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Two Servers Configuration
by Guest mat_- 4 replies
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Maybe I have to switch to two-servers configuration (www and sql) but firstly I would like your opinion from experienced administrators. For 800-900 users online (5mins). What servers specification are needed? Thanks
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Server Optimization for board with 2500 to 5000 users online
by Guest Venomrush- 3 replies
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My dedicated server has been responding extremely slow the past few days. Would like to know how I can improve with your advanced knowledge on server optimisation. Server specs: Intel Xeon 5405 Quad Core Harpertown Second Intel Xeon 5405 Quad Core Harpertown RAM: 4096 MB HDD: 146GB, 10K RPM SCSI/SAS OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Version 5 Server is only running IP.Board and nothing else. There are about 2500 to 5000 users online every 30 minutes. Or around 800 to 1000 per 5 minutes. Here is my.cnf Is there anything else I can do to PHP config to help as well?
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Is BoardStats cause High Server load?
by Guest xclusive- 1 reply
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Hello, Is BoardStats cause High Server load or not? thanks for Your time ;)
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Network timeout on my forum
by Guest Machsterdaemon- 6 replies
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I hope I'm in the right forum. I have had my forum for 6 months and now this week my site began to get problems. My site didn't load and the browser gave 'Network Timeout' or something like that. My other site on the shared server also had problems. So I did contact host who said that I had custom themes and addons and I should taka contact with the vendors. The problem started this week. At one time I couldn't browse my sites hosted on the same shared server or it took minutes to wait. I also could not browse my hosting control panel. Other sites on the internet where normal. Other time this week, my sites where normal. Last three days my sites have been normal. N…
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ibf_sessions causes frequent CPU overloads
by Guest globex- 1 reply
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My website keeps getting CPU exceeded messages. Tracking the logs I've narrowed it down to one of my IPB forums. I've recently updated this from to the latest 2.3.x version from 1.2.x because it was getting ibf_sessions problems before too. Here are a few SQL error messages I get: # Wed Jul 23 14:58:19 2008 # Query_time: 2 Lock_time: 0 Rows_sent: 0 Rows_examined: 0 use my_forum; INSERT INTO ibf_sessions (id,member_name,member_id,member_group,login_type,running_time,ip_address,bro wser,location,in_error,location_1_type,location_1_id,location_2_type,location_2_i d,location_3_type,location_3_id) VALUES('dee207e637888b0a4490e570667b9c04','',0,2,0,1216846697,'89.2…
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Linux Server Optimalization
by Guest kaanozer- 1 reply
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Hi all, Can you help me for optimize my dedicated. I use Core2Quad Q6600 2.4 Ghz 4 GB DD2 Ram 2x500 GB Hdd Cpanel Mysql 5 and Apache2. I host large IPB forums 10K, 5K, 3K hits. Total 3K online users. my.cnf if Where can i change this sets? Thanks.
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Smart hello 2 all IP Board users This is saurabh jain from pink city jaipur I am here to ask few solutions of my problem I had the forum which used to run on cgi script... so its url was used to be index.cgi .. and from alst forur yrs it gained a good ranking in google and even i saw the links on lots of blogs but as i mooved to IPB all urls changed to index.php I am looking for solution which can atleast transfer all index.cgi?........................ calls to index.pho or to any other page..... which can be desiged even google crawling is showing http 404 as it not able to find the url working... there 1 option of 301…
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Weird codes in error log
by Guest Axel Wers- 12 replies
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This topic maybe belongs here. In my error log I see in last time lot of these and similar logs: [Fri Mar 21 16:07:10 2008] [error] [client xx.xx.xx.xx] File does not exist: /root/mydomain.info/forums/jscripts/" + ipb_var_image_url + " [Fri Mar 21 16:07:10 2008] [error] [client xx.xx.xx.xx] File does not exist: /root/mydomain.info/forums/style_images/1/folder_js_skin/' + ipb_var_image_url + ' [Fri Mar 21 16:07:11 2008] [error] [client xx.xx.xx.xx] File does not exist: /root/mydomain.info/forums/jscripts/"+ipb_var_image_url+" [Fri Mar 21 15:14:03 2008] [error] [client xx.xx.xx.xx] File does not exist: /root/mydomain.info/forums/style_images/1/folder_js_skin/' + …
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2 questions. Help appreciated
by Guest Rishab- 3 replies
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1. How to edit .htaccess file. 2. want to edit php.ini but can not locate /usr/local/lib/php.ini in my root directory. please help me. :)
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Getting a new OS, any thoughts on which is best?
by Guest Wondering Soul- 7 replies
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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 =)
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MySQL Causing a few problems...
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…
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Editing post causes high iowait
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:
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Apache behind WRT54G
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…
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PHP4 or PHP5
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. :)
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Runtime Info Stats
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
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How to get my board on lists...
by Guest akman- 3 replies
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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.
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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!
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Help - server load through the roof since upgrade
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.
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Board MySQL Optimization Tips
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…
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Utilising dual drives
by Guest JanetGeorge- 2 replies
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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??????
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DNS Setting: Options to fix it
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.…
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Server Optimization
by Guest mat_- 16 replies
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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…
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Secure conf_global in shared hosting
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…
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Sleeping ?
by Guest SecondSight- 2 replies
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Hello ! :) When I make a top, I see this line at the top : Can somebody explain to me what "263 sleeping" means ? Thank you ! :)
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