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Disk Space - any tips?

March 7, 2008 by Guest andyfair
9 replies

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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

326 views
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

787 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

456 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

300 views
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

210 views
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

377 views
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

676 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
What Control Panel Do You Use?

November 4, 2007 by Guest djxcee
22 replies

884 views
Just curious to see what control panel people use these days. As of right now I plan on using Lxadmin because it comes with lighttpd. I'm the only person using my dedicated server so no need for reselling features and etc.

Last reply by kdinla, February 11, 2008
Invision board server specs

February 4, 2008 by Guest Dens
6 replies

590 views
Hi, I'm thinking about installing my board on a dedicated server but really would like to know what the best specs are for the server. My forum have about a 800 visitors a day. any suggestions?

Last reply by FrostedPopTart, February 10, 2008
Split mysql reads/writes to different servers

February 7, 2008 by Guest Deco20
5 replies

549 views
By the way that's my case. I've got a sports related website hosted in 5 servers. On of the future problems I will have is that I do load balancing with the static content, the scripts, etc. but the database of the forum is in a "big" server and I'm afraid I will not be available to use mysql cluster to make load balance because no software forum seems to be ready to split writes and reads.

Last reply by bfarber, February 8, 2008
Server Resource Issues

January 29, 2008 by Guest DrumCorpsFan
5 replies

373 views
I've been having a number of issues recently on my server which normally result in the system (RHES Rel 4 - dedicated) starting to swap pretty heavily - then down that slippery slope into oblivion. Watching 'top' shows me that before this happens, it appears that mysqld is running at >100% CPU and multiple httpd processes have stacked-up. We were able to catch a snapshot of the mySQL process list during a couple of these incidents and they've all looked very similar. Here's one example: 73333 dcp_forumdb localhost dcp_dcpforum Query 35 Locked UPDATE main_topics SET posts=8,topic_queuedposts=0,last_poster_id=19738,last_poster_name='drummerdud 73335 dcp_f…

Last reply by bfarber, February 8, 2008
If subdomain doesn't exist...

February 5, 2008 by Guest Axel Wers
1 reply

188 views
In my error log is lot of such logs: [Tue Feb 05 21:07:54 2008] [error] [client xx.xxx.xxx.xxx] File does not exist: /path/mydomain.com/root/subdomain_which_doesn't exist When a visitor types to address bar this: www.mydomain.com/subdomain_which_doesn't_exist he will get 404 error Is there way how can I redirect all unknow addresses to main page via .htaccess? www.mydomain.com/subdomain_which_doesn't exist --->>redirect to--->> www.mydomain.com :)

Last reply by 440net, February 6, 2008
Saving bandwith

January 24, 2008 by Guest alienshe
8 replies

297 views
Any tips on how to save on bandwith? Is it true that clicking the "View New Posts" option uses up a lot? Is there any way to ban members from using this? Also, does embedding youtube vids use much up? Thanks.

Last reply by bfarber, January 28, 2008
Topic prune tips please

January 26, 2008 by Guest fineline
2 replies

434 views
For reasons I won't bother you with, we have a very large database with 100,000 topics and well over a million posts. Can't really see any benefit in that and presumably makes the CPU work harder during searches. I found that using the topic prune takes an age, about 1 sec per topic. I zapped just 2000 topics last week and took over 30mins so to half our db would probably take around 14 hours at best. Was wondering what others have found the optimum number of posts per cycle was, I used 50, and could keeping the forums running during a prune cause any problems? Would it make sense to start the prune at say midnight when traffic is light, go to bed and forget it? W…

Last reply by bfarber, January 28, 2008
UDG Connection...

January 25, 2008 by Guest bwyatt
3 replies

413 views
Regarding Brandon's Tutorial, it won't work for me :/ I get the following error: Error Number: 2005 Error: Unknown MySQL server host ':/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (3) Did anyone else get this when they tried to switch to UDG, is there a solution? Yes, I did ensure that I got the right path down and yes UDG is a supported transport protocol... any ideas?

Last reply by bfarber, January 28, 2008
phpMyAdmin to know what's going wrong ?

January 24, 2008 by Guest SecondSight
2 replies

251 views
Hello ! :) I was told I could use phpMyAdmin to know the server status and gather information to configure my server. Is it useful ? Can you tell me about it ? How do you proceed to gather information in order to configure your server ? Thank you ! :)

Last reply by SecondSight, January 26, 2008
Linux or Windows for server?

January 22, 2008 by Guest 3DKiwi
7 replies

249 views
Hi. I'm looking to change hosts for a number of reasons. I currently have my site / forum running on a dedicated Linux server with PHP3 and MySQL 3.23. I want to change hosts and are looking at a host offering either a Linux server or a Windows server. Both with the current versions of PHP and MySQL. I'm more comfortable working in a Windows environment but are there any pitfalls running on Windows? Any issues moving my db? Thanks Nigel

Last reply by 3DKiwi, January 25, 2008
Very slow queries causing IPS Driver Errors

January 24, 2008 by Guest PePiPoo
6 replies

480 views
Recently my board has been getting increasing numbers of IPS Driver Errors, to the point where it's virtually unusable for hours in the middle of the day. The problem appears to be that (some) search queries are taking extremely long times to complete, and all the other queries coming in are just backing up. I turned on MySQL slow query logging and a couple of examples are shown below. Can anyone suggest where the problem is and what I can do to fix it? # Time: 080123 13:48:39 # User@Host: pepipoo[pepipoo] @ localhost [] # Query_time: 392 Lock_time: 0 Rows_sent: 409 Rows_examined: 134607 SELECT p.pid, p.queued, t.approved, t.forum_id FROM ibf_post…

Last reply by ErwinB, January 25, 2008
Modifying my.cnf and then ?

January 24, 2008 by Guest SecondSight
2 replies

269 views
Hello ! :) I've made changes to my.cnf and saved the file. Should I restart mysql now or the whole server ? Thank you for your help. :)

Last reply by SecondSight, January 24, 2008
Fastest FTP Transfer Software

January 9, 2008 by Guest Solomon
10 replies

680 views
Which is the fastest FTP Transfer Client/Software ?

Last reply by Lewis P, January 20, 2008
I P B: Optimizing Server Load Issues

November 19, 2007 by Guest keiichi_merged
16 replies

749 views
I need help. Apparently my database file is causing excessive loads on my webhost at Host Gator and I don't know how to fix the problem. I have Google Ads running on my forums but this is the email message I received. Anyone know how I could correct this problem? And would increasing the memory on my forums cause this problem as well?

Last reply by loccom, January 17, 2008
How to .cgi errors

January 12, 2008 by Guest DawPi
7 replies

287 views
I am greeting, I would like to do logs of errors on my side. Yes how it is in IPB that he is writing logs and errors down to the file. cgi Would I be able to obtain more information for this subject? I am greeting, DawPi

Last reply by DawPi, January 12, 2008