site going down all the time?

rollitup said:
We had killed some of our ram and it took a bit to find the culprit anyways, new ram is in and it should be fixed hopefully.
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Thanks for letting us know whats going on with last night. But what about all the other times?

Typically when a server is going under maintenance, the admin, or mods will set up a notice page so the members don't turn away and go somewhere else, or at least send out a quick email notification that it will go down at this time to approx. this time etc.

My uncle has two web forums, and he said that on his forums that he has a shop, he has two back up server hosts, and a back up system to run the site on when he has the main server down. It goes slower, but people can still get on, and he doesn't lose the business, (its an all natural homeopathic medicines webforum)

I love being on RIU, especially that I can get some of the products I need here, but I can't stay if this is going to continue, I have put a lot of time and effort into keeping my journal and notes here, and am afraid of losing them...
 
I have put a lot of time and effort into keeping my journal and notes here, and am afraid of losing them...
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What i do, is i got a program on the internet called Diary One and i keep a second journal on there for my personal use. you should look into that if you dont trust RIU.
 
fdd2blk said:
never happy. :(
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I'm super happy when everything works, that's why I am here. I think keeping 2 copies, one on comp. and one on here, will work just fine. So if the site is down, I can still do an entry and just cut and paste later when its back up.

But still, the less the site is down, the better, don't you agree (of course maintenance is necessary).
 
theloadeddragon said:
Thanks for letting us know whats going on with last night. But what about all the other times?

Typically when a server is going under maintenance, the admin, or mods will set up a notice page so the members don't turn away and go somewhere else, or at least send out a quick email notification that it will go down at this time to approx. this time etc.

My uncle has two web forums, and he said that on his forums that he has a shop, he has two back up server hosts, and a back up system to run the site on when he has the main server down. It goes slower, but people can still get on, and he doesn't lose the business, (its an all natural homeopathic medicines webforum)

I love being on RIU, especially that I can get some of the products I need here, but I can't stay if this is going to continue, I have put a lot of time and effort into keeping my journal and notes here, and am afraid of losing them...
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The problem is you guys are straight up crashing the server, its not going down for maintance, when it goes down it is because the servers cant handle the load. Dont get me wrong these are really good servers that we have running this place but I need to find a better option.
 
It has been fine the past 24hrs so hopefully it stays that way. I can understand the server issues coz this site gets a lot of hits (one of my threads has over 5000 views in 2 weeks and another is not far behind it and that has surprised me a lot). I hope a better more capable server comes along for RIU.
 
I noticed a few days ago I couldn't log on for the whole day but it was the only time it happened. Everything seems to be running fine now.
 
rollitup said:
The problem is you guys are straight up crashing the server, its not going down for maintance, when it goes down it is because the servers cant handle the load. Dont get me wrong these are really good servers that we have running this place but I need to find a better option.
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Guess I had better quit trying to attach 40+ 5MP pictures at once for a thread update, eh?
 
It has been messing up and it is kinda wierd hope the feds really haven't been getting ahold of it.
 
Have you considered disabling search bots. That saves quite a bit of bandwidth. It seems to go off-line at night-early morning, when the bots are most active.
 
and I bet if you stopped it from autologging people off after only 10 minutes, and made it like a 1/2 hour to an hour, it would cut back a little bit??? I am just tired of making a long post, just to lose my post to having to log back in (every way I try going back, the message is gone).
 
theloadeddragon said:
and I bet if you stopped it from autologging people off after only 10 minutes, and made it like a 1/2 hour to an hour, it would cut back a little bit??? I am just tired of making a long post, just to lose my post to having to log back in (every way I try going back, the message is gone).
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When you log in there's the option to click a checkbox that says "Remember me" this sets a cookie so you don't get autologged off.

However, autologoffs take up pretty much zero system resources. t wouldn't help our servers, we just need more powerful hardware to handle the increase in site visitors.
 
KaliKitsune said:
When you log in there's the option to click a checkbox that says "Remember me" this sets a cookie so you don't get autologged off.

However, autologoffs take up pretty much zero system resources. t wouldn't help our servers, we just need more powerful hardware to handle the increase in site visitors.
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I figured as much.... the spyware etc. won't let RIU set any cookies, so Im stuck logging back in after 10 minutes of not refreshing the page.... I have been searching for a way to fix this, and I think I am almost there.... thanks....

If I wasn't so ridiculously broke, I would donate lots of money....
 
For general web browsing, I use MenuetOS or Linux. No anti-spyware required. :D

Windows gets used for IRC/Camfrog/Gaming/Music composition.
 
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