Gobalopper Posted September 30, 2008 Author Share Posted September 30, 2008 I am rather busy at the moment. Hopefully mid-October I will have more free time. Unfortunately this is always the busiest time of the year for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gobalopper Posted October 15, 2008 Author Share Posted October 15, 2008 Just a note to say that the site has been switched to use DreamhostPS for the web server. It should help improve the speed of the server as we now have a "virtual" server instead of a shared server. I might also do the same for our MySQL setup depending on the costs. Anyway, let me know how it goes. And yes I'm still busy for another week or so... so make that late mid-October for my return. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 I noticed the entire website was down last night and today. Good to know it was planned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SandChigger Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 Ah...faster service of...what?(Awfully slow around here, wot?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gryphon Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 It should help improve the speed of the server as we now have a "virtual" server instead of a shared server.I presume you know that virtual server is still a shared virtual server on the same physical hardware ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gobalopper Posted October 20, 2008 Author Share Posted October 20, 2008 Yeah we do still share resources but this option gives us more control over the resources the site can use. Granted the more resources the higher the cost per month. :)I've actually noticed a speed increase but maybe thats just me. There is also the option of switching our databases to the same sort of setup which would help as the forums obviously use that a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 According to downloads thread. Downloads are disabled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunenewt Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 I've noticed a slight increase in the speed too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunner154 Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 Help! We're being victimised by spam bots, once again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gobalopper Posted November 12, 2008 Author Share Posted November 12, 2008 Yeah, just report the post and one of the moderators will delete it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 I was going to post in this thread after reporting it, and now that I got back from school I see another spam in the dungeon. They certainly seem to be targeting us a lot in the past 24 hours.Went from "secret fed2k page", to software, to porn all in 6 hours.EDIT:Spammers now onto selling drugs.Maybe turn on moderation for first post to prevent spammers from posting? At least until this attack is over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alchemi2 Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 At least 3 spams on Emperor battle for dune boards. ??? :O ;D most new threads in a while though :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunner154 Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 I've started reporting a few of the spam threads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gobalopper Posted November 13, 2008 Author Share Posted November 13, 2008 I turned the complexity of the captcha when you signup to high... we'll see if that helps at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 When I go to my profile, then ask for my stats, it gives an error.Internal Server ErrorThe server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@forum.dune2k.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.More information about this error may be available in the server error log.Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunenewt Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 I keep getting that on random pages on the forum as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SandChigger Posted November 22, 2008 Share Posted November 22, 2008 <i>"...and anything you might have done that may have caused the error."</i>I love how they always include that. Like YOU did something wrong by requesting the SERVER to serve up some content. ::) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFlibble Posted November 22, 2008 Share Posted November 22, 2008 It looks especially nice in my browser (see attachment) ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beonid Posted November 23, 2008 Share Posted November 23, 2008 It looks especially nice in my browser (see attachment) ;DNot just you, my friend. Not just you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted November 23, 2008 Share Posted November 23, 2008 It looks especially nice in my browser (see attachment) ;DI edited my post so that should not happen anymore (unless you have small resolution). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drjones Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 when the downloads will back again.... can anyone know??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gambit Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Any idea when the downloads will be available?? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 I was thinking, if new downloads are not added to the download section that often, how about creating a torrent file for each section (Emperor, Dune2000, Dune2 etc)?That way people can keep the downloads up when the server is down. When they download the torrent, if they only want a specific file, they only have to select that one and not download the entire contents of torrent. For example if they want a fan made emperor map, the person would download the Emperor torrent. When the torrent opens, only need to select say "Voodoomayhem LAN Map" and leave all other files unchecked.Using this would mean less bandwidth, and a way to ensure downloads are kept up when download server down.Unfortunately my internet sucks and I can't use torrents otherwise I'd help seed.I forget how big the download section is.Downloads have been down for 2 months. Do we need a hat fund?EDIT:http://dune2k.com/Duniverse/Novels/Doesn't seem to show much. Didn't it used to link to amazon.com books? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gryphon Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 Gob, just being curious.Is the main reason for the download section not being available the lack of space or bandwidth?If so and we do need another hat fund, how much space / bandwidth are we talking about here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gobalopper Posted December 30, 2008 Author Share Posted December 30, 2008 Well the problem is not bandwidth because we have a lot of that but that it eats up CPU/memory which there are caps on. I have made a couple modifications to the download script and we'll see if that helps. As it is now I pay ~$40USD/month and am at the top of the limits for that. So with downloads enabled I will likely have to boost that a bit.Here is the graph for the last month:Currently ps4608 is guaranteed 429 MB for $42.90/month. (Burstable to 858 MB) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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