Forum Migration didn't take -- We'll try again in a couple days

[Forum Boss]

Guys, Sorry for the outage Friday night. Things looked very good in our testing, but then when we moved the database over, things started to unravel. We think there may be a physical problem with the hard drives on our new server. When we can diagnose that problem we'll give it another try.

In one sense, this is a good thing, because if there's a bad drive in the box, it's better to learn about it now.

Our plan is to continue to operate the Forum on the existing server through the weekend and then give it another go Monday night.

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[bozo699]

Paul,
Thank you and all involved in trying to make a great site even greater, I am sure you, Chris and all involved will get it all worked out Monday night,....thanks again.
Wayne.

 

[Forum Boss]

Paul,
Thank you and all involved in trying to make a great site even greater, I am sure you, Chris and all involved will get it all worked out Monday night,....thanks again.
Wayne.

Wayne, this was a very weird situation. We tested the thing a couple days ago with the database captured from Thursday. Everything ran like a charm. After the database was moved over, Jay and I did a click-fest for about 15 minutes, testing every feature we could find. Zero problems. Then Jay open the site up. Even though only about 10 guys got it, we immediately started to get disk errors and i/o errors. Also the displayed performance was inconsistent from one browser to another, even from one of my computers to another -- all hooked to the same router. We still think the new server is the right solution, but something is interfering with normal disk functioning -- and it wasn't a load issue because we only had a few users online.

 

[bozo699]

Paul,
Thank you and all involved in trying to make a great site even greater, I am sure you, Chris and all involved will get it all worked out Monday night,....thanks again.
Wayne.

Wayne, this was a very weird situation. We tested the thing a couple days ago with the database captured from Thursday. Everything ran like a charm. After the database was moved over, Jay and I did a click-fest for about 15 minutes, testing every feature we could find. Zero problems. Then Jay open the site up. Even though only about 10 guys got it, we immediately started to get disk errors and i/o errors. Also the displayed performance was inconsistent from one browser to another, even from one of my computers to another -- all hooked to the same router. We still think the new server is the right solution, but something is interfering with normal disk functioning -- and it wasn't a load issue because we only had a few users online.

I saw there were only a few users but thought you were still trying to get it up so I tried to log out but was unable to so I just X'ed out when I returned it was working great, figured you had it until I saw this thread, Disk problem , or maybe a compatibility problem?? I know you and Jay will get it, I do not do much computer work but I do quit a bit of PLC work (programable logic control) and use my laptop to do the programming, sometimes I want to pull my hair out as one thing isn't compatible with another and so on a so forth
Wayne.

 

[Jay Christopherson]

Aargh. Very frustrating.

Guys, Sorry for the outage Friday night. Things looked very good in our testing, but then when we moved the database over, things started to unravel. We think there may be a physical problem with the hard drives on our new server. When we can diagnose that problem we'll give it another try.

In one sense, this is a good thing, because if there's a bad drive in the box, it's better to learn about it now.

Our plan is to continue to operate the Forum on the existing server through the weekend and then give it another go Monday night.

PM

 

[ReedG]

The site is blazing fast here this morning, I thought it was the new server. Hope the diagnostics will point out something. Feel the Peace ...

 

[Forum Boss]

Jay has made some important findings today about HD optimization. We were also getting some issues as some of the images (buttons/icons) were, oddly enough, hard-coded to the current server by one of our other developers. We're not sure why that was done.

In any case we're learning new stuff by the hour and this should all help performance when we get the new system all sussed out. Very few server solutions come configured correctly for a FORUM application which is actually very demanding. Lots of files, database constantly changing, hundreds of simultaneous users. Running the old 6mmBR.com website was much simpler (and cheaper!). But we had 3,000 forum members 6 years ago and now we're approaching 17,000, so we've got to move from donkey cart to bullet train.

PM

 

[bozo699]

Jay has made some important findings today about HD optimization. We were also getting some issues as some of the images (buttons/icons) were, oddly enough, hard-coded to the current server by one of our other developers. We're not sure why that was done.

In any case we're learning new stuff by the hour and this should all help performance when we get the new system all sussed out. Very few server solutions come configured correctly for a FORUM application which is actually very demanding. Lots of files, database constantly changing, hundreds of simultaneous users. Running the old 6mmBR.com website was much simpler (and cheaper!). But we had 3,000 forum members 6 years ago and now we're approaching 17,000, so we've got to move from donkey cart to bullet train.

PM

Paul,
I figured it wasn't a big fix just a small fix that caused a big problem, that is usually what I find when I haven't got some programming quite right in a processor, it's the one little bit or input that I forgot or have latched in the wrong place that caused all the difficulties. I have over 3000 posts, there are other guy's/gal's with high post counts and thousands of sold classifieds, after a certain amount of time only a small number of people, usually quests rummaging through all those old post's, many many with just a one word comment,like (agreed) could you,...or we delete them and clear up a ton of bandwidth,...would that help at all?
One of my good friends on here, shortgrass has one of the best signatures I have seen,......(Post count and I.Q. are two different things!) I agree with that statement, if reducing my number's would help in the slightest of ways, I wouldn't hesitate! or for people that the number matters maybe there is a way to retain the actual post count for [ STATUS ]and remove the actual OLD posts??.....just a couple of random thoughts.
Wayne.
Wayne.