Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Wishlist => Topic started by: SectorNine50 on January 26, 2011, 05:01:32 PM
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Is there any chance... that we could get a forum server box that isn't overloaded?
I see at the bottom that it's "Free Forum Hosting," and I understand why one would use free hosting... but during peak-use BBS usage, I (and others) have a hell of a time posting anything. It'll just sit there and grind away... waiting for the server to confirm that it actually modified the database... It makes me sad... :(
It would also help get rid of those pesky double, triple, (and in a rare showing just recently) quadruple posts that we see from time to time.
(...I had to try to post this twice...)
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That is just who the style is by.
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Are you kidding me?
Seeing the quadruple post is akin to shooting a 40 point, non-typical buck.
I take pictures of them and hang them on my wall. Doesn't everybody?
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That is just who the style is by.
http://www.smfforfree.com/
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It's caused mostly by someone actually using the search feature, and the system having to hunt through millions of posts. It would be nice to have a dedicated search engine that wouldn't hog all the resources.
Oh, and people not pressing "post" 4 times in a row because it didn't instantly update. Kind of like people at work hitting "print" for their document, not seeing it immediately come out of the printer, hitting "print" again and again, then ending up with 4 copies. I guess those people also hit the elevator button a dozen times too, because it makes the elevator come faster. :noid
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Yes but SMF is downloadable and I don't think Skuzzy can do the backend stuff that he does outside of the forum admin CP itself unless he has access to the core files.
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I love how this was a double post XD
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See Rule #4
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It's caused mostly by someone actually using the search feature, and the system having to hunt through millions of posts. It would be nice to have a dedicated search engine that wouldn't hog all the resources.
Oh, and people not pressing "post" 4 times in a row because it didn't instantly update. Kind of like people at work hitting "print" for their document, not seeing it immediately come out of the printer, hitting "print" again and again, then ending up with 4 copies. I guess those people also hit the elevator button a dozen times too, because it makes the elevator come faster. :noid
In my case, you get duplicate posts because the system won't respond after you press the "post" button. As an experiment, I posted this thread and walked away for an hour, came back, it was still working away (or so it said). So, I quit out of the post, then refreshed the thread and my post showed up.
Searches alone shouldn't bog down the boards this much. Any time anyone refreshes any one of the boards, it queries the database again. Imagine a hundred people doing this over and over all at once.
Yes but SMF is downloadable and I don't think Skuzzy can do the backend stuff that he does outside of the forum admin CP itself unless he has access to the core files.
SMF is, yes, but from what I'm seeing on the site linked below, it's a hosting service that runs SMF. Irregardless of whether or not that is true is kind of moot anyway, the point is that the server doesn't seem to be able to handle the load of this community anymore.
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See Rule #4
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We host the bulletin board, on a dedicated server. The bulletin board is written by SMF. Yes, the problem with the stalls has to do with advanced searches.
We may move away from SMF, as that will be the only way to solve the problem.
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We host the bulletin board, on a dedicated server. The bulletin board is written by SMF. Yes, the problem with the stalls has to do with advanced searches.
We may move away from SMF, as that will be the only way to solve the problem.
All I needed!
Thanks Skuzzy. :salute
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We host the bulletin board, on a dedicated server. The bulletin board is written by SMF. Yes, the problem with the stalls has to do with advanced searches.
We may move away from SMF, as that will be the only way to solve the problem.
May I suggest phpBB3? :angel:
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May I suggest phpBB3? :angel:
+1
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or disable the search function? 99% of ppl don't use it anyway :D
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See Rule #4
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Part of the problem is 90% of the posts here are rubbish. Keep threads on topic and if you want to pick fights, find a local bar.
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:O
that's a good way to get punched in the mouth for real.