply by hollland, February 26, 2008
My server restarted

February 19, 2008 by Guest SecondSight
6 replies

333 views
Hello ! :) I've noticed a "high" server load (5) and slowness on my board. Then the board no longer responded and I got a 404 error page. Then I could reach the board again. Wondering if this was normal or not, I went in WHM and looked at Apache status and I saw this : Does it mean the server restarted ? Thank you ! :)

Last reply by rct2·com, February 21, 2008
Forum loads very slow when mails have to be sent

February 14, 2008 by Guest WinFuture
4 replies

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We have our own SMTP-Mailserver and it is not very fast. So, when am member registers or a post is written, where a notification-mail has to be sent, it takes a lot of seconds to load the next page. Is there a way to send the mails "in the background", so that the forum can go on with the redirect to the next page?

Last reply by WinFuture, February 20, 2008
High value in a top

February 18, 2008 by Guest SecondSight
2 replies

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Hello ! I made a top and noticed this line (I put the legend above) : The other lines are like this : Is the figure I put in bold normal, in your opinion ? Thank you ! :)

Last reply by SecondSight, February 18, 2008
Speeding Up & Optimising Forum

February 13, 2008 by Guest THL
2 replies

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Alright there... Just after a few helpful tips, I've got a dedicated server on which I host my forum the setup is AMD X2 Dual Core 5000MHz, with 4GB DDR Ram running with WHM/Cpanel.. Whats the best way to speed and opimise the sysytem for my IPB board which has 7500 members and around 200 guest. 250 members online at peak times...Also 370876 posts, and a couple of mods... How would I go about this, and what sort of server load is good for what I'm running.... Thanks

Last reply by bfarber, February 13, 2008
Server Specs

February 12, 2008 by Guest Jelly Belly™
3 replies

440 views
Hi Can anyone advise what sort of dedicated server specs i should be aiming for with an IPB that has over 1000,000 posts, 25,000 members and an average of 500 users online at any one time please ? many thanks

Last reply by bfarber, February 12, 2008