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Forum issues

goon

It's still a little sluggish, but better I think? We'll find out tonight I guess.

goon

Take it back, it's suddenly very quick, at least the best it's been for a while.

JazzG

Probably best to do it tomorrow incase things go tits up before the match 😆

Burnwinter

Pepe LeFrits 🤔 If PHP is firing up the dev forum and it's looking at the same database, it may have been retaining a second pool of open MySQL connections based on the configured limit for the database.

Seem to recall when this first happened I tried increasing the MySQL connection limit due to the content of the logs and some stuff on the community forum, but it wasn't fixing the issue ... but maybe two active Flarum instances were doubling up on that limit, no matter what it was 🙃

Pepe LeFrits

The Dev forum had its own DB.

Anyway, we'll see how it goes later. It looks to me like the SEO extension may be degrading performance too so I've disabled that.

I also note that Namecheap has 50% CPU as the default allocation and I can't work out what triggers (or doesn't trigger) increasing the capacity to 200%. Yesterday it stayed at 50% all day and was continually maxed out, whereas now it's at 200% when we're nowhere near the 50% capacity

Big Willie

Pepe LeFrits Maybe vBulletin cloud might work, seems to start at $15 a month.

Hey @Pepe LeFrits dunno all the costs associated but this one website I was reading on the various forum softwares seemed to suggest that vBulletin was on the pricier side of things. Seemed to also suggest that Xenforo, which AM moved to back in the day, is in the mid price range. The free ones like myBB and phpBB don't have SEO and are generally less customizeable however are free.

Take a look at the website if you have the time. There are two tables at the end comparing all the different forum types.

https://www.ionos.co.uk/digitalguide/hosting/cms/the-best-forum-software/

In any case, I'd be more than happy to contribute to the costs to run it each year.

Big Willie

Wait, just read that first post, and hadn't gone through the entire thread when searching for best softwares for each forum. Only now reading the comments from the bottom up that the forum is faster and that the comments reflect that. Looks like you managed to upgrade it after all.

Don Pacifico

Thanks Mike!

Coombs

Forum feels great! Hope it holds up during the match.

Big Willie

Feels like I've been reborn.

Burnwinter

Yeah, it's absolutely blitzing along compared to anything recent.

Big Willie

Great to have reverted back to the thread view on the landing page. That old style display showing each subforun was one extra page I had to load before getting into a thread.

Qwiss

The fact it got through last nights game is a great sign that the fixes worked. Well done Pepe.

JazzG

Might be worth doing the main forum upgrade now but whatever was done has made a massive difference.

mohan

Yes, definitely loading a bit faster than earlier in the week. Thank you.

JazzG

Oops! Something went wrong. Please reload the page and try again.

Getting that error a few times today when I try to refresh

QuincyAbeyie

It's slow for me, even if I've tried on different devices and networks. I just tried to click on the houseboat thread and counted in my head, took about 25-30 seconds to load.

Edit: This post had to load more than 60 seconds.

Big Willie

Think something may be happening on the backend possibly. Maybe its a cache issue, the last time we cleared the cache (at least I think Pep did that) it was super fast but a few days later slowed a bit.

Mind you it's still much, much better than it was last week. I'll take 30 seconds of reloading any day over trying and constantly failing to open a page for a few hours.

Pepe LeFrits

Yeah, I'm getting errors and long response times too. It's been that way since I 'fixed' it, but it's much worse today. The performance stats for the server don't show anything though, like they did before - CPU usage, memory, etc is fine.

I'll upgrade the forum to the latest version when I get a chance, might be a few days though

Pepe LeFrits

It feels like a lot of requests are being dropped for whatever reason.

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