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Hello everyone...
MOCpages is back online as of this afternoon (01-Aug 2005). I feel terrible
about the horrendous downtime. I’m sorry I haven’t replied to anyone’s messages
asking what was going on -- I literally have been out of the country (and
without much computer access) for over 3 months.
What happened
MOCpages is hosted at a shared facility in Boston, MA. Although I pay a lot for
a “high volume” service, the facility automatically shuts down MOCpages if it
uses too much CPU or makes intensive use of the database.
I left the country in mid-April, and put someone in charge of MOCpages in my
absense to maintain everything. But only a few weeks later, our data center
shut down the entire MOCpages database because of high traffic. ... they
refused to turn it back on until I changed the way MOCpages interacted with the
database. It was something that only I could fix, and not something I could do
from an internet cafe in Africa, for example. :( I was aware that everything
was down, but powerless to restore it.
Now that I’m back, I’ve been able to “put a band-aid” in place (as of today)
that has gotten MOCpages back up and running.
The good news is that nothing was destroyed or lost; everyone’s pages are still
100% in-tact, passwords are the same, etc.
For now
For now, MOCpages will be a little slower than usual. I may have to shut down
the review/rating/favorites back-end again if our facility continues to complain
about the load it places on their server. I will be keeping my eyes out.
Fixes for the future
MOCpages has grown so popular in the past year (getting over a quarter million
hits every DAY) that I can no longer rely on shared web hosting as a solution.
Even now, the shared hosting plan costs me over $125 a month -- and we creep up
to our performance caps every minute of the day.
1) MOCpages needs a dedicated server. I have already begun pricing and
estimates at a new facility and for a new server, but it will require at least
$500 up front, which I’m not sure I can afford to spend out-of-pocket. I was
considering having a fund-raiser, much like Peeron’s successful $2000 drive late
last year. What is everyone’s thoughts on this?
2) The MOCpages database needs to be optimized for high-traffic. I’d like to
ask for help from the general community for this... are there any database folks
out there that wouldn’t mind helping me out a bit? Perhaps just some advice
would be in order.
Thanks,
Sean
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MOCpages Administrator
sean@mocpages.com
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In lugnet.announce.mocpages, Sean Kenney wrote:
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Hello everyone...
MOCpages is back online as of this afternoon (01-Aug 2005). I feel terrible
about the horrendous downtime. I’m sorry I haven’t replied to anyone’s
messages asking what was going on -- I literally have been out of the country
(and without much computer access) for over 3 months.
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1) MOCpages needs a dedicated server. I have already begun pricing and
estimates at a new facility and for a new server, but it will require at
least $500 up front, which I’m not sure I can afford to spend out-of-pocket.
I was considering having a fund-raiser, much like Peeron’s successful $2000
drive late last year. What is everyone’s thoughts on this?
2) The MOCpages database needs to be optimized for high-traffic. I’d like to
ask for help from the general community for this... are there any database
folks out there that wouldn’t mind helping me out a bit? Perhaps just some
advice would be in order.
Thanks,
Sean
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MOCpages Administrator
sean@mocpages.com
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I can’t help with programing, but I think a fund raiser is a good idea. I’ll
keep an eye out for an anouncement with paypal address.
Mat
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On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 08:40:55PM +0000, Mathew Clayson wrote:
> > 1) MOCpages needs a dedicated server. I have already begun pricing
> > and estimates at a new facility and for a new server, but it will
> > require at least $500 up front, which I'm not sure I can afford
> > to spend out-of-pocket. I was considering having a fund-raiser,
> > much like Peeron's successful $2000 drive late last year. What is
> > everyone's thoughts on this?
Sean - what are your requirements for the server? I had to get a new
server to host PICSL, and found a good deal on that. Contact me
offline, I might be able to help.
> > 2) The MOCpages database needs to be optimized for high-traffic. I'd
> > like to ask for help from the general community for this... are
> > there any database folks out there that wouldn't mind helping me
> > out a bit? Perhaps just some advice would be in order.
What database are you using? We had to go through a number of
optimizations last year, when we were trying to squeese the last bits of
CPU from the database... Might have some ideas, if you're using MySQL.
--
Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com
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In lugnet.announce.mocpages, Sean Kenney wrote:
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Hello everyone...
MOCpages is back online as of this afternoon (01-Aug 2005). I feel terrible
about the horrendous downtime. I’m sorry I haven’t replied to anyone’s
messages asking what was going on -- I literally have been out of the country
(and without much computer access) for over 3 months.
What happened
MOCpages is hosted at a shared facility in Boston, MA. Although I pay a lot
for a “high volume” service, the facility automatically shuts down MOCpages
if it uses too much CPU or makes intensive use of the database.
I left the country in mid-April, and put someone in charge of MOCpages in my
absense to maintain everything. But only a few weeks later, our data center
shut down the entire MOCpages database because of high traffic. ... they
refused to turn it back on until I changed the way MOCpages interacted with
the database. It was something that only I could fix, and not something I
could do from an internet cafe in Africa, for example. :( I was aware that
everything was down, but powerless to restore it.
Now that I’m back, I’ve been able to “put a band-aid” in place (as of today)
that has gotten MOCpages back up and running.
The good news is that nothing was destroyed or lost; everyone’s pages are
still 100% in-tact, passwords are the same, etc.
For now
For now, MOCpages will be a little slower than usual. I may have to shut
down the review/rating/favorites back-end again if our facility continues to
complain about the load it places on their server. I will be keeping my eyes
out.
Fixes for the future
MOCpages has grown so popular in the past year (getting over a quarter
million hits every DAY) that I can no longer rely on shared web hosting as a
solution. Even now, the shared hosting plan costs me over $125 a month -- and
we creep up to our performance caps every minute of the day.
1) MOCpages needs a dedicated server. I have already begun pricing and
estimates at a new facility and for a new server, but it will require at
least $500 up front, which I’m not sure I can afford to spend out-of-pocket.
I was considering having a fund-raiser, much like Peeron’s successful $2000
drive late last year. What is everyone’s thoughts on this?
2) The MOCpages database needs to be optimized for high-traffic. I’d like to
ask for help from the general community for this... are there any database
folks out there that wouldn’t mind helping me out a bit? Perhaps just some
advice would be in order.
Thanks,
Sean
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MOCpages Administrator
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Sean is northstar a option? Many AFOL sites are hosted there(bricklink and many
many more)..As for a fundraiser it sounds good to me..your site has been a fav.
of mine for a long while.On the lighter side I was at my bricklink about me”
section just 2 days ago and erased my(dead) link to my page at your site..had I
known that’s all I had to do to get it back running I would have done that long
ago..lol.Good luck no mattter what you do . Chris MichLTC/MichLUG
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Hey Sean,
Welcome back and also congratulations on your recent marriage. It’s great that
MOCpages will be back up and running. As Mat said, I can’t help with
programming but I’m sure that many AFOLs like myself would be happy to chip in
some money if needed.
One thing, you might want to talk to Kevin about the future of Brickshelf.
There’s a note on Brickshelf encouraging people to migrate their files to
Maj.com, and in this post Kevin says
that Brickshelf will stay up “for the forseeable future, though performance may
be limited and new uploads may be disabled at some point.” Given the close tie
between the two sites (I’m sure 99% of the images on MOCpages are hosted on
Brickshelf), perhaps if you and Kevin are both contemplating new servers etc,
there might be a shared solution.
Bruce
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In lugnet.announce.mocpages, Sean Kenney wrote:
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Hello everyone...
MOCpages is back online as of this afternoon (01-Aug 2005). I feel terrible
about the horrendous downtime. I’m sorry I haven’t replied to anyone’s
messages asking what was going on -- I literally have been out of the country
(and without much computer access) for over 3 months.
What happened
MOCpages is hosted at a shared facility in Boston, MA. Although I pay a lot
for a “high volume” service, the facility automatically shuts down MOCpages
if it uses too much CPU or makes intensive use of the database.
I left the country in mid-April, and put someone in charge of MOCpages in my
absense to maintain everything. But only a few weeks later, our data center
shut down the entire MOCpages database because of high traffic. ... they
refused to turn it back on until I changed the way MOCpages interacted with
the database. It was something that only I could fix, and not something I
could do from an internet cafe in Africa, for example. :( I was aware that
everything was down, but powerless to restore it.
Now that I’m back, I’ve been able to “put a band-aid” in place (as of today)
that has gotten MOCpages back up and running.
The good news is that nothing was destroyed or lost; everyone’s pages are
still 100% in-tact, passwords are the same, etc.
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Thanks for the update, and for getting things squared away again.
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For now
For now, MOCpages will be a little slower than usual. I may have to shut
down the review/rating/favorites back-end again if our facility continues to
complain about the load it places on their server. I will be keeping my eyes
out.
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I find the review / rating feature to be the best thing about mocpages, please
make it a last ditch cut. Is it possible to cut out accounts that have not been
accessed recently? Would that help the issue?
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Fixes for the future
MOCpages has grown so popular in the past year (getting over a quarter
million hits every DAY) that I can no longer rely on shared web hosting as a
solution. Even now, the shared hosting plan costs me over $125 a month -- and
we creep up to our performance caps every minute of the day.
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Ouch! Well...the thing about 1/4 million hits a day is sexy.
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1) MOCpages needs a dedicated server. I have already begun pricing and
estimates at a new facility and for a new server, but it will require at
least $500 up front, which I’m not sure I can afford to spend out-of-pocket.
I was considering having a fund-raiser, much like Peeron’s successful $2000
drive late last year. What is everyone’s thoughts on this?
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I would contribute to a fund-raiser and I know of a few other like minded
no-goodnicks of questionable heritage who would also contribute.
no, Thank you, for providing a safe harbor for smack and cool mocs.
-Keith
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Hello!
Nice to hear that Mocpages made it back online. Thanks for all your efforts!
While I can’t help you with any technical problems and just might donate
something when it comes to fundraising I have a little request: Maybe it wasn’t
too bad if only registered users would be allowed to rate MOCs and write
reviews. Sometimes I’d like to answer on them but can’t because I don’t know how
to contact them. (+ sometimes I wonder how it comes some MOCs are rated so low.
The ability of anonymous rating may be tempting...)
Bye
Jojo
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Great to see that it is back on-line. When I bought a digital camera in May I
looked forward to putting some of my MOCs on MOCpages, since it is very easy to
add a little info on the MOC. One of the nice things is also the quick feedback
from other users. Sadly it was off-line.
The feed-back is also one of MOCpages more annoying points. It is hard to figure
out what makes a certain MOC appreciated or not. Of course opinions differ, but
often rather awful MOCs are rated very highly while for some unfathomable reason
other MOCs (often rather nice ones in my opinion, and I’m not just talking about
my Ford F150 FX4 ;-) ) are rated rather badly. Ideas anyone?
Regards,
Ralph
BTW my page on MOCpages:
http://www.mocpages.com/home.php/2168
In lugnet.announce.mocpages, Sean Kenney wrote:
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Hello everyone...
MOCpages is back online as of this afternoon (01-Aug 2005). I feel terrible
about the horrendous downtime. I’m sorry I haven’t replied to anyone’s
messages asking what was going on -- I literally have been out of the country
(and without much computer access) for over 3 months.
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Thanks,
Sean
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MOCpages Administrator
sean@mocpages.com
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In lugnet.announce.mocpages, Sean Kenney wrote:
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Hello everyone...
MOCpages is back online as of this afternoon (01-Aug 2005). I feel terrible
about the horrendous downtime. I’m sorry I haven’t replied to anyone’s
messages asking what was going on -- I literally have been out of the country
(and without much computer access) for over 3 months.
What happened
MOCpages is hosted at a shared facility in Boston, MA. Although I pay a lot
for a “high volume” service, the facility automatically shuts down MOCpages
if it uses too much CPU or makes intensive use of the database.
I left the country in mid-April, and put someone in charge of MOCpages in my
absense to maintain everything. But only a few weeks later, our data center
shut down the entire MOCpages database because of high traffic. ... they
refused to turn it back on until I changed the way MOCpages interacted with
the database. It was something that only I could fix, and not something I
could do from an internet cafe in Africa, for example. :( I was aware that
everything was down, but powerless to restore it.
Now that I’m back, I’ve been able to “put a band-aid” in place (as of today)
that has gotten MOCpages back up and running.
The good news is that nothing was destroyed or lost; everyone’s pages are
still 100% in-tact, passwords are the same, etc.
For now
For now, MOCpages will be a little slower than usual. I may have to shut
down the review/rating/favorites back-end again if our facility continues to
complain about the load it places on their server. I will be keeping my eyes
out.
Fixes for the future
MOCpages has grown so popular in the past year (getting over a quarter
million hits every DAY) that I can no longer rely on shared web hosting as a
solution. Even now, the shared hosting plan costs me over $125 a month -- and
we creep up to our performance caps every minute of the day.
1) MOCpages needs a dedicated server. I have already begun pricing and
estimates at a new facility and for a new server, but it will require at
least $500 up front, which I’m not sure I can afford to spend out-of-pocket.
I was considering having a fund-raiser, much like Peeron’s successful $2000
drive late last year. What is everyone’s thoughts on this?
2) The MOCpages database needs to be optimized for high-traffic. I’d like to
ask for help from the general community for this... are there any database
folks out there that wouldn’t mind helping me out a bit? Perhaps just some
advice would be in order.
Thanks,
Sean
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MOCpages Administrator
sean@mocpages.com
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Mr. Kenney,
Welcome back! MOCpages is without a doubt the best place on the net for
reviewing MOCs and posting and reading commentary on the same. The format and
flexibility of the site are unlike anything else I have encountered. I urge
you to pass operating costs to the users (the rest of us) as soon as possible.
It is commendable that you have paid the bill for all of us for so long, but all
free lunches must come to an end. I value access and use of MOCpages highly
enough that I would gladly pay a monthly, quarterly, or annual subscription fee.
1/4 million hits per day suggests the existence of a sufficient market to
support the cost of operation. Whatever solution you choose, you may rely on
my continued support (as long as I don’t have to do anything remotely
complicated on my computer...) Attack! Michael Rutherford
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