A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
gotta wonder... how much, for 30 GB a month?
That's not where the money lies. As currently implemented, the code hits a MySQL bug which means we eat CPU cycles like Buffista F2Fers on a candy necklace.
It means we need a dedicated server, although the rest of our more quantifiable stats are certainly within shared server specs.
Tommyrot's well on the way to making changes we hope will alleviate this, and once we've confirmed that, we can reassess our capacity.
I think it's great that you want to support the site, naturally. But I don't think we should rely on our users being exceptionally flush. We need to do due diligence, both in terms of design and code, and in terms of usage.
The BEAST that is the pace of Minearverse probably eclipses our Angel and Buffy threads combined
I dunno. It seemed to have quieted down in there because Tim hadn't shown up for a while. Of course, then he did.
Hey, maybe the next thread should be
Minearverse 3: Will Someone Please Get This Man a Job?
Kristen, you have to make him a T-shirt: "Will Kill for Food"
Kristen, you have to make him a T-shirt: "Will Kill for Food"
I think you misspelt 'Pleasure'.
I don't think he'd find that funny. Also, he knows where I live.
Did we ever try using persistent MySQL connections? Did it make a difference.
We need to do due diligence, both in terms of design and code, and in terms of usage.
Oh, agreed. I guess I understand. But a dedicated server is pretty much a one-time investment, right? Or am i just totally confused on the way things work? Can you not provide your own server to whatever ISP is giving you access, with your own hard drive and CPU and whatnot? Why would CPU cycles provide a continuous expense?
Maybe I'm just dumb. It's been known to happen in the past.
Did we ever try using persistent MySQL connections? Did it make a difference.
No, we didn't -- but if we need to go deeply into it, we should more neatly take this to BBaBB. Tuning MySQL to make persistence more effective would also lock us out of a shared server.
edit: NC -- let's take yours to BBaBB too, huh?
the Chief Engineer is standing over there saying the board canna hold if we push it.
"Scotty! I...need...morebandwidth. The lives...of...some fifteen hundred or so Buffistas...arewrappedin this board. I. Need. That. Power. NOW, Scotty!"
This is what happens when I get bored:
Should the Angel Spoilers thread be closed, or are we living in hope of movie(s)?
