Server Maintenance Daily Tasks

[meissen]

Just an FYI - if you experience an issue at the times listed below, just wait a minute and refresh.

Every day at 3am:
- Stop Web Server service
- Take all the log files from the previous day, rename them with a date stamp
- Start Web Server service
- Take date-stamped log files and throw them into a zip for archiving.
Reason: Our log file was at 5gigs and trying to be read by the statistics program which could have been slowing down the server. The log file hadn't been cycled since October.

Every day at Noon:
- Restart web server service
Reason: Restarting the service is what I usually have been doing about once a day because of the "slow downs" on the site. Hopefully with it being done at 3am and at Noon it will be sufficient.

[Derek]

about an hour ago it was impossible to browse the website, kept freezing my internet every time, all other websites were fine though. Appears to be good now.

[meissen]

I think, in all honesty, part of the problem was that 86Camaro decided to use an obnoxiously excessive amount of smilies in the shoutbox and it was trying to display all those smilies to logged in users on the main page.

[Derek]

I think, in all honesty, part of the problem was that 86Camaro decided to use an obnoxiously excessive amount of smilies in the shoutbox and it was trying to display all those smilies to logged in users on the main page.

sigh, thats freaking stupid, although thankfully we dont have to see his completely useless posts in there any more.

[my95z28]

about an hour ago it was impossible to browse the website, kept freezing my internet every time, all other websites were fine though. Appears to be good now.

Yep, mifbody was trying to kill my comp as well. Glad you fixed the problem B

[sman]

Its been REALLLLLLLLY slow for me lately, hopefully this will fix it.

[meissen]

It has it's moments. I usually don't notice it too much because I open each thread I want to read in a new tab so by the time I'm done selecting all the new threads to read it's done loading them all.

[92conv]

I think, in all honesty, part of the problem was that 86Camaro decided to use an obnoxiously excessive amount of smilies in the shoutbox and it was trying to display all those smilies to logged in users on the main page.

Yeah, I figured that was the problem so just left the site for awhile. Came back and B had it under control, Good Job!!

[MP81]

That was crazy, though it didn't affect my computer at all.

Thanks for setting up this, though, so that we can have a much faster server.

[Blue_Thunder]

hmm, I have always had a problem with the site not going anywhere after awhile. Just happened a couple minutes ago too. It won't load the page it just sits there. I have to close the window and open a new one in order to load the site agian.

[jakes_GSXR]

Doesn't matter how many webpages, applications, music, ect im doing, or the amount of smileys that are present: mifbody always seems to work just fine.

[92conv]

Doesn't matter how many webpages, applications, music, ect im doing, or the amount of smileys that are present: mifbody always seems to work just fine.

Jake, Seriously everytime you have done that, it has slowed the site down for me. (I usually seldom have any problems other than then.) I'm glad it doesn't effect your system, but quite frankly you aren't the only person on here!! It would be nice if you would think of others trying to navigate the site before posting so many smileys. Tell me really, what is the motive behind doing such a thing anyways?? One, two, three or heck even five and we get the idea, but 100+??????????? Come on!!!

[BP_Z28]

always works fine for me on this new pc

[meissen]

Has the site been running better for everyone? Seems like it's been very fast for me.

[TSTONE]

havent had any issues for a while now