Server move

Now I've done the first part of the server move, the domain name can be queued up... the next part of the server move is to migrate from www.londonfgss.com to www.lfgss.com

The domain name is changing pretty much solely to make it piss easy to type on a mobile.

I haven't yet decided whether it should be lfgss.com or www.lfgss.com , both will work but one will be the primary thing and I'm currently in favour of dropping the www. bit and making lfgss.com be the whole URL (shortness is good for things like twitter, emails, etc).

Not sure how that was related to changing the domain name...

Fair question though.

https://www.londonfgss.com/memberpics264-albums635-picture6103.jpg

subtle, took me a while to see what you did there

EDIT: Ignore this post

i can't upload photos from my pc as attached files in the paperclip-icon'd function.. is this cos of the stuff going on and is anyone else having it happen?

Might be a problem, I'll check it in a moment.

yeah sorry, wasn't very clear - i think it comes up with "connection interrupted" then definitely comes up with "the network link was interrupted while negotiating a connection. Please try again." hope this is of some help.

Got it... the load balancer was blocking attachments of more than 1MB.

1 Attachment

i keep getting logged out messages when i appear to be logged in.

You do not have permission to perform this action. Please refresh the page and login before trying again.

honestly, all this "stuff" that happens to get the site up and running is so massively "out there" as far as my understanding of it all.

It's fucking unbelievable, i for one salute you for knowing how it all works and implementing it.

it amazes me because i am absolutely clueless how anything works beyond my Windows 7 "Control Panel"

Now I've done the first part of the server move, the domain name can be queued up... the next part of the server move is to migrate from www.londonfgss.com to www.lfgss.com

The domain name is changing pretty much solely to make it piss easy to type on a mobile.

I haven't yet decided whether it should be lfgss.com or www.lfgss.com , both will work but one will be the primary thing and I'm currently in favour of dropping the www. bit and making lfgss.com be the whole URL (shortness is good for things like twitter, emails, etc).

you know, I use lfgss on my mobile, but the link never bother me since it only take a quick google 'lfgss' to get to the forum.

just thought I'd mention that.

you know, I use lfgss on my mobile, but the link never bother me since it only take a quick google 'lfgss' to get to the forum.

just thought I'd mention that.

There's a huge difference between the mobile version of the site and the full one, which lots of phones wouldn't cope with or it just wouldn't be usable.

Also "google.com" followed by "lfgss" is more to type than "m.lfgss.com" - not all phones remember addresses or do bookmarks. (Both "google" and "lfgss" aren't ideal names for phones though, having consecutive letters on the same key. I doubt Google are going to change their name because of that any time soon though)

I guess my point is what's handy for someone isn't always handy for everyone else.

(Both "google" and "lfgss" aren't ideal names for phones though, having consecutive letters on the same key. I doubt Google are going to change their name because of that any time soon though)

Set yourself up as a consultant and charge them millions to find that out. :)

If anyone was wondering what that was... basically DNS lookups were failing on the database server, and all connections to the database server were being queued with most timing out. The result was everything went very slow.

Answer was over here:
http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?30,27073,27090#msg-27090

Adding skip-name-resolve to my.cnf avoids the needless DNS lookup and everything is flying again.

It was horrible.

:(

Glad that's done. Having to while away a few long crimbo eve hours at my desk without this place would have sent me loco.

I don't have much to do for paul so just surfing Lfgss

Had to wake David to fix it

cheers

clefty woke me first... she's always on the ball.

What sucks is that even with this grand new server farm, the single point of failure is the master database server... and that was the one thing that failed.

I'm looking forward to distributed NoSql databases to solve this shit.

"server farm"

:)

Velocio sitting on the porch, whittling wood, smoking a corn cob pipe.

Hmm, all sounds a bit organic/self-evolving to me. I see the start of something dark here, with us being 'farmed' at the end of it.

Merry Christmas everybody, including the near-sentient computer systems.

Nah, its very Pauly Shore.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you, Dave ... you'll only get clefty and dancing james ringing you up in the middle of the night ... night ... night ..."