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Title: amiga.org downtime?
Post by: Tomas on May 08, 2006, 05:08:45 PM
For the last 3-4 days i have noticed that Amiga.org has stopped responding at around same time of the day each day. What happens is that i either get no response at all, or it just tries to load while it timesout. Is this a known problem??
It happened again today just an hour ago, and just started working again now..

I dont think it is on my end, as all other websites work just fine.
Title: Re: amiga.org downtime?
Post by: amigagr on May 08, 2006, 05:15:15 PM
i have the same problem the lats days too. some times a.org don't load at all and some others loads some pages and some others don't. not having problems with other sites at the same time.
Title: Re: amiga.org downtime?
Post by: dvvrue95 on May 08, 2006, 07:29:26 PM
Yes,

had same problems today, time outs when trying to access amiga.org site through afternoon in UK.
Just prior to this attempt I couldn't log in - kept getting Xoops?? internal errors when clicking on login.

Ian
Title: Re: amiga.org downtime?
Post by: amigagr on May 08, 2006, 07:33:45 PM
This page cannot be displayed due to an internal error.

If you are the administrator of this site, please visit the Xoops Troubleshooting Page for assistance.

Error [Xoops]: Unable to connect to database in file class/database/databasefactory.php line 34
Title: Re: amiga.org downtime?
Post by: Argo on May 08, 2006, 08:54:03 PM
I just noticed the problem today. Must have been visiting at the good times. Wayne is aware of the issue. For some reason the database server is abnormally very busy to the point that it is missing requests.
Stay tuned...
Title: Re: amiga.org downtime?
Post by: on May 08, 2006, 09:50:01 PM
The problem can be summed up like this;

92 user(s) are online

Members: 33
Guests: 59

What this means is that at any given time, hundreds of connections are being made to the database for Amiga.org, and even more when you consider the fact that the site is not alone on the server.  Every dynamic site has this problem as they get more and more popular.

I'm discussing it right now with the planetxoops guys and they  might recommend that we move to a dedicated server.  If that happens, we might be in a bit of a pickle due to the expense involved.

Sorry for the inconvenience this is causing folks, but let's just wait and see, shall we? It's not as though there are dozens of alternatives.

Wayne
Title: Re: amiga.org downtime?
Post by: amigagr on May 08, 2006, 09:54:15 PM
of course we can wait and see. don't forget that all these years with the amiga situation we have learn the lesson of patience more than good enough :crazy:
Title: Re: amiga.org downtime? -- response
Post by: on May 08, 2006, 09:56:54 PM
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I see a lot of those posts are in UK, Greece, Norway, etc. During the night GMT -0600 our time, the nightly backups run which halt your sql database for a few minutes to backup the data. Depending on the size of your database,
this can be real quick or real long.

That's the only explanation I can think of for it happening around the same time every day.

The backups start around 1am our time, I don't know at what time it gets to your account, but this is late evening over there where those people are.

Also, I'm working on building a dedicated MySQL box for you and another high traffic database site on that server. This should help your throughput a lot on the SQL side of your site.

Give me a week or two to get that going.

Chuck
Title: Re: amiga.org downtime?
Post by: DaBest on May 08, 2006, 10:04:23 PM
Weeeeeeeeeeeee
I love it. It means that the site is real busy.
The more users teh better..... I think :-D
Title: Re: amiga.org downtime?
Post by: Hyperspeed on May 09, 2006, 12:29:29 AM
To raise cash for the upgrade we could always sell pancakes and lemonade at the side of the road...
Title: Re: amiga.org downtime?
Post by: Argo on May 09, 2006, 12:58:05 AM
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by Hyperspeed on 2006/5/8 19:29:29    To raise cash for the upgrade we could always sell pancakes and lemonade at the side of the road...


I was thinking coupons, priced at say $50 USD... :-P
Title: Re: amiga.org downtime?
Post by: Methuselas on May 09, 2006, 01:58:27 AM
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Argo wrote:
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by Hyperspeed on 2006/5/8 19:29:29    To raise cash for the upgrade we could always sell pancakes and lemonade at the side of the road...


I was thinking coupons, priced at say $50 USD... :-P



HAHAHAHAHAHAHA I was thinking the EXACT, same thing!
Title: Re: amiga.org downtime?
Post by: on May 09, 2006, 02:29:11 AM
Sorry, no selling of coupons or a drive to raise money...  :)

Wayne
Title: Re: amiga.org downtime?
Post by: Methuselas on May 09, 2006, 03:53:29 AM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v327/arikel_tolifen/pancakes.jpg)



 :lol:


We could always try and kidnapp Kees'socks. I remember they were quite popular in the day. I'm sure they'd fetch a hefty price.  :-P