Topic: Forum keeps going offline

[solarsplace]

Hi

The forum seems to be getting gradually worse for being down and constantly alternating between available and down.

Not sure where its hosted although a responsive tracert ends up at Node 4.

Is it on a shared server and someone else keeps running cron jobs that are bringing the server down?

Anyway, what about a small campaign for a pound or 2 donation from each member and get the forum hosted somewhere more reliable?

Cheers

[artistpaul]

IM all for that

Hows best way to organise?

Cheers

Paul

[solarsplace]

Hi

Well, personally speaking I'm more than happy to make another donation, however I think we certainly need a nay or a yay from admin before we even consider how to launch the campaign.

What do you think Admin?

Regards

Russell

[Vindaloo-crazy]

Server seems alright to me and I'm in Oz, you're not downloading loads of steps videos over utorrent are you?

[Yousef]

Guys,

What we actually need is virtual private server (VPS), this will give us much bigger dedicated  space and allow pictures and videos to be uploaded directly to the site, rather than hosted elsewhere.

I guess the site it just getting too big for shared hosting anymore.
The one I would look at is the VPS lite (?99 per year) which has 25GB or space.  At the moment we are 2GB and way over the allocated space according to my stats.

Link to VPS
http://servercentre.net/index.php/joomla/managed-hosting/category-list

If you intend to donate please put in the message 'Server Space' then when we have ?100 quid ill sort it.  I already use these guys to host the site so they should be able to transition the site swifty with minimal downtime.

Stew

[Peripatetic Phil]

Would there be any merit in restricting hosted content to just the textual content and essential software, and making use of free image hosting services such as Picasaweb and free video hosting services such as Vimeo for the more space-demanding resources ?

[Yousef]

I hear what your saying but after a certain amount of time, free hosting space removes the images, this means posts are left without images embedded for all to enjoy.

Hence why i set up the image hosting solution.

Ill leave it upto you guys, but I guess it would benefit the forum.

Stew

[Peripatetic Phil]

I've never known Picasaweb remove an image, Admin; it is a part of the Google empire, and seems rock-solid so far.  I'm certainly happy to chip in if a VPS is the only reliable route, but if you can easily get the statistics, it would be interesting to know what our usage currently is excluding images and videos (and how this compares to our limit).

[Razor]

Hey Stew,

I'm more than happy to chip in also but do you think that this deserves a topic of it's own.  I'm worried that this thread could get buried .  I know it may sound like going a bit "cap in hand" to the members but we all enjoy this great site, and I'm sure we all want to see it run at it's optimum.

Ray

[Yousef]

Ok,

On that basis I have moved this to the Let's Talk Curry Section for max visability and to see if people want to help out.

Stew