Server load issues/lag

Captcha fun :)
Have you tried the new server yet? It's screaming along.

I only got the phpinfo() stuff.

You entered the line into your hosts file.
And then you accessed the usual URL?

Hmm... it's what I'm doing and works for FF, IE and Chrome... which it should do as hosts is just a local DNS lookup.

Nah, I'm at a locked down machine at college. No hosts file for me. I just entered the IP into the address bar.

Ah, you need the hosts file. The IP address just leads to the main server default... which is currently phpinfo as I was testing the setup.

It uses virtual hosting, so needs the domain name to come through.

getting really slow page loads and a very weird "gate fail" error in my browser.

Yeah.. "she cannae handle the speed c'ain!!".. slow loads here..

im getting that ping chart beat thingy come up constantly, and pages refuse to load.

me too: ping dot fucking dot chartbeat dot fucking net.

diito

I'm fine.

It's not chartbeat... it's me.

I keep killing the server by switching on the load balancer to see how the new slave server is faring.

Unfortunately the slave server is a bitch and keeps going down. And that's what makes it look like you're waiting for things from chartbeat... the connection drops here.

I had the 502 thing loads just before lunch, then the site refused to load over 3G, now it seems to be fine.

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Finally worked it out.

mysqli leaves open TIME_WAIT connections. Swapping back to mysql mode works perfectly fine.

We now have 1 backend database server (Uranus), 1 front end web server (Neptune) and a satellite web server (Triton).

There will be some kinks to iron out I'm sure, so if anything is weird (picture uploading, things like that) let me know.

Cheers

David

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