Is afterdawn runnning slower than usual?? Im having to wait a good 5-10 seconds, sometime longer, when reading threads. Im on DSl and its only happening on afterdawn. I know ur changing a lot, just letting you kow. Also, someone tell that idiot Rob... (forgot the rest) to stop having a go at me in a real abusive manner on every thread. Cheers Chris
Last four days or so have been pretty bad in terms of server stability. We switched one of our servers on Sunday -- the one that hosts ads, dawnload.net and cd-rw.org -- to new hardware and this hardware has caused us some big time headache. On Monday, the ad server crashed twice for short period on time, on Tuesday it went burning down and was running FSCK for good 5 hours before it came back. Since Tuesday it has been relatively stable, but on yesterday the advertisement database server went down (the server was up, mySQL just decided to shut itself for whatever reason) and was down for 2h. This morning, third server, the one that hosts forums, was nicely up and running, but Apache has shut itself -- again, without any particular reason -- and forums were down for 90mins. Only actual modification we've done to the site apart from server switching is changes to the ad delivery. Also, the external links on forums now are tagged with interstitial ads for testing purposes. I checked the page loading times and they are at appx. 50-250ms per page, which is pretty average -- but I will monitor the page load times during the peak hours (at around 2100 GMT) and see how the site performs then. ...and of course all of this mess has happened when Ketola, who is normally responsible of our network, is on holiday Oh, for operating system freaks -- all of the three servers that we've had issues with during the last couple of days, are running Linux/Apache. Anyway, within next two months or so, we have plans to implement a failover cluster where all parts of the site are being mirrored on 2-4 servers, which should make sure that these kinds of things will never happen again. ...and all of this started as a hobby with one P2/350 server bit over four years ago...
Thanks for the detailed info. Its a good hoby you started that long time ago. Got a big company here big daddy. Well done to you! ;-) Chris
Nah, it's still a hobby -- just a very, very out-of-control hobby, but hobby -- I don't work for aD on full-time basis, but instead drag my a**e to office 4 days a week and work for someone else
