Transition to new Hosting Infrastructure Complete-Your Help Needed!

[hostingtechs]

Hello everyone,

This thread is to gather opinions on the new hosting infrastructure, as well as any errors you encounter.

For the technically interested, the site is running on a cluster of servers. The front end is provided by Varnish HTTP Accelerator. This communicates via localnet to another server running nginx. This server is the primary web server, and also runs the MySQL server that the site uses for its databases. This nginx server delegates requests to 3 upstream nodes we have set up. These 3 upstream nodes are running factcgi, with php5.

When a request comes in, the Varnish web front server first checks to see whether the requested content is cached. If it's cached, and it's determined that the "expires" header is in the future, Varnish serves it directly from the memory cache. If the requested resource is static, it requests it from the nginx server, and simultaniously sends it to the client as well as adding it to the cache. If the content requested is dynamic, Varnish sends the request to Nginx, nginx offloads it to an upstream server, and then sends the completed page back to Varnish. Varnish is currently set up to maintain a round-robin cache of elements, so items that are requested often, such as the header banner, are always in memory, and can be served in milliseconds. Have questions? Want more info? Want tutorials/help setting up your own? Feel free to post as well.

Alex

[DoctorWho]

I got like a 503 Error and it said Meditation when I reloaded the New Posts screen. Will the error codes have these word associations?
Bill "the Doctor"

[Celine]

lol Dr. that was funny

[kriya]

Posted by DoctorWho (here)
I got like a 503 Error and it said Meditation when I reloaded the New Posts screen. Will the error codes have these word associations?
Bill "the Doctor"

I know, it says GURU MEDITATION.........maybe its a hint!

Love,

Kriya

[Bomack]

The 'View First Unread' does not go away (reset) unless I refresh the page.

[morguana]

i cant do jack **** at the moment, am sooooooo very naffed off, i would like you to put my pages etc back where they should be, with links and threads in the right place. am trying very hard NOT to swear like a navvy. i can do nothing please sort it ASAP. i can help any of my fellow avalonians and am totally peeved off with all of this, its been going on way too long now.

[the_IRF]

i had a lot of trouble initially just getting through the invitation process. Richard's patience and that of Staff helped me accomplish this, then i went and hit the submit buttons incorrectly and broke the link. It turns out i had to restart my modem.

Is it possible to change fonts, color, etc. here...

To make it possible to do so would make the site more pleasant to read... if someone had the feel for such things...

For someone as competent with links and the like, such as Morguana, swearing like a seaman probably is tempting...

[hostingtechs]

Posted by morguana (here)
i cant do jack **** at the moment, am sooooooo very naffed off, i would like you to put my pages etc back where they should be, with links and threads in the right place. am trying very hard NOT to swear like a navvy. i can do nothing please sort it ASAP. i can help any of my fellow avalonians and am totally peeved off with all of this, its been going on way too long now.

Morguana,

Can you please elaborate on the trouble you're having? Screenshots, etc are helpful as well.

[morguana]

i am very sorry the irf, but i have never publicaly sworn before, and when one is trying hard to help members and do invites (which insidently i have had to do twice this eve as originals didnt go though) and when one cant do anything for members (delete double posts, delete a thread that is duplicated by another member, etc etc) one feels like swearing like a banshee, which i just have done and feel much better for it, thx fellow mods for not being offended
blessing to all and now to stick my nose in a really good book, nighty night
m

hi hosts i have no idea how to take screen shots and to be honest right now i just want to say bon nuit

[Snowbird]

Gosh, I don't want to speak too loudly, but everything from here is running bea-u-ti-fully! Thanks!

[Anchor]

Morguana

It's ok

John..

[Kra]

How about mail notices ? can i get those back ?

[hostingtechs]

Posted by Kra (here)
How about mail notices ? can i get those back ?

Will do, I noticed this myself so we will get it fixed.

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Karl

[morguana]

hi hosts, i have an apology to make, am very sorry for blaming you for not being able to do anything yesturday, seems that my internet connection was slighty squiffy, how ever i still have a strange page layout atm, and as soon as i have done screen shot will mail it to you, seems that due to slow loading of pages the information lay out is not being processed properly. this is not my end as other internet use is ok
my apologies
m

[hostingtechs]

Posted by morguana (here)
hi hosts, i have an apology to make, am very sorry for blaming you for not being able to do anything yesturday, seems that my internet connection was slighty squiffy, how ever i still have a strange page layout atm, and as soon as i have done screen shot will mail it to you, seems that due to slow loading of pages the information lay out is not being processed properly. this is not my end as other internet use is ok
my apologies
m

Hi Morguana,

I am going to re-quote everything as I said in the email I sent you.

No worries about yesterday, I understand how frustrated you are and you have a right to be after all of this downtime and these issues. Hopefully we've gotten things resolved once and for all though now.

As for the screen shot, thank you, it is very helpful. To me, it looks like your browser is not fully rendering the page. Can you try these below in order, and let me know if any of them work?

1. Change the vbulletin theme to another option
2. Try another browser
3. Try another computer

Because we haven't gotten any other reports of this issue, it sounds like it is something local on your computer that is keeping the rest of the page from loading.

Let me know what your discoveries are please :-)

Thanks!


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Karl

[Majorion]

Posted by morguana (here)
hi hosts, i have an apology to make, am very sorry for blaming you for not being able to do anything yesturday, seems that my internet connection was slighty squiffy, how ever i still have a strange page layout atm, and as soon as i have done screen shot will mail it to you, seems that due to slow loading of pages the information lay out is not being processed properly. this is not my end as other internet use is ok
my apologies
m

Morguana, I had the same problem about a week ago, what you do is uninstall firefox, of course download the newest version, then reinstall again. I had a number of addons on my previous browser and apparently this can contribute to compatibility issues and glitches since firefox is usually updated very quickly, the addons can become outdated, so don't install any addons at least for the moment. Hope this helps.

[hostingtechs]

Posted by Majorion (here)
Morguana, I had the same problem about a week ago, what you do is uninstall firefox, of course download the newest version, then reinstall again. I had a number of addons on my previous browser and apparently this can contribute to compatibility issues and glitches since firefox is usually updated very quickly, the addons can become outdated, so don't install any addons at least for the moment. Hope this helps.

Thanks for the input, hopefully this solves the problem

And yes, Firefox does tend to update itself excessively

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Karl

[morguana]

hi karl, i have followed your instructions and checked on iphone, another browser and all was ok, have cleaned up my comp and retried by starting all again, and bingo, all is working like a whistle
thank you very much for your help, i have learned a valueable lesson today, and that is that in future i must not jump to conclusions when things dont always work well with my comp and forum. things are never what they the first may seem. i will of course post this on the forum as it is the only fair and decent thing to do and my appologies once more go to you.
thank you so very much for your patience and kind words
blessings
m

thank you Majorion i have done just that, and all is fine and funky

gosh i feel such a wally.......thanks folks for being super lovely
m

[Bomack]

I would like to post this here not to demean anyone, but to help foster a little understanding for our Fantastik Techs.

For those of us who know anything about I.T., and for those users who don't (or care to) know anything about it, this article serves as a reminder and/or gives insight to the complexities, difficulties, and hair pulling involved in running and maintaining a website such as this.

Great Work Guys!

Why website crashes are unavoidable -- at least for now

Obviously, no one likes it when websites go down. And, for website owners, even a few hours offline can mean a big hit to revenue from ads. But if you understand how the Internet works, there's one thing you realize quickly: Websites will continue to crash from time to time, and, without a big rethink of the system, there's no way to prevent that completely.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/06/...age/index.html

[hostingtechs]

Posted by Bomack (here)
I would like to post this here not to demean anyone, but to help foster a little understanding for our Fantastik Techs.

For those of us who know anything about I.T., and for those users who don't (or care to) know anything about it, this article serves as a reminder and/or gives insight to the complexities, difficulties, and hair pulling involved in running and maintaining a website such as this.

Great Work Guys!

Why website crashes are unavoidable -- at least for now



http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/06/...age/index.html

Thank you.

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Karl