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How To Optimize Forum Speed
by Guest DM-43568- 2 replies
- 872 views
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
- 534 views
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
- 418 views
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
- 451 views
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
- 450 views
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
- 1k views
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
- 697 views
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
- 583 views
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
- 709 views
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
- 808 views
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
- 562 views
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
- 4.3k views
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
- 962 views
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
- 826 views
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
- 660 views
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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Tweaks, please remember I didn't personally write these! Some may contain duplicate/conflicting tweaks! [*]Ineo: Getting max from your hardware. [*]Ineo: Server-level optimizations [*]Client Center KB: Changing Sessions table type to HEAP [*]Using Caching Methods I've been discovering other methods to speed up page views. Using Memcached Tell your sysadmin to install the memcached server set it to use 128mb ram or so and add this bit below in the conf_global.php, of course replace the info with your setup's. You'll also need the pecl memcache module. If you're running a cluster and the mysql server has a lower load I recomend to run memcached server on it. [*]…
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High Server Load
by Guest evoboy- 4 replies
- 693 views
Another question, sorry! Last night it looks like our dedicated server was attacked by hackers. No data has been lost but has made me notice other things! The forum has 250 odd members but is using up over 6 GIG of bandwidth!!!!!!!! What can I do to find out what's causing this or do I have to rely on my server hosts? Cheers :doh:
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Tips For Larger Forums 1 2
by Guest Sire_merged- 33 replies
- 2.5k views
One of my admins was just checking a new member who seemed to be trolling, and ran a search for posts made by the IP # which caused a backlog in mysql while the query ran. In the meantime, I created 2 new indexes which removed this long slow query from causing a bottleneck. It wasn't a huge deal before but now that we've got over 1 million posts it causes the server load to spike and mysql processes to wait for the query to finish. I took the board down briefly, and created 2 new indexes which solved this issue for us. create index ip_address on forums_posts(ip_address); create index ip_address on forums_members(ip_address); This worked well for us anyway. Are there…
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Are "megathreads" An Issue On Ipb?
by Guest JayX- 5 replies
- 784 views
On other boards I know they tend to close a thread down when it hits 1,000 posts... something IPB admins need to do, or is this not an issue due to the way the forum runs? I'm not sure the actual reason for this is.. extra server load?
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Locked Tables (mysql) And High Server Load: Help!
by Guest Fast Lane!- 4 replies
- 774 views
I notice that my server loads and memory have been spiking WAY high recently. I have php 4.4.2 and just upgraded to mysql 4.1.19. I have my my.cnf and httpd.conf tweaked and the mysqlreport program shows "a-ok" mysql performance. The issue is when the load (loads of 20+) and memory spike way high I noticed that the mysql and tcp connections sky rocket as well sometimes exceeding my mysql limit (which stops ipb from working). Very quickly after loads and memory return to normal (loads of 2-3). Here is a small portion of the output from the mysql command "show processlist;": (there are well over a hundred of these actually at a time) From the above it may indicate…
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