I noticed last night that there were a couple times when a thread would tell me it had new poosts but when I clicked over I had read them already.
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Do you have problems, concerns, or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
Laga - May 01, 2008 11:48:00 am PDT #1628 of 4673
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Fred Pete - May 01, 2008 11:50:01 am PDT #1629 of 4673
Ann, that's a ferret.
Over the last couple of days, I've seen a couple of "post 213 of 212" type things.
§ ita § - May 01, 2008 12:07:36 pm PDT #1630 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If you think these issues are bugworthy, make sure you're putting them in the bug tracker. I can't guarantee that'll make them go away, but it's a good list mechanism. I will need specifics about thread and post numbers and times, though.
Amy - May 02, 2008 6:16:52 am PDT #1631 of 4673
Because books.
Pages are loading quickly for me, but posting still takes a while. Like, a noticeable while. Just FYI.
§ ita § - May 05, 2008 7:51:38 am PDT #1632 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I poked at the board hosts to find out what we'd have to do to get to PHP 5+ and PostgreSQL 8+ as has been discussed in the past. They suggested a new server, naturally, with a new version of Plesk, at $10 more per month.
Is this market standard? I do remember the last time we had this discussion the Plesk upgrade wasn't on the table from them, but PHP 5 at least had been out for quite a while.
I'm searching through the thread, and it looks like this is the normal time for my annual CAN I HAZ POSTGREASQL?
Of course, now that I've bumped into Ruby on Rails it's become apparent that my ancient maiden aunt could code the board in her sleep, but there you go.
§ ita § - May 06, 2008 4:29:10 am PDT #1633 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Nothing? From no one?
I feel that we're locked into a cycle that to get anywhere near today's versions of software we have to commit to more monthly money.
As is, I think we're locked into a dedicated server. It will take some re-architecture to free us from that. Thing is, I'm averse to that re-architecture in yesterday's tech. PHP 4 has been end-of-life for a year or so now. There are other improvements it seems silly not to address while in the code, silly to wait until next time.
JenP - May 06, 2008 7:03:44 am PDT #1634 of 4673
Unsurprisingly, all I can contribute to the tech side of things is, "Whatever you all think is the best plan," and "I'll happily contribute to support whatever is needed."
meara - May 06, 2008 8:51:56 am PDT #1635 of 4673
Yeah, I'm all "Well, I have a job again, so I can probably afford to send a little money if we need it...um....go team?"
Kevin - May 06, 2008 8:58:42 am PDT #1636 of 4673
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
PHP 4 is actually end of life now, so isn't being maintained. This forces your hand - if you want to stay alive, you gotta upgrade as sooner or later you'll have a security breach or some such.
That said, if you go for Ruby on Rails you're severely limiting your hosting options. A vast, vast majority of hosts won't touch it.
I actually use nearlyfreespeech.net for hosting nowadays. It's pay-per-usage, clustered FreeBSD hosting. Really, really good.
§ ita § - May 06, 2008 9:03:48 am PDT #1637 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, the Ruby on Rails wasn't a serious suggestion. It's something I might work on to teach myself but that's not this thread's business.
I think we might already have RoR on this box anyway. And I know I have it on my two main web hosts. But that's tangential.
We're wedged into a corner, and we're going to be wedged into a corner every time one of the versions of the legs of LAMP goes EOL. I'd at least like a shot to code out from behind that, to get a more flexible and forgiving data model working. For $10/month to start.