Forum Outage
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Forum Outage
Hi all.
Just a quick note to say that the forum outage today was down to my host closing access to the forum. To a large degree I can't blame them as we have grown beyond my wildness dreams.
I need to now move KF to a dedicated server ASAP...!!!!
KORG USA have offered to help months ago and we did even run tests. So I will contact them and let them know that times up and we need to move now.
In the mean time to keep my HOST happy I've disabled the Search engine, and only logged in registered users can read the forum. This will keep CPU cycles down.
Stay tuned for more updates and the inevitable planned outage when the forum moves to KORG USA's servers.
Regards
Sharp.
Just a quick note to say that the forum outage today was down to my host closing access to the forum. To a large degree I can't blame them as we have grown beyond my wildness dreams.
I need to now move KF to a dedicated server ASAP...!!!!
KORG USA have offered to help months ago and we did even run tests. So I will contact them and let them know that times up and we need to move now.
In the mean time to keep my HOST happy I've disabled the Search engine, and only logged in registered users can read the forum. This will keep CPU cycles down.
Stay tuned for more updates and the inevitable planned outage when the forum moves to KORG USA's servers.
Regards
Sharp.
Last edited by Sharp on Wed Oct 26, 2011 11:19 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Forum Outage
Good to hear that Korg is helping you. I think this is far the best Korg forum in the world (and synth Forum in general).Sharp wrote:Hi all.
Just a quick note to say that the forum outage today was down to my host closing access to the forum. To a large degree I can't blame them as we have grown beyond my wildness dreams.
I need to now move KF to a dedicated server ASAP...!!!!
KORG USA have offered to help months ago and we did even run tests. So I will contact them and let them know that times up and we need to move now.
In the mean time to keep my HOST happy I've disabled the Search engine, and only logged in registered users can read the forum. This will keep CPU cycles down.
Stay tuned for more updates and the inevitable planned outage when the forum moves to KORG USA's servers.
Regards
Sharp.
Thanks for fixing the problem and notification so quickly!

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Will this by any shot in the dark speed up the process on getting a android/iOs app? or make it tapatalkk enabled?
that would be even more awesome!
Good to hear korg is helping though. They owe it to you!
that would be even more awesome!
Good to hear korg is helping though. They owe it to you!
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tapatalk or another forum app compatibility would be awesome.robbinhood wrote:Will this by any shot in the dark speed up the process on getting a android/iOs app? or make it tapatalkk enabled?
that would be even more awesome!
Good to hear korg is helping though. They owe it to you!
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Just been talking with my HOST again and they are happy with the changes I've made to lock out non-registered members as it's reduced our CPU load. We are still eating up too much RAM, but they are happy to let me run with things until I can arrange for KORG USA to take the load.
Just sent the information to KORG USA now, so.... we will see now what happens. If the offer is still open from KORG, then it should happen quick. If not then … ho feck, I need to find the cash to pay for a dedicated sever.
Regards
Sharp
Just sent the information to KORG USA now, so.... we will see now what happens. If the offer is still open from KORG, then it should happen quick. If not then … ho feck, I need to find the cash to pay for a dedicated sever.
Regards
Sharp
Hello,
I know from experience that phpBB is a power/resources hungry beast. When my old RC community forum went over 800 visits a day my server started crashing more often than not.
Even when I upgraded to the newer 3 version the load didn't went down as expected.
I sincerely recommend switching to another board solution. The best one I know and use is http://www.invisionpower.com/products/board/
Just my 2c
I know from experience that phpBB is a power/resources hungry beast. When my old RC community forum went over 800 visits a day my server started crashing more often than not.
Even when I upgraded to the newer 3 version the load didn't went down as expected.
I sincerely recommend switching to another board solution. The best one I know and use is http://www.invisionpower.com/products/board/
Just my 2c
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Just out of curiosity. When you have 1000 visits a day, and let's say you were only allowed to have up to 600, is there anyway for the board to determine all that extra 400 visits were actually genuine users and not spam bots? because if they count every single visit including spam bots attacking the forum, then this could get out of control. I was wondering if limiting the forum only to registered users could provide a more genuine visit counts?
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spambots that post spam are registered users, or they wouldn't be able to postAssyrianpianist wrote:Just out of curiosity. When you have 1000 visits a day, and let's say you were only allowed to have up to 600, is there anyway for the board to determine all that extra 400 visits were actually genuine users and not spam bots? because if they count every single visit including spam bots attacking the forum, then this could get out of control. I was wondering if limiting the forum only to registered users could provide a more genuine visit counts?
Sharp has already restricted the site to registered users only
if there was a way to identify spambots and prevent them from requesting pages or submitting posts, it would've been done already, not just because it creates load on the server
if the problem is the load on the server, it doesn't matter if the page requests come from spambots or real users, they still create load
We are by many thousands well beyond that figure. As for spambots, there are certain measures in place that prevent them from using bandwidth. There are IP ranges completely blocked out from countries like Nigeria and China for example.Just out of curiosity. When you have 1000 visits a day, and let's say you were only allowed to have up to 600, is there anyway for the board to determine all that extra 400 visits were actually genuine users and not spam bots?
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