Sorry for unavailable forum!

[ghisler(Author)]

It seems that the SQL database server crashed sometimes last night (September 2-3). Unfortunately I was away all day, and noticed it only tonight, thanks to some users who informed me. It should be OK again now. Sorry for the inconvenience!

[Sheepdog]

It seems that the SQL database server crashed sometimes last night (September 2-3). Unfortunately I was away all day, and noticed it only tonight, thanks to some users who informed me. It should be OK again now. Sorry for the inconvenience!

joke

I thought some users that were disappointed about the moderators had hacked the forum

/joke

Fine that it works again now.

sheepdog

[deus-ex]

joke
No, the moderators where trying to make the forum "moderators only".
Less trouble and way easier to maintain.
/joke

Regards, deus-ex.

[Maxwish]

I noticed some other glitches the last few days. Maybe the new forum hacks are so so stable ?

[AlleyKat]

With the couple of mods on this forum, I don't think anything is unstable about the scripts. The .MYI-error is due to a partial database index file, and is an exclusive SQL problem (and very easily fixed).

OTOH, if the server is updated to php5 it may cause problems - which could show itself in 'glitches' in the mods (phpBB core is almost fully php5-compatible as of 2.0.9). That's fixable too, ofcourse...

[ghisler(Author)]

I noticed some other glitches the last few days. Maybe the new forum hacks are so so stable ?

I didn't yet install the new forum hacks for hiding threads. The forum has been unchanged for a while (since the release of 2.0..

The problem is that I'm on a shared hosting server. I find it too risky to move to a dedicated server since I don't have any experience in managing such a server. A badly managed server would be hacked within a few hours, unfortunately, because the the many security holes.

[Sheepdog]

The problem is that I'm on a shared hosting server. I find it too risky to move to a dedicated server since I don't have any experience in managing such a server. A badly managed server would be hacked within a few hours, unfortunately, because the the many security holes.

So I think it's a good decision to stay on this shared hosting server. It's much better to live with the known occasional troubles while connecting to the board than to see the server hacked and the forum lie down like recently maxwishs Club total.

sheepdog

[Lefteous]

2ghisler(Author)

The problem is that I'm on a shared hosting server. I find it too risky to move to a dedicated server since I don't have any experience in managing such a server. A badly managed server would be hacked within a few hours, unfortunately, because the the many security holes.

Yes a root server would be bad choice. What about changing to a "hosted dedicated server"? No managing trouble but enough cpu power.
Here is an example: Ready-to-run-Server from schlund&partner. There may be less expensive offers. It's just an example.

[AlleyKat]

The problem is that I'm on a shared hosting server.

I promise you, it happens even if you run your own, dedicated machine. Powerouts and unexpected restarts just happens.

My own current uptime is 5 days, 4 hours, 44 minutes, and on this machine I host around 20 forums. TEST forums only, as a matter of fact. My own 'real' forum is also hosted on a large shared danish host. Professionals are needed to run webservers.

Ready-to-run-Server from schlund&partner. There may be less expensive offers. It's just an example.

Actually I think thats ok prices for dedicated servers yeah. But if we're talking only for the forums, there also exist dedicated forum hosts nowadays, who even more tightly knows how to get the performance out of the servers (like http://readybb.com/ - also just an example), at an affordable price. However, I don't think there's any reason to change hosting at all? The response time both for webpage and SQL seems very nice as it is now - I don't have any complaints, anyway.

For this particular case of failure, the host can help this by running a full database repair - but on shared hosts this could take long long minutes extra in downtime (thousands and thousands of tables on a dedicated sql server), so most choose not to. The db will only have errors for those very few tables that were open at that particular moment of crash, and any optimization or repair command on the table will fix it automatically.

[Lefteous]

2AlleyKat
The problem of the current solution is that other websites which share wespace with this forum requires a lot of cpu power. This problem makes the forum unavailable quite often.

Actually I think thats ok prices for dedicated servers yeah.

I can't find the thread but ghisler wrote something about "up to 100€" a while ago.

[ghisler(Author)]

Thanks for all your suggestions! readybb.com seems to be a shared hoster. When all users use a board, the server will be much more loaded than on a web server where only some users use scripting. Therefore it's probably not an alternative to my current solution.

What about changing to a "hosted dedicated server"? No managing trouble but enough cpu power.

Sounds good! But 150 Euro/month is a bit much, and that's just the entry level package. My current shared hosting solution is only 15$/month, and it's not guaranteed that the 20x more expensive solution would be any better. What I'm missing is something in between, e.g. a hoster which hosts perhaps 5 medium volume sites for e.g. $50-$100/month. The forum traffic really isn't that high, only about 5 GB/month with 1.5 million hits. It's probably the other users which make the forum slow.

[franck8244]

I know a "new" swiss company for web hosting .
They are not really expensive and have good reference :

web hosting

the "true" company is heptago

[Clo]

2franck8244
Hello Franck !
- It seems really good and cheap…

Kind regards, cordialement,
Claude
Clo
Thread edit: Thread title changed

[mod]
I have deleted the double posting.

Lefteous (Moderator) [/mod]

[deus-ex]

One of the moderators should remind the moderator not to doublepost.

Regards, deus-ex.

P.S.: Hello Clo, how's it going? Did'nt hear from you in a while...


[mod]
Please inform me of such problems by sending my an email instead of posting here. Thank you!

Lefteous (Moderator) [/mod]

[Clo]

2deus-ex

Hello Dirk !
- Sorry, caused by… the forum which had hung !
- I ask for fix up that, I can't do by myself!
- News soon…

 VG
Claude
Clo