View Full Version : fyi- still wrestling with server issues
Back from another brief outage. We're trying to get to the bottom of it so will ikeep you posted.
Thanks,
Sean
guitstik
01-20-2011, 03:44 PM
I was wondering if it was the snow, now I know.
Photo Engineer
01-20-2011, 03:49 PM
Sean;
It seems to load 1/4 page with the latest photo an empty tiny rectangle at the upper right. Then it stops. It seems to hang there until something happens, then advertisements begin to appear and the screen fills half way. It stops again, then the banner ad appears and it continues.
It looks as if it is waiting for the ads to appear, at least in some cases.
PE
The host has identified a few issues with Apache and cpanel so are working on it now. Ron, I think what you saw was a result of the server load spiking just before the crash. I think we might be ok once the host does their thing.
Black Dog
01-20-2011, 04:49 PM
Thanks!
Christopher Walrath
01-20-2011, 06:09 PM
About four minutes ago, I tried just typing www.apug.org and I got a database error. I chose articles from my history and no problem with access. Trying now in another tab. Nothing. Had to back door it to get in here.
Christopher Walrath
01-20-2011, 06:10 PM
About four minutes ago, I tried just typing www.apug.org and I got a database error. I chose articles from my history and no problem with access. Trying now in another tab. Nothing. Had to back door it to get in here.
Photo Engineer
01-20-2011, 06:15 PM
I just made a post and it told me that I had not waited 2 seconds since the last search. :D Now that was odd. Then it returned me to the advanced page and said the post was not successful. I checked, and the post was there.
So...... Strange things are happening!
PE
yeah we got major probs with Apache. We're planning to upgrade the webserver from Apache to "Lightspeed", in the meantime I am having to restart Apache to keep the site running ugh.
Photo Engineer
01-20-2011, 06:18 PM
One too many "patch" !
PE
I found 1,000's of errors in the weblogs related to 1ip, possibly a searchbot going haywire so I've blocked it at the firewall. Will keep monitoring..
mrred
01-20-2011, 06:45 PM
It looks fine from up here. Maybe network path issues?
dances_w_clouds
01-20-2011, 07:07 PM
Must be something in the air ;o My compu crashed and 20,000 pictures with it. I've got a few GB's of b/up so it might be helpful to me to clean up my files. But that has nothing compared to the worlds largest analogue photography site.....Looks fine also from the western side of Canada. :blink:
Well, for the geeks out there we are upgrading from Apache to Lightspeed (any moment now)
http://www.litespeedtech.com/litespeed-vs-apache.html
It's more expensive to run, but regarded as better technology and should give us a huge performance boost.
Change complete, we are now running Litespeed webserver. Should be more stable and faster (fingers crossed) :)
If it helps, an error page i just got:
http://home.tiscali.nl/qnu/APUG/APUG-Warning.jpg
Jerevan
01-21-2011, 04:13 AM
I don't envy you, Sean - this looks like bughunting hell, armed with only one flyswatter. Keep up the good work. :)
If it helps, an error page i just got:
http://home.tiscali.nl/qnu/APUG/APUG-Warning.jpg
That just me trying to get memcached running. Might get a few more brief errors like that over the next hour, the error should only last about 5 seconds though.
Jerevan
01-21-2011, 01:38 PM
The loading times are slow, pages doesn't show or are garbled. I mean, it's about 980 - 1000 users over an hours time - and it's not like we do PS actions in real time here, either... What's up, doc? :)
Ulrich Drolshagen
01-21-2011, 01:50 PM
The loading times are slow, pages doesn't show or are garbled. I mean, it's about 980 - 1000 users over an hours time - and it's not like we do PS actions in real time here, either... What's up, doc? :)
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