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.
What should I do, then? Send her a gift? Sacrifice? … Unholy fruit basket?
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Tom Scola - May 22, 2008 3:20:24 pm PDT #2224 of 4677
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§ ita § - May 22, 2008 3:27:16 pm PDT #2225 of 4677
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 4677
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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 4677
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 4677
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 4677
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 4677
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Do you periodically do database dumps? My biggest worry is that the database doesn't come up cleanly after a reboot.
§ ita § - May 22, 2008 4:38:21 pm PDT #2231 of 4677
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I had an automatic job set up, but it's been a while since I checked. Let me go see.
§ ita § - May 22, 2008 4:43:58 pm PDT #2232 of 4677
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Tom, let's put off the reboot until I've had a chance to do a full fresh site backup, shall we? For practice, and just in case?
In the meanwhile I guess here's a good as place as any to consolidate our requirements and hosts that can meet them.
sarameg - May 22, 2008 5:30:00 pm PDT #2233 of 4677
At work, we've had to resort to captchas (or whatever the fuck) for our notifications. PIA (I speak as a user) but worth it (as a server person.)