limetech Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 UPDATE: I have identified an issue with the SMF forum software which has been causing a great deal of server resource usage. I have re-installed SMF and the 'tapatalk' mod (removed for now) and re-enabled the forum (on the old hosting account). This is what you are seeing now. Meanwhile, the main site, forum, and wiki has been migrated to a vps, though it is not currently being pointed-to by any DNS servers. Here is the plan. After the new site has been thoroughly tested, I will switch my registrars name servers to point to the new site. DNS propagation usually takes 24-48 hours. The forum on the new site is in the state the forum was in on March 15, and is set to "maintenance mode". During the DNS transition you may see the old site or the new site - if you see the forum in Maintenance mode it means you are probably seeing the new site, and some new posts might appear missing. As soon as I see the forum in Maintenance mode, I will shut down the forum on the old site, backup/restore the database and attachments to the new site, and then turn off Maintenance mode on the new site... make sense? Quote Link to comment
BRiT Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 So the errors I'm seeing will be a thing of the past? 508 Resource Limit Is Reached Resource Limit Is Reached The website is temporarily unable to service your request as it exceeded resource limit. Please try again later. Quote Link to comment
limetech Posted March 17, 2012 Author Share Posted March 17, 2012 That's the idea. Also see update in original post. Quote Link to comment
BRiT Posted March 17, 2012 Share Posted March 17, 2012 Shame that the new setup seems to be causing some issues. I hope you're able to work through them. Quote Link to comment
MyKroFt Posted March 17, 2012 Share Posted March 17, 2012 have your current host change your TTL on your DNS to 30-60 min, then when you switch, it wont take 24-48 hrs for dns to propogate..... this is what I do for my clients that ask... Myk Quote Link to comment
limetech Posted March 17, 2012 Author Share Posted March 17, 2012 have your current host change your TTL on your DNS to 30-60 min, then when you switch, it wont take 24-48 hrs for dns to propogate..... this is what I do for my clients that ask... Myk Right, forgot about that trick, I'll see if they will do that. Quote Link to comment
WeeboTech Posted March 17, 2012 Share Posted March 17, 2012 Phew I was going through withdrawl! Quote Link to comment
prostuff1 Posted March 17, 2012 Share Posted March 17, 2012 Phew I was going through withdrawl! ditto... I was not sure what to do with myself Quote Link to comment
limetech Posted March 17, 2012 Author Share Posted March 17, 2012 Something that started happening was php5 crashing many times per day, causing 40MB+ core dumps to get generated. You would think nothing in SMF code could cause this, and the code hasn't changed since going to 2.0.1 several months ago. The tech looking at this decided they need to have a "Level II Technician" look at it on Monday Pretty sure I've narrowed it down to the 'tapatalk' mod, but not yet figured out how it could possibly cause a PHP crash. I am going to quit investigating this for now since there are much bigger fish to fry. So for time being, tapatalk support will be turned off Quote Link to comment
sidezero Posted March 17, 2012 Share Posted March 17, 2012 30-60 minutes for the DNS TTL still seems like a bit much.. You should be able to have them lower it down to 5 minutes. Quote Link to comment
limetech Posted March 18, 2012 Author Share Posted March 18, 2012 30-60 minutes for the DNS TTL still seems like a bit much.. You should be able to have them lower it down to 5 minutes. Yup, they lowered it to 300 sec., but they just did this, so still have to wait a day or two before making the name server switch, right (but then when the NS's are switched, it should only take 5 min for everyone to be updated, right)? Quote Link to comment
sidezero Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 Correct. You want to let the current TTL run down on all the name servers out there so they cache the new value. Once the new value is cached you should be good to make your change. Quote Link to comment
01111000 Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 Now that the website (forum) seems to be back up and functional perhaps you can provide us an update regarding this topic: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=18512.0 Quote Link to comment
prostuff1 Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Now that the website (forum) seems to be back up and functional perhaps you can provide us an update regarding this topic: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=18512.0 The site migration did not go as planned, hence the reason some stuff is still broken. Quote Link to comment
mle Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 If you are using PHP52. There are serious bugs in PHP5.2 and using any sort of Zend Optimizer or xcache. Gist is stay away from PHP5.2 if you have control over that. I've had tons of problems with 52 in my experience. 53 fixed all my woes (if SMF will work with it). Quote Link to comment
limetech Posted March 19, 2012 Author Share Posted March 19, 2012 Everything is set. Wiki is already in Read-Only mode. Forum will go to Maintenance Mode at 6 PM, PDT. Quote Link to comment
limetech Posted March 20, 2012 Author Share Posted March 20, 2012 Ok, I think it worked... Quote Link to comment
subwars Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 yay, now to get that version 5 finished Quote Link to comment
speeding_ant Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Forum way faster Quote Link to comment
kizer Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Forum does load faster. I'm still seeing missing images like so. http://lime-technology.com/forum/Themes/default/images/english-utf8/new.gif I'm guessing either they don't exist, DNS thing or I need to reload my browser. LOL Quote Link to comment
dgaschk Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 The download links don't work. Quote Link to comment
piggyfinger Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 same here. downloads is broke. Quote Link to comment
MyKroFt Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 broke as well, and my flash just failed and cant get software to get my server back up. download.lime-technology.com is not resolving anyone have http://lime-technology.com/download/doc_download/30-unraid-server-version-50-beta14-aio they can post somewhere temp? Myk Quote Link to comment
madburg Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 This is all great, we're are we in movement with unRAID 5? Quote Link to comment
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