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06-16-09, 07:21 PM
#31
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Thanks everyone for your patience. I'm putting up the annoucement below shortly but thought I'd post it here as well.
Hi Everyone,
The site is back up and running, and hopefully at full speed, we are currently finalizing the search engine, but that should be back later today.
Over the past week there has been a number of items which caused significant performance and access issues on the site (which you may have noticed).
What transpired was a proverbial “perfect storm” of issues.
1st – The sites database size reached a level of “critical mass” whereby its resource dependency on its server increased exponentially.
2nd – The traffic accessing this database has also increased, compounding the problem
3rd – The forum size outgrew the sites original settings and configurations.
4th – The sporadic nature of the timeouts and failures to load were not occurring on a frequent enough basis for our monitors to catch based on the frequency of queries received.
The issues managed to get progressively worse, and throughout late last week, and over the weekend we were attempting to alter configurations to improve the performance – such changes were not successful.
So – first we thank you for notifying us of the performance and access concerns you were having, we really appreciate it.
When we became aware of the issues accessing the site we discovered the above problems, we first had to build a new server for the site to be hosted on, and configure it in such a manner that would be capable of handling much greater traffic, and a larger database (for future growth!).
Upon building the new server and moving the site to the new server, the database became corrupted on the move (this occurred late yesterday), we began the tedious task of rebuilding the database, and re-configuring the new server.
The site should now be accessible, and fully functional, and we did not lose any posts in the process. We will be tweaking a few of the server settings as we monitor, and we appreciate your feedback in this.
Thank you for your patience thoughtout this, but we feel that Club Lexus is much better positioned for more users and posts in the future now!
The site is back up and running, and hopefully at full speed, we are currently finalizing the search engine, but that should be back later today.
Over the past week there has been a number of items which caused significant performance and access issues on the site (which you may have noticed).
What transpired was a proverbial “perfect storm” of issues.
1st – The sites database size reached a level of “critical mass” whereby its resource dependency on its server increased exponentially.
2nd – The traffic accessing this database has also increased, compounding the problem
3rd – The forum size outgrew the sites original settings and configurations.
4th – The sporadic nature of the timeouts and failures to load were not occurring on a frequent enough basis for our monitors to catch based on the frequency of queries received.
The issues managed to get progressively worse, and throughout late last week, and over the weekend we were attempting to alter configurations to improve the performance – such changes were not successful.
So – first we thank you for notifying us of the performance and access concerns you were having, we really appreciate it.
When we became aware of the issues accessing the site we discovered the above problems, we first had to build a new server for the site to be hosted on, and configure it in such a manner that would be capable of handling much greater traffic, and a larger database (for future growth!).
Upon building the new server and moving the site to the new server, the database became corrupted on the move (this occurred late yesterday), we began the tedious task of rebuilding the database, and re-configuring the new server.
The site should now be accessible, and fully functional, and we did not lose any posts in the process. We will be tweaking a few of the server settings as we monitor, and we appreciate your feedback in this.
Thank you for your patience thoughtout this, but we feel that Club Lexus is much better positioned for more users and posts in the future now!
06-16-09, 09:06 PM
#33
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1st – The sites database size reached a level of “critical mass” whereby its resource dependency on its server increased exponentially.
2nd – The traffic accessing this database has also increased, compounding the problem
3rd – The forum size outgrew the sites original settings and configurations.
2nd – The traffic accessing this database has also increased, compounding the problem
3rd – The forum size outgrew the sites original settings and configurations.
Last edited by mmarshall; 06-16-09 at 09:20 PM.
06-16-09, 09:38 PM
#34
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No, storing text isn't really much of an issue in terms of the space it takes up on disk storage MM. Now if everybody else typed as much as you there might be an issue 
but think we're safe from that for now!
but think we're safe from that for now!
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