Do you periodically do database dumps? My biggest worry is that the database doesn't come up cleanly after a reboot.
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I had an automatic job set up, but it's been a while since I checked. Let me go see.
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.
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.)
I just heard from meara, who says
- board has been slow and fickle on and off all day
- now unable to get in to www.buffistas.org
- was able to get in to buffistas.org (with no www), but was logged out when she got there
- even then, loading v. slow and couldn't post before timing out
other parts of the internets are fine.
Am having horrid time posting and refreshing the board this evening...as is Amych...
Huh. And now it's fine, AND apparently during all that slow waiting times, it was secretly posting our posts! Interesting....Fickle, fickle board!
I'm poking around right now, so response time may very well be fickle. I'm also going to wake up in the middle of the night and take the board down for a quick full database backup.
So I rebooted the server this morning. Let's see if things are a little zippier now.
[edit: apparently not]
buffistas.org (without the www.) seems to be moving at a more or less normal pace.
I can't get the www. version to even show up.