Catholic Info
Traditional Catholic Faith => General Discussion => Topic started by: Matthew on December 13, 2010, 11:10:40 AM
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Got an error message just now -- not sure how long the site will be down.
Matthew
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Strange. Of course, FE has been going way downhill the past year or so. Makes you wonder how much longer that forum will hold on.
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I hope it will stick around. I still find it useful. The best thing about it is the variety of people you find there. Somewhere, you will find someone who is at a similar place on their journey, or someone who will understand where you are and offer advice without judging!
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the articles are good, not crazy of course about the forum..that part can go.....
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Matthew,
What were you doing on FE? :confused1:
Are you posting there again?
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I was trying to click on a link that appeared in my server logs -- a page that sent several people to CathInfo. I often check these out, to see how CathInfo is being mentioned out there.
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Their twitter page says the forum is back up, but I go to the forum & it says suspended?!
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I was trying to click on a link that appeared in my server logs -- a page that sent several people to CathInfo. I often check these out, to see how CathInfo is being mentioned out there.
Neat! Once they are back up, let us know the link.
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I was trying to click on a link that appeared in my server logs -- a page that sent several people to CathInfo. I often check these out, to see how CathInfo is being mentioned out there.
Lots of people who run forums do that. :wink:
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So what's going on at Fisheaters? New feature that's eating up too much CPU or something?
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It was back up earlier today. I think Quis posted something about FE getting too big for their hosts. That CPU thing Matthew refers to was mentioned, but I didn't understand it!
At the moment it's in Maintenance Mode. "Fixing site issues (again) - ETA: this evening"
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What Clare said. Yes, it's the CPU load.
If it weren't a shared host it would just run slower under heavy load which I would be fine with, but since it affects other websites, that's not allowed.
So, I've been hacking stuff out to try and reduce the CPU load - like removing the RSS feed from the website front page, turning off page compression, etc.
Anyhow, a blessed Advent to all!
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I heard that turning page compression off is a net LOSS because each session has to work longer to provide a larger page to download -- which costs (you guessed it) CPU time.
http://www.whatsmyip.org/http_compression/
A common misconception is that compressing web pages on the fly will slow down a web server. This is not the case. It does take a little CPU to do the compression, but the result is that your web server is handling significantly less data, which reduces the total CPU load on the server.
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Even avatars, smilies, etc. take up a bit of bandwidth and hence CPU usage.
Try reducing the number of posts per page -- when the program has to crunch 50 posts into a webpage when a person might only read 2 of them -- not exactly efficient.
I would turn page compression back on.
If you're using any javascript libraries, etc. you could try pre-compressing and serving it up GZipped.
Same for CSS files -- make sure they're external, then GZIP them and serve them up that way.
Gzipping reduces HTML/Javascript/CSS to about 1/4 of original size.
http://www.tanbooks.com/beta/ is gzipped
Original Size: 39.32 KB
Gzipped Size: 8.2 KB
Data Savings: 79.15%
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OK, that makes sense. I'll turn it back on. That's also a good idea about posts per page. I'll trim them down.
Thanks for the advice!
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What Clare said. Yes, it's the CPU load.
If it weren't a shared host it would just run slower under heavy load which I would be fine with, but since it affects other websites, that's not allowed.
So, I've been hacking stuff out to try and reduce the CPU load - like removing the RSS feed from the website front page, turning off page compression, etc.
Anyhow, a blessed Advent to all!
could createa separate site for your forum and info? With links to each?
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Yes, I used to do it with my blog, back when I had time to write a blog.
I was trying to click on a link that appeared in my server logs -- a page that sent several people to CathInfo. I often check these out, to see how CathInfo is being mentioned out there.
Lots of people who run forums do that. :wink:
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You should go back to your old display format. It was much better and easier on the eyes than the new one.
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Just got this from the FE forum page:
Fixing site issues (again) - ETA: Unknown; depends on hosting provider
Looks like FE is down indefinitely.
I guess I will be hanging around here more for my daily fix of traditional catholicism.
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Glad to have you.