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Re: MOCpages is back online
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Mon, 1 Aug 2005 20:49:56 GMT
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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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