Author Topic: Fisheaters has been suspended by their webhost (Read 3778 times)

Matthew · « **on:** December 13, 2010, 11:10:40 AM »

Got an error message just now -- not sure how long the site will be down.

Matthew

ServusSpiritusSancti · « **Reply #1 on:** December 13, 2010, 02:21:13 PM »

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.

MaterLaeta · « **Reply #2 on:** December 13, 2010, 06:44:47 PM »

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!

Belloc · « **Reply #3 on:** December 14, 2010, 11:26:01 AM »

the articles are good, not crazy of course about the forum..that part can go.....

stevusmagnus · « **Reply #4 on:** December 14, 2010, 01:59:55 PM »

Matthew,

What were you doing on FE? :confused1:

Are you posting there again?

Matthew · « **Reply #5 on:** December 14, 2010, 02:43:52 PM »

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.

MaterLaeta · « **Reply #6 on:** December 14, 2010, 03:40:17 PM »

Their twitter page says the forum is back up, but I go to the forum & it says suspended?!

stevusmagnus · « **Reply #7 on:** December 14, 2010, 03:49:37 PM »

Quote from: Matthew

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.

QuisUtDeus · « **Reply #8 on:** December 14, 2010, 04:22:47 PM »

Quote from: Matthew

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:

Matthew · « **Reply #9 on:** December 14, 2010, 04:42:05 PM »

So what's going on at Fisheaters? New feature that's eating up too much CPU or something?

clare · « **Reply #10 on:** December 14, 2010, 04:50:52 PM »

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"

QuisUtDeus · « **Reply #11 on:** December 14, 2010, 05:04:30 PM »

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!

Matthew · « **Reply #12 on:** December 14, 2010, 07:56:13 PM »

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/

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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.

Matthew · « **Reply #13 on:** December 14, 2010, 08:06:11 PM »

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.

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http://www.tanbooks.com/beta/ is gzipped

Original Size: 39.32 KB
Gzipped Size: 8.2 KB
Data Savings: 79.15%

QuisUtDeus · « **Reply #14 on:** December 14, 2010, 11:09:07 PM »

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!