Classic self-hosted technical help
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Anyone tried LiteSpeed? It claims to be a 100% compatible replacement for Apache with superior DDoS protection, and much more efficient. Many people at WebHostingTalk report their loads dropping by half, or more. It's certainly not cheap, unless you qualify for the free std version. However, with DDoS becoming increasing simple for anyone to do, and potential saving in hardware, the price becomes more tolerable.
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Protection Against Scripts
by Guest Axel Wers- 2 replies
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I found one article about block exploit attempts. Can I use this in my .htaccess without damage of my forum? ########## Begin - Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits # # Block out any script trying to set a mosConfig value through the URL RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} mosConfig_[a-zA-Z_]{1,21}(=|\%3D) [OR] # Block out any script trying to base64_encode crap to send via URL RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode.*\(.*\) [OR] # Block out any script that includes a <script> tag in URL RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (\<|%3C).*script.*(\>|%3E) [NC,OR] # Block out any script trying to set a PHP GLOBALS variable via URL RewriteCond %{QU…
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Ipb Causing Slow Msql Queries, High Cpu Usage
by Guest Dewayne_G- 7 replies
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I just switched web hosting providers a couple of weeks ago and Invision migrated our forum across for us. We have tons of space and bandwidth available, but yesterday our site began experiencing "Temporary Suspension - site exceeds maximum cpu usage" warnings from our web hosting provider. When I contacted them this morning, they said it was coming from extremely high cpu usage during mysql queries of our Invision Powerboard. Does anyone have any idea what I might do to correct this? I have the text of one of the mysql_slow_query logs if that helps (one of numerous slow mysql query logs).
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Suggest Host
by Guest Root0101- 3 replies
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Hi, I'm interested to know where do you all host your ipb at. Can you all please post your host information in this thread?
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Timing Out Of Scripts
by Guest Phil Crane- 2 replies
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well i have a script im runnin on my forum that keeps timin out (white page) now on the forum imr unnign it on theres liek 6100 games i tested it on my test foruma nd i works (theres only 50 games ont hat one) at first i thougth it would be max execution or memory limit so i changed them to the below in php.ini: max_execution_time = 10000 memory_limit = 500mb Doing this has made no difference at all even after restarting the server. Is there soemthing im missing or something else i need to change because i cant even see any errors int he apache logs regarding the page timeout also is there a way i can view a mysql error log on the server as nothing is coming up…
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Lost Attachments In Move
by Guest David_B- 10 replies
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I just moved my site from one host to another. Both were VPS plans with WHM, and Virtuozzo. I attempted to move the site through WHM, but unfortunately I did not have enough free disk space at my old host to allow for this method. My new host suggested I "lighten the load" by backing up and cleaning my uploads folder. (I also did this with my arcade folder which contained over 400 megs) I copied the uploads folder over to my computer and proceeded to empty it for the transfer. I have not had enough disk space to do local backups through cPanel, so I have always FTPed the entire public_html folder to my computer and backed up my db through phpMyAdmin. So I was confident th…
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Changing My.cnf Values For My Server
by Guest SecondSight_merged- 7 replies
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Hello ! I'm trying to learn how to configure a server. I don't understand very well max_user_connections and max_connections : - What are they for exactly ? - What is a user exactly ? In my my.cnf file, I see : max_user_connections=1000 max_connections=2000 Since my board is a slow at the moment (too many users online) I was advised to change it to : max_user_connections=50 max_connections=850 The difference seems very large to me... What is special with my board it that : - At the moment, I'm having about 800/900 users online. - Many files are being downloaded. - Sphinx has been installed as the search engine. - xcache has been installed. - I hav…
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.htaccess Mod_rewrite
by Guest Neosoph- 10 replies
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How would I write a .htaccess file that would rewrite this link: http://www.ipsbeyond.com/forums/index.php into this link: http://www.ipsbeyond.com/forums/ Also, does that affect SEO in any way? I read something from google about mod_rewrite making it harder for search engines to index your site. Thanks, Aaron
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High Load :s
by Guest bwyatt- 2 replies
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Hey... I'm on a dedicated server, and everytime a user goes to my forum - the server usage shoots up to 7% just for that one user. Surely that can't be right. So when you have a few users on at a time, they're all using 7% each. I'm sure IPB is good on server usage, am I incorrect? :( Specs: Dedicated Server Intel P4 2.8GHz 2gb RAM http://forums.rctpyro.com
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How To Optimize Forum Speed
by Guest DM-43568- 2 replies
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Posts: 1,500,000 + Users: 150,000 + Forum speed is too slow... DB optimization wont help... Forum version 2.1.7 Forum is opening 5 seconds or more with 1000 users online. How to speed up forum?
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Banning Ip Range
by Guest Bobsuch- 7 replies
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Hey, I've read a lot of articles but I'm still somewhat confused. Say if I wanted to ban 120.*.*.*'s entire range. Would I input inside my firewall as this? 120.0.0.0/16 So it would ban all IP Addresses with 120 as the lead number? As some articles state that you put /32 or /64 at the end of the Address
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How To Identify Which Php Process Is Being A Resource Hog
by Guest Vanadium- 1 reply
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I know how to spot bottlenecks that are MySQL intensive, but how do I localize the "greedy" PHP processes that I see in top. I'm comfortable in shell, etc., so the solution doesn't have to be in the ACP. I realize that the resource intensive function may call functions in other PHP files, and I just can't think of an approach to get started. I've tried searching, at length, but you know how hard it can be to research questions that involve Three Letter Acronyms.
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{Nothing can be that urgent} Help: Something Is Eating Up The Ram.
by Guest impuLs1ve- 1 reply
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Something on my forum is eating up alot of RAM, or something because If I remove the entire forum, the website loads fine and when I put it back up, Its slow as hell or It goes down. I need a program that will determine what is eating up all the RAM or whats making so many SQL connections or something (My host is currently AFK so I can't do anything). Help. :[
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Ixed 4.4 Error.
by Guest impuLs1ve- 1 reply
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This error creates alot of big error_logs on my website (I had one that was 30MB), and want to solve this issue. I searched Google, and the only thing I found was that inxed.4.4.lin IS MISSING or the wrong version is installed. I told my host about it, but yeah. How do we fix this?
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Server Slow Down > Crash
by Guest joelle- 12 replies
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I already asked the IPB.Board support team but they couldn't help me. Since I switched from vbulletin to Invision Power Board I am getting a lot of server crashes. I am definately sure that the error comes from either from IPB.Board, IPB.Blog or from IP.Gallery. That is part of the error log: [client 74.6.22.226] PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/vhosts/joelle.de/httpdocs/modules/blog/lib/lib_cblocks.php on line 658 [client 66.249.72.239] PHP Warning: array_keys(): The first argument should be an array in /var/www/vhosts/joelle.de/httpdocs/cache/skin_cache/cacheid_3/skin_profile.php on line 1173 [client 66.249.72.239] PHP Warning: i…
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Slow Speeds
by Guest Myles Taylor_merged- 1 reply
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Okay, this is my very first experience with IPB as I've always used phpbb before. My friend and I, who both work at an ISP, had an idea for a forum and bought an IPB to run it on. We never had any problems with it but never got it off the ground either. I had a friend with a rather large forum (500-1000 posts per day, around 300 members) that was running on a free server and decided to move it over to our IPB board (not the database, just the board). We were noticing the board was running slow, so we moved it to a faster server. The board picked up speed dramatically and we opened the board for registration. Of course, activity grew by probably 6 or 7 times and the boa…
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Server Gd
by Guest Myles Taylor_merged- 1 reply
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Hello, We bought a Gallery and installed it, but are unable to upload pictures. I opened a ticket with IP.Services and this was their response.
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Error 500 When Load Is High. Anybody Else?
by Guest W13- 2 replies
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I've noticed that when we start hitting and going past the 1 million posts mark, we begin to see tons of Error 500 "Internal Server Error"s. I have to go and restart Lighttpd to bring the forums back online again. What's odd is that page-generation time is less than 0.1 sec all this time... it's not like the server shouldn't be able to handle it. It just peaks really fast. Anybody else this happens to?
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$$ Looking To Hire A Mysql/ipb Linux Server Expert..
by Guest 240sxer- 7 replies
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Hello, Over the past few months, we've been having an issue were every day around 11am-3pm, server load spikes up to over 50 and crashes where we cant SSH to it or restart it unless we pull the switch from our providers.. And when we do restart, the server comes back with a few tables corrupt, including ib_posts which is over 1.5 gb large and it takes forever to repair (5+ hours running myisamchk -o). We've tried everything from reinstalling forum, reimaging server, trying different mysql settings, upgrading to FC 5, upgrading to mysql 5, apache, php - still the same thing. If someone things they can help, we're willing to pay the minute we see results. Let me …
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Server Move
by Guest THL- 7 replies
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Whats the best way to make a troublefree move from my existing host to the new server....do I alter some of the settings within the config.php file to point the forum on the new server to the existing database until the dns transfer is complete??
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How To Optimize And Secure A Virtual Private Server (vps)
by Guest Andrew.S.- 1 reply
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Please Note: Not all of these were made by me, So Kudos to the creator that made them. These topics are gathered around WHT This topic covers a wide range of methods for securing and optimizing your VPS. Secure cPanel/WHM and the Root User on VPS: Checking for formmail: Form mail is used by hackers to send out spam email, by relay and injection methods. If you are using matts script or a version of it, you may be in jeopardy. Command to find pesky form mails: find / -name "[Ff]orm[mM]ai*" CGIemail is also a security risk: find / -name "[Cc]giemai*" Command to disable form mails: chmod a-rwx /path/to/filename (a-rwx translates to all types, no read, write or …
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Knowing What's Causing Server Load Rise 1 2
by Guest SecondSight_merged- 47 replies
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Hello ! This morning, I got a server load of 8.80 making my board impossible to use for about one minute. It happened twice. I recorded the mysql processes in a txt.file (attached here). Is it possible to know what is causing the server load ? I had only 50 users online and my IPB version is 2.2.2. My server is a Dual Xeon 2.4 with 4 GigaBytes RAM, PHP is 4.4.6 (apache), MySQL is MYSQL 4.1.21-standard-log. Thank you for your help ! :)
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Dedicated Server
by Guest THL- 6 replies
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Just got a dedicated server from 1and1 how should I have my server settings ? WebDav on off ACTIVE FastCGI on off INACTIVE SSL support on off ACTIVE Perl as Apache module on off INACTIVE PHP module on off ACTIVE Memory usage kB 131072 kB Process timeout seconds 60 seconds Maximum simultaneous processes 100 Should perl as apache module be active? Is the memory usage ok I have 1GB setup, what about process timeout too... Thanks for your help! :)
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My Host Shut Me Down Citing Very High Server Load Caused By Forums/ind
by Guest rakaposhi- 15 replies
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Have a major problem - my forums caused a high server load, leading my host to shut me down. I've been re-enabled since, but its happened a couple of times before over the past year, and I have no idea why. I'm on a shared server, with low traffic, on the latest version of IP Board, Gallery and Blog, only got 2 mods installed, and yesterday IPS support checked it out and said they found no issues. Here is what happened this time: "Last evening, your web server paged into our Urge nt team for a high load issue. Upon logging into the server, it was found to have a load near 20. Most web servers run under a load of one, with latency starting around a load of 2, 20 i…
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Ipb2.2.1 Causes Frequent Extremely High Server Load
by Guest lkcnnet- 7 replies
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It appears a IPB2.2.1 board is causing frequent extremely high server load on my server. This is a dedicated server with 4GB RAM. The IPB2.2.1 board is the busiest application, with a large mysql database (about 1.8GB). There are several other websites/applications but less busy and with much smaller database. Recently the server is experiencing frequent (from once an hour to once several hours) extremely (load average >100) high server load. The server load often increased quickly from 1.0-2.0 to >100, while the number of tasks (processes I think) increased from about 200 to >500. All these happened within about one minute. When I had chance to check mysql…
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