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Google Adsense
by Guest pattaya-live- 3 replies
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Just spent a few hours searching for references that will assist me with restricting the access to a board by the Google Adsense Bot. I have Adsense throughout the board, but wish to keep the adsense bot limited to the Guest areas. I understand that will reduce the relevance of the adsense 'ads'. All links and thoughts welcome. Thanks.
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Question About Assistance In Moving To Another Host
by Guest RobVT- 4 replies
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I have been on Bluehost for a year and I have to tell you it has been horrible. The dreaded CPU quota error that so many complain about has bit me. Because of this I am being forced to go back to my old host. I did not like their Customer Service but I never got these annoying errors. So with that being said, I am not fully comfortable moving all these files and DB for my forum over to the other host. So are there any guys here that would be interested in doing it. I can tell you the site total is about 15gb to move. I am just not comfortable moving these files and something with the DBs getting hosed with my board. And the files on the current server that I need. …
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Help With Table Level Locking
by Guest PranK_merged- 12 replies
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I am seriously considering converting ibf_posts, ibf_topics and some others to Innodb as over the past few days I have had to restart mysqld a dozen times due to SHOW PROCESSLIST showing 60 or 70 queries locked... While I understand that a lot of you think that MyISAM should be the engine for IPB I cant see how to get around the locks while using it. I'd love some suggestions or help. SPECS; Dual, dual core Xeon 2GB memory 4 x SAS 10k drives (Raid 10) Board has 3.4M posts, 35K members. Averages 300 online at a time (spiking to 500ish). Thanks in advance. Christian
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Which Php Extensions Can I Turn Off With Ipb?
by Guest W13- 3 replies
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Which of these PHP extensions can I turn off safely? (I have memcache enabled on my IPB btw - we're using mySQL and GD2) extension=bz2.so extension=calendar.so extension=ctype.so extension=curl.so extension=pcre.so extension=simplexml.so extension=spl.so extension=dom.so extension=filter.so extension=gd.so extension=hash.so extension=iconv.so extension=json.so extension=mbstring.so extension=mcrypt.so extension=mhash.so extension=mysql.so extension=pdo.so extension=pdo_sqlite.so extension=posix.so extension=session.so extension=sockets.so extension=sqlite.so extension=sysvmsg.so extension=sysvsem.so extension=sysvshm.so
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Restoring An 800meg .sql Backup?
by Guest Prizm- 3 replies
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HI everyone. I've just purchased almost everything I can from IPB to convert and upgrade to IPB. I'm upgrading from PHPBB, and am VERY glad we're doing it. We operate a pretty high traffic forum. The database back-up from PHPBB was ~800megs. Now I know restoring that through phpmyadmin is just something that will happen. The only reason I was going to restore it is because I wasn't 100% sure of the IPB converter. So what I was going to do, was backup a copy of the phpbb sql, restore it locally on my own webserver, and run the converter and see what happened. Does anyone have any advice on such a situation? It's imperative that I lose no data. I'm having a similar issu…
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How Do I Fix 500 Internal Server Error?
by Guest Stars25- 12 replies
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ok i was in my cpanel i updated my corn jobs and i didnt change anything i just update it cause it didnt work so i thought if i update it it might work but then i go on my site after i update it and i get a 500 internal server error on my forums please help !!!!!!!!!!! Btw the error is here /home/chaosmod/public_html/forum
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Issues With Asmallorange Vps & Ipb
by Guest SacEric- 3 replies
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I moved my site over to ASmallOrange.com a while back and started w/ their shared hosting, but due to some issues that a vocal minority on my site was having, I decided to upgrade to a VPS account. One sponsor is still having problems w/ the site being slow, but it seems to be all sites hosted there, so I think that's a different issue. Anyhow, lately we've been experiencing a lot of downtime and it's getting worse. I'm sure the demand is getting less since we're losing members because of this. I currently have just over 10,000 registered and almost 350,000 posts. There used to be nearly 100 people on at one time, now less than half that and the number of actual members o…
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Can I Need Vps Or Server?
by Guest Prajyot2007- 1 reply
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my ipb version 2.3.2 and have 3700 members and 30,838 posts. database size is 11mb max. 25 members online at a time. and i am using shared host. i not have any problem with host. but some time i get ipb error like "server can not handle your request". server have php ver. 4.4.7 and mysql ver. 4.1.22 so i need to buy VPS or server for my host?
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Automatizing Server Backups
by Guest Solomon- 2 replies
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I set the Cron Jobs (Advanced) in my CPanel to make backups each day, each week and each month, at a certain time and added an email address where the Cron Output ought to be sent. I am not getting any information nor is the Cron Job making any backups as it is supposed to. Am I doing something wrong ? Is there a way to automatically generate a full backup and then store it on my computer without having to manually make one and then download it to a backup drive on my computer? When making a backup using the Cron Job Tab does it generate a backup that contains the Home Directory Backup as well as a MySQL Database Backup? Or does one need to make a second entry in the C…
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Site Slow
by Guest htc- 12 replies
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Hi there, I have had complaints that the forum I run is slow. It will load, but when you go to a new topic and post, it puts up the title header and then there is a 30-40 sec delay between it displaying the box to type in. It frustrates me as well. I have had a new member leave because of the slowness which is disappointing. I would like to know how to fix it - how do I find out if it is the skin or the server it is on or somehow change settings to make it quicker. It is a new forum - 15 members thus far 5mb database size. I have added no mods, using the standard IPB skin, nothing more. The website that is also on the site is fine and had no complaints about this. …
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Spontaneous High Memory Causing 500 Errors
by Guest austinreefclub- 13 replies
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Hello, I just moved my site (about 30 users online per hour) to a VPS from shared. My shared service was working great, so I thought "Hey, surely a VPS is even better!" My memory seems to be randomly spiking. I have tried "top" and "ps aux" whenever it occurs but I can't figure out what's causing it. I don't have root to my box, so I can't really tinker with the settings. What can I do to track this down? The boards seems to run flawlessly for about 4 or 5 hours then crashes and wont show anything but a 500 error until I reboot the server. My error log is filled with: [Tue Nov 06] [error] [client X.X.X.X] unable to init Zlib: deflateInit2 returned -4: URL /intern…
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Newbie Server Question.
by Guest limpinglogan- 3 replies
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I am new and just installed ipb board. In a year or so i would like to see my forum grow and hopefully have thousands of members online at one time...how do I know if my server will handle this? I use ix webhosting...if I am having problems I wonder if I can just paythem more to upgrade me? Any one want to help a newbie out?
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Excessive Server Loads: Need Caching Plugin, If Available
by Guest keiichi_merged- 2 replies
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My forums have become a bit on the large side, some 85,000+ messages on my forums and due to a problem with the DB causing excessive server loads with my webhost I need to know if there's a way to better optimize my database so that it's not interfering with the servers that my webhost provider has. Apparently, it has something to do with the fact that there are too many queries being performed ... Is there a caching plugin available to help with this problem?
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Php 4 To Php 5
by Guest bwyatt- 9 replies
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We tried to upgrade our server to php 5, but all the php on my forum wouldn't parse, the browser just tried to download it. Is there a setting(s) I need to change that tells IPB that we're now using php 5? Any tips on migrating to mysql 5 while we're on the subject would be nice too. :) Thanks for any help.
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Php Index Not Always Being Processed
by Guest AtariAge- 6 replies
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I am having a strange problem. Yesterday I moved my site from one dedicated cPanel server to another. I'm running newer versions of Apache (2.2 instead of 1.x) and (PHP 5.x instead of 4.x). Everything seems to be working fine except for one thing that is driving me nuts. For some users, when they go to the root of the website, they the raw PHP file instead of the properly parsed file. However, visiting "http://www.atariage.com/index.html" works fine. So, visiting this sometimes displays PHP for some of my users: http://www.atariage.com Visiting this does not: http://www.atariage.com/index.html Also, visiting the SSL version of the site without explicitly in…
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Asking For Optimization Suggestion
by Guest bfcrew- 22 replies
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My server is Dual-Core AMD Opteron Processor 1216 HE 4GB RAM But I still feel so slow and high load when in peak time for more than 700 users. I already put eaccelerator, full text searching, turn off concurrent connections, upgrade to PHP5 but I'm still in Apache 1.3 My forum have more than 530.000 posts it it growing rapidly with more than 100 user registrations in a day. Please help me to optimize as I still feel slow when in peak time. this is my.cnf code: [mysqld] safe-show-database max_allowed_packet = 16M max_connections=250 skip-name-resolve #set-variable = interactive_timeout=100 #set-variable = wait_timeout=15 #set-variable = connect_timeout=…
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Xcache - Is There An Eaccelerator Type Setting ?
by Guest cokecan- 7 replies
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if using xcache is there a setting that should use in conf_global like use_eaccelerator for eaccelerator or should I just use the use_eaccelerator ? thanks
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How To Install Components?
by Guest ArmFootball.com- 0 replies
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Program To Search For Code In Multiple Files
by Guest Bobsuch- 1 reply
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Hi, I'm trying to replace/find some bits of code in multiple files (About 10>), and I was wondering if there was a program that was capable of finding strings of codes in multiple files at once? Thanks :)
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Documentation On Iconcube
by Guest TheLoungeII- 1 reply
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I require documentation on how to get Nexus to recognise I have 'ionCube' installed on my server. I have come across some documentation about adding a line to a file but I cannot remember where :unsure: ... My host updated a php.ini file and I have copied that to my Nexus home directory (so it's: www/nexus/php.ini) and I am still getting this error: The file /home/theloung/public_html/nexus/install/core/ipsclass.php has been encoded with the ionCube PHP Encoder and requires the free ioncube_loader_lin_5.1.so ionCube PHP Loader to be installed. Any advice or documentation would be appreciated, please.
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Server Optimization request
by Guest loccom- 6 replies
- 806 views
I have 4gb on my box running Dual Xeons and find my server slows down a little. I usually have around 500 - 700 at one time (mostly bots i think) Here is my config [mysqld] datadir=/var/lib/mysql socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock skip-locking skip-innodb query_cache_limit=1M query_cache_size=64M query_cache_type=1 max_connections=500 interactive_timeout=100 wait_timeout=100 connect_timeout=10 thread_cache_size=128 key_buffer=256M join_buffer=1M max_allowed_packet=16M table_cache=2048 record_buffer=1M sort_buffer_size=2M read_buffer_size=2M max_connect_errors=10 # Try number of CPU's*2 for thread_concurrency thread_concurrency=4 myisam_sort_buffe…
Last reply by CFGuru, -
Our forum averages about 200 online at once. We peak at around 500 to 600 during serious weather events. Our server has load issues all the time. It will be sitting at around .5 or 1.0 with about 200 or 300 users and bam sky rocket to 40 or 50 almost crashign the server. But not really when we hit our peak number of hits. It often occurs when the number of connections is much lower. This is a dedicated dual opteron server with 4GB of ram and software raid 250GB SATA drives. PHP, HTTPD and Mysql have been optimized until the cows come home by me and a very experienced linux admin. Still didn't really help. While I cannot make a direct link to iowait this is the las…
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Lighttpd + Fastcgi = 100% Cpu?
by Guest paulobrien- 12 replies
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I've just moved my site (modaco.com) from a rather old redhat 3 machine to a shiny new Ubuntu box, and moved from Apache to Lighttpd in the process - I have the latest lighttpd, mysql and php courtesy of dotdeb (awesome!) Everything is running OK, but for some reason the php5-cgi processes are munching up all the CPU time! Here's my current "ps -aux" output... USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0.0 0.0 5108 1972 ? Ss Sep26 0:02 /sbin/init root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Sep26 0:00 [migration/0] root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SN Sep26 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0] root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Sep26 0:00 [watchdog/0] r…
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Optimization Help Critical!
by Guest CVSz- 4 replies
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Hi, Can you please help tweaking my.ini for me? My Server Spec ( Going to change to Quad Xeon, DDR2, HDD RAID Soon but need to fix the problem first): Intel P4 2.8E DDR 2 GB HDD 120 GB IDE IIS as Web server MySQL 5.0 Right now, I have about 300-500 visitors and causing very high CPU load (almost 100%) and the temperature is getting higher every sec. (Almost 90c) Here is my.ini: Any idea!? Please help. Thanks a lot.
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Lighttpd - 95% Cpu Usage. Apache - All Ram Used, Swap Comes In
by Guest Bobsuch- 15 replies
- 786 views
Hi, I've hired rack911 to take care of my server, but it's just getting so frustrating, as it seems they can't fix my server/optimize it correctly. I just want some input as to what the problem is here. I got him to install lighttpd along with xcache. After about15-18 hours, the server's CPU slowly increases to be using 90-90%, giving me the 500 Internal Server Error. I've asked him to optimize xcache and lighttpd, but I keep getting these responses: Is that even correct? Or is he just getting lazy? ------------------------- So I got him to enable apache, and disable lighttpd. This time, it's the other way around. My ram get's completely used up…
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