I've never even met anyone who owned two books.
I've never even met anyone who owned two books.
NOTE: The location of this post has been moved and the thread title (which was previously Wenger is Leaving) has been manipulated by a notorious pro-Wenger moderator. What was previously a message that contained no profanity and made a comment on a real life event has now been manipulated by a deliberately provocative title. An old and crude propaganda and censorship technique.
How's the ongoing investigation into the repeated 500 server errors going? Will it be concluded this century?
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Tbh, we probably should have stayed with Invision. Having our site gives us certain freedoms in terms of what we can post and VBulliten is overall a more powerful engine which gives us more scope for doing things with this place but as we're obviously never going to it probably wasn't really worth moving.
Seemed like a good idea at the time.
Hopefully the new server will be more stable.
How much do you pay for the server, if you don't mind me asking. And is it a shared or dedicated resource? I ask because it's barely more expensive than shared hosting to get a VPS these days. A $20 DigitalOcean droplet in the London data centre should be more than enough to run this forum stably and reliably. Euro based Scaleway does even cheaper prices.
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Jof pays for it so I don't know, but he does run other things on it other than GW.
I did suggest Azure a while back (having been somewhat brainwashed by Microsoft about it) but he didn't think that would be cost-effective.
The sites I host have been running on a dedicated server that was significantly bigger than required to ensure breathability for all sites on there (in essence, not paying for a dedicated to replicate a shared environment). Unfortunately, there have been a number of issues with that server, resulting in a lot of switched hardware and updates. The server unfortunately also had numerous service failures per day, resulting in a number of outages or unexpected errors... As such, it makes it quite difficult to understand which errors are site-specific (I.e. GW or VBulletin related) and which are being driven by server instability.
As part of slimming my own business and cost base down, I have now moved over to new flexible VM's that will grow/shrink as I need it to. This also means, in the event of another one of these stints of issues, I can easily spin up a replacement server within hours and avoid the usual DNS replication issues.
Re: the question of whether I'm reliable... I should think so, given that I dedicate a lot of my own time (above my normal hosting agreements) to keep this forum up and running. I have a lot of experience in managing and developing VB forums and hosting - and have been working tirelessly (even while on holiday - trying to sort a server out in Malta while at a wedding) to get this server sorted.