It's possible that me just going to see how much email was in the filk mailbox slowed us down that much. How incredibly painful.
Time to slay. Vampires of the world beware!
Buffybot ,'Dirty Girls'
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Do you have problems, concerns, or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
§ ita § - May 22, 2008 2:00:40 pm PDT #2221 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Laga - May 22, 2008 2:38:09 pm PDT #2222 of 4673
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I don't mind captcha as long as it's decipherable. I recently gave up on registering for something because after the third try I still couldn't figure out what the captcha was supposed to be.
Jessica - May 22, 2008 2:46:40 pm PDT #2223 of 4673
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Kitten captcha, maybe? Of course I'm already registered so it won't affect me one way or the other.
Tom Scola - May 22, 2008 3:20:24 pm PDT #2224 of 4673
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Tom? What are your opinions of our server's health?
I think we need more RAM.
I also think rebooting the server would help a lot in the short term, though.
§ ita § - May 22, 2008 3:27:16 pm PDT #2225 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think we need more RAM.
One of our two upgrade options takes us to 1GB instead of 512MB. That will cost us $40 more per month than what we have now. The other option that keeps us at 512 and takes us from a 2.6GHz Celeron to a 2.5GHz P4 is an increase of $10/month.
What do you recommend?
As for rebooting, do you want to take that in your hands? You're better suited than I am to catch anything that didn't come up right automatically.
Tom Scola - May 22, 2008 3:30:13 pm PDT #2226 of 4673
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
What do you recommend?
Seriously looking at other vendors.
As for rebooting, do you want to take that in your hands?
Is tomorrow morning (around 7:00am EDT) OK?
amych - May 22, 2008 3:40:00 pm PDT #2227 of 4673
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Seriously looking at other vendors.
Not my call, but, Yeah, this. I don't know the details of our current hosting, but that much more every month for a one-time install of a stick of RAM and/or a version of PHP that's coming up on 4 years old now?
§ ita § - May 22, 2008 3:40:42 pm PDT #2228 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Seriously looking at other vendors.
Before a recoding effort? I say that because I'm not sure we'll need dedicated hosting at a new vendor, and I'd hate to lock ourselves into it for a given time period if we can write ourselves out of it here.
That having been said--I'm not sure how long it will take to write out of it here, and perhaps that's as well done as somewhere else.
Okay. What's on your need list for a new vendor?
From a development point of view, I'm looking for PHP >5, MySQL >=5, PostgreSQL >8. From an admin-lite point of view, a control panel of comparable functionality to Plesk, but I really don't know what's out there.
Is tomorrow morning (around 7:00am EDT) OK?
I certainly have no problem with it.
§ ita § - May 22, 2008 3:42:57 pm PDT #2229 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
that much more every month for a one-time install of a stick of RAM and/or a version of PHP that's coming up on 4 years old now?
No, see, we get a whole new server.
No, I have no idea how that hardware can possibly be *new* in 2008, but that's how it's presented.
Ick. I'm getting horrible blanchy thoughts at the database migration effort. Yay...no. But what must be done, must be done.
Tom Scola - May 22, 2008 3:55:42 pm PDT #2230 of 4673
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Do you periodically do database dumps? My biggest worry is that the database doesn't come up cleanly after a reboot.