Temporarily Starving the Faeries
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Temporarily Starving the Faeries
As some have noticed there has been a reduction in the service availability of the GCA wesbite.
We are attempting to address this with some back end changes.
In the meantime we are turning off the daily feeds. We will attempt to store the feeds and the intention is to rerun them when the backend changes are readied.
At this stage we hope to accomplish the job in the next couple of days, but will advise as we progress.
Thanks for your understanding.
The GCA Developers.
We are attempting to address this with some back end changes.
In the meantime we are turning off the daily feeds. We will attempt to store the feeds and the intention is to rerun them when the backend changes are readied.
At this stage we hope to accomplish the job in the next couple of days, but will advise as we progress.
Thanks for your understanding.
The GCA Developers.
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Submitting posts (like this) have been returning errors in the last 20 minutes, took 5 attempts....Previewing of the post has been fine.
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re: errors
You noticed that too?
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I don't think many people use the search so most probably wouldn't notice! It would be a shame to lose some history though.caughtatwork wrote:Yep. It is to note that there are over 100,000 threads.
I'd hate to lose history, but I wonder if trimming the database down to remove some of the crud would annoy people too much?
Maybe threads more than 4 years old with 4 posts or less could be culled?
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CPU and RAM are our biggest issues.
We are on a machine that is kindly provided to us free of charge by Ideology.
We have looked to moving to our own dual server environment (webserver and database machines) but we can't afford the $5,000 a year to run it.
We have no funding source. It's all voluntary effort by the developers.
We have looked at donations, but once we move off the existing server there is no going back. i.e. If we get funding for the first year, then each year after that it's a risky proposition to get funding. If we didn't get funding for the next year GCA would be dead in the water.
It's a decision that the community would need to make, but each time it's put up for discussion there's an initial flurry of interest then nothing.
With the number of people here that use the site (for the forums or otherwise) I would like to think that we could sustain ourselves without mandating a fee to use the system, but the danger is we can't and we die a horrible, horrible death.
It may be time to move seriously to asking for donations and moving to a dedicated machine.
We are on a machine that is kindly provided to us free of charge by Ideology.
We have looked to moving to our own dual server environment (webserver and database machines) but we can't afford the $5,000 a year to run it.
We have no funding source. It's all voluntary effort by the developers.
We have looked at donations, but once we move off the existing server there is no going back. i.e. If we get funding for the first year, then each year after that it's a risky proposition to get funding. If we didn't get funding for the next year GCA would be dead in the water.
It's a decision that the community would need to make, but each time it's put up for discussion there's an initial flurry of interest then nothing.
With the number of people here that use the site (for the forums or otherwise) I would like to think that we could sustain ourselves without mandating a fee to use the system, but the danger is we can't and we die a horrible, horrible death.
It may be time to move seriously to asking for donations and moving to a dedicated machine.
perhaps we should look are moving part of the service off , would that make it cheaper? or is that fee for h/w or co-location? since its an annual fee I assume its the housing of the server that's the cost.
If you split the service then would you be able to use a std web hosting as that would significantly reduce the cost.
Otherwise perhaps we could try and try an snag a donation from an ISP to locate the server.
BTW if you want to raise some funds then perhaps some coin sales or geo-hardware would be the way to go.
If you split the service then would you be able to use a std web hosting as that would significantly reduce the cost.
Otherwise perhaps we could try and try an snag a donation from an ISP to locate the server.
BTW if you want to raise some funds then perhaps some coin sales or geo-hardware would be the way to go.
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We've got this thread on funding, so I'll address your questions in there. That should keep things of a similar nature together.
We've got this thread on funding, so I'll address your questions in there. That should keep things of a similar nature together.
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thanks
fyi we aren't fishing for reports of speed increases... we are trying to work out what is causing a load which is higher than we think it ought to be. hence we turned off the feed to see whether they were the things bogging down the site. if there's not much difference, that means it's not the feed - it's something else
fyi we aren't fishing for reports of speed increases... we are trying to work out what is causing a load which is higher than we think it ought to be. hence we turned off the feed to see whether they were the things bogging down the site. if there's not much difference, that means it's not the feed - it's something else