If you dont get this POS server fixed
 

Im leaving forever. :grr:



*que Curly Bill

Well, bye.

Well........Bye.
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Bye.

I wonder if anyone on this board could post a leaving forever thread and actually have people publicly try to talk them out of it :hmmm:

If it gets you out of here we ought to replace it with an Atari gaming system.

Rain Man and Mr. FAX easily. And Mr. Flopnuts.

I have to admit I lol'ed

the popular 2600 or the lame (and what i had) 5200 model?

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i don't know...

why don't you give it a try and we'll find out?

Notice how your name is NOT BOLDED...

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That means that you haven't donated any money or contributed to the servers costs at all over these last 10 years.

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For example, Bane could bitch if he wanted to... but luckily, he is not a bitch like you. He actually helped the situation out.

ROFL Cha-Ching!

I'd just like to point out if we were running z/OS we'd never have down time.:p

I'd just like to point out that I have no ****ing clue what you're talking about.

As soon as you stop having gay sex with girls the server will be fixed. It's all up to you. And no matter how badly you want it to be the case, girls are girls. They aren't guys. So just make the switch officially and stop kidding yourself that you're straight. lol

What I contribute is far more valuable than money.

Im a guy. Any sex with girls for me is not gay.

See ya.

Wouldn't wanna be ya...

Wow....post of the year by Teedubya

Would money actually solve the issues? If so, there should be a fund raiser.

Yes.

DaFace said that the current server couldn't handle the load, but in order to upgrade it costs more money per year.

I'm assuming this means if they get a better, more expensive server, then it would work better.

The fundraiser has been suggested, but neither DaFace nor AustinChief have started a thread.

I hope that their humility isn't keeping us from a better working site.

Sounds like my wife.

Surely we have people here who sell servers and what not, no?

Well, kind of. A server upgrade would help, but chances are, that doesn't happen until the end of the season regardless. That would require substantial downtime and is beyond my expertise.

That said, we have NEVER operated in the black for more than a month or two at a time, so I'm sure Kyle would appreciate any help.

Server upgrade as in new hardware?

Care to talk to him about creating a donation thread? Imagine the shit storm that will happen if the Chiefs make the playoffs and nobody can get on CP.

Oh, and how does one donate?

Yup.

There is a big yellow Donate button, to the right of User CP (where you check your rep)

Green link in the navbar.

The little green donate button along the top. Next to FAQ and Members List.

You ****in' color blind, yo?

Oh, and in my opinion, what we REALLY need is for someone who is an expert at optimizing MySQL to take a good luck at it. I've mentioned it numerous times, but if anyone sees this and fits the bill (or knows someone who does), have them shoot me a PM.

Any hardware wienies out there?

It's a hosted server, so we're not talking so much purchasing a new server as renting it.

Actually, I am.

I see a green one. I think that's because the dollar is green, or something.

Why the fuck have I never seen that before?

I presume it is secure and details aren't shared?

Wait, so Kyle is paying someone else to rent the server that keeps crashing?

"The card you entered cannot be used for this payment. Please enter a different credit or debit card number."

I tried. I purchase shit online at least 2-3 times a week with this card at a variety of places without any problems but for some reason every time I try to use paypal I get this message.

Yep, its through paypal and only AustinChief will know how much you donated.

Also, I am color blind so it looks yellow.

That explains the yellow thing. It also explains why you kept calling me a big, black, dude at the bash.

How much is typical? $50 or so? And, now that I think of it, I don't think I will donate since that fucker DaFace castrated my rep power.

I've donated $20 a few times, of course, I don't work in big oil. Throw down the fiddy there, BP. :D

You are leasing the hardware and bandwidth. The software is typically the responsibility of the client. (This is pretty typical for all but your most basic web sites.)

Neither do I.

That's quite a bit.

I think that the current server costs somewhere around $3000 for a year. I could be way off.

By all means though if you think $50 is a good number then donate that. I'm going to donate $20 probably.

Okay, so the bandwidth is sufficient but the hardware sucks?

MySQL makes people's hair fall out :(

Huh. I thought you worked in the oil industry. My mistake.

Hardware may indeed be the answer, but I don't know enough to know for sure. My gut feeling is that the issue has to do with the configuration of our database software. Web applications are significantly more complicated than your typical home computer application when it comes to how you set it up and how to make it run optimally (at least on the scale we're using it).

I hate software.

Donation sent. Thanks to whomever pointed that out to me.

:clap: Give this man a bolded name, and his rep back!

Since people seem to think that I defend oil companies, they also incorrectly presume that I work in the industry. I used to in an ancillary way.

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/archi.../t-113333.html

You probably saw this already?

To be fair, he specifically asked to have his rep reset. :)

I actually asked DaFace to neuter me. I wanted to see what it was like.

SO SAYETH THE SHEPARD! SO SAYETH THE LORD!

So...what is it like?

Not specifically, but I've dug all over the place. Trust me, if it was something I could figure out by digging around and trying shit, I would have. I probably wasted 40-60 hours screwing with the damn thing during a two-week period a while back.

I feel like Bill Paxton's character in True Lies.

+1

Cheap bastard.

Holy shit..lol..well, like it hasnt been said eleventy billion times already. thanks for everything you do! I know the pay isnt as good as it was when you were an employee of RainMan Inc LTD ™ :evil:

it is probably an optimization issue in MYSQL, That would be the place I would start looking first.

I take that back because I rarely see a database error message when the site is having issues, lemme think a few minutes....

This place has a massive ****ed up database ;) and MYSQL is a ****ing pain in the ass. when you dont allow guests it runs like a champion.

I just donated $10 with the stipulation that I'll donate more if a Donation Request thread is created for a new server...

I notice the site hangs, wonder if you may have a bad stick of ram or possibly a hard drive failure in the early stages?

Well, actually unless they have a very old server, it should handle a thousand or so on at once with some slowdown but not crashing... I had over 750 online at once on my server.. and it barely got over a 2 on the server load

I know at peak times, especially after a loss this place is hard to get on but during the week this should not be happening... Still think it may be a bad stick of ram or a hard drive beginning to stick and fail

Eh, maybe, but I doubt it. The basic underlying condition is that we occasionally have a query that just gets "stuck." Many times, it's a completely innocuous query (like the one that grabs the posts for a thread), so it's not that the specific query is the issue. But when one gets stuck, it locks the POST table, which causes tons of others to back up behind it.

Most of the time, the stuck query eventually finishes up, and the rest then complete. That's what is happening when we have a 15-30 second lag here and there.

Other times, the query just gets stuck for an insane amount of time. They're supposed to time out after a few minutes, but often don't for some reason. When that happens, it can take the place down for a long time until MySQL eventually croaks and resets itself. By that point, the stuck query has driven our server loads through the roof, so it takes even longer for the average load to come back down far enough for vB to let people back in. That's generally the issue we've seen on gamedays.

I THINK it has something to do with our memory allocation (key_buffers and stuff like that), but my tweaks don't seem to make any difference.

Our POST table is over 2 gigs in size - that's much more of a likely culprit than heavy user load. I've added a couple indexes, but that obviously hasn't helped much.

You dont restart MYSQL when it lags? it's an automated reset?

If I'm around, I do. If not, it hangs until mysql crashes and restarts itself.

If you can explain to the people I sent you the PM about, I am almost positive they can fix something like that. I just make a ticket out and the problem is fixed within a few hours and they tell you exactly what they did too.

I propose a "SAVE THE AIDS TREE" fund raiser.

I have a nice Chiefs leather coat that I don't wear anymore, but is a custom made one of a kind coat I would donate for a raffle or just outright bidding with proceeds going towards the planets new server if it would help.

When the server load gets very high, sometimes you have to wait until it crashes if the server is in a remote location because the admin can't get in there either...

It's kinda like an hourglass and a bottleneck effect, your command gets processed when your sand gets through...

I have a pair of slightly used (Like New) nuthooks that I'd donate.

We'll need those for Dungver week mother****er!:cuss: