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Richard Davey
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Posted: 30th Jun 2004 04:33 Edited at: 30th Jun 2004 04:49
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Hi all,

As promised, the forums are now running on a brand-new dedicated server. This beast of a box is doing nothing at all but powering Apollo which has given it a nice kick in the pants re: response-times, and also feed-up a load of resources on the main web server.

There is very little actual difference between this and the previous version, a few minor tweaks here and there - but that is all. The javascript menus are gone to help with page load speed and the forum now always defaults to the TGC header/footer colour scheme, but it is a small price to pay really.

If you find a problem and can post about it - do so here please. If it's a posting/replying related problem then email me instead.

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Ok, my offset time doesn\'t change

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You got a lot of \\\'s and /\'s in your post for some reason, as least thats how it is on my computer...

Other than that, I\'ve posted messages and it works, so good job.

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can i just say it\'s bloddy fast!

keep up the good work

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Backslashes!!! //// \\\\\\\\ /.///\\ /\\ /\\

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Posted: 30th Jun 2004 04:39 Edited at: 30th Jun 2004 04:39
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yay

Now lets have some backslash fun...

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Smells like PHP to me: )

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Yeah, bloody magic quotes! Will get those sorted now

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Testing \' \' \' \'

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Quote: "Yeah, bloody magic quotes! Will get those sorted now "


lol, I just got a php error about an undefined magic quote function I take it that was the updating

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Ok - sorted

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Excellent, so this works now? \\
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Ooo, pretty colours...


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its alive!
good job rich!


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Forums are back


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Posted: 30th Jun 2004 05:47 Edited at: 30th Jun 2004 05:51
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Rich - old profiles in new posts

I edited something in my profile, but when I post my old profile is shown. Also there is no link from the forum pages to the new profile area.

EDIT: Sorted. The link to MODIFY PROFILES still point to www... instead of forum.... so typing it in manually brings you to the correct page. Once there and edited, the correct profile data is displayed with the new posts




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@CR --> you talking to me?

Rich is there any chance of having the original design for the thread icons back?


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Quick Test


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RichS no I was talking to Davey


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oh. too many bloody rich's/dick's


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Yeah, these new icons are really ugly, no offense.


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just like to make clear that im not grateful for what rich has done


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Quote: " just like to make clear that im not grateful for what rich has done"


That is a typo I hope


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no i mean what i say.


Yeah i meant: i AM grateful for what goes on


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Quote: "Yeah i meant: i AM grateful for what goes on"


Thought so.


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This server is slower....
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I noticed the fastest page loads here arent as fast as the fastest page lloads on the old server, but I am betting that this server will remain consistently at this speed (which is fairly fast) - which I think was the point.


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Thank you Rich for eliminating post count (hopefully it stays that way)

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CattleRustler - there is no reason for any page to load faster in your browser than before, nothing has changed "under the hood" - it's the same code, the same SQL statements, the same eventual page size that is transmited. What SHOULD change is the reliability and consistency, as you said, as speed at peak times of the day.

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Btw Rich (Davey) take you got me email the one that said dont delete lmao

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Rich - Then I have to say that the pages are not loading as fast as they should. I don't know why but these pages arent loading as fast as they used to, but if the "crawl-to-a-standstill" factor has been eliminated then I am with fine with it


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Posted: 30th Jun 2004 09:53 Edited at: 30th Jun 2004 09:53
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Try trace routing to the server to see what the general response time is for you and compare it with the main web server.

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my average ping to this server is 110ms. Thats kinda slow. I will trace route and post here...


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yeah, I actually seems to be a tad slower...

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trace route:

Rich - does this mean anything?




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All this time i thought a server was someone who plays tennis

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CattleR - depends, compare it with a trace to our main web server and see what the difference is. 110ms is perfectly fine, I average about 125ms from here (UK) to our web server (US) and about 58ms to the Forum server.

This new server is hosted in Europe which will please 50% of our visitors and cause the other 50% to make a trans-atlantic hop to get here, but these days the impact that has isn't significant enough to worry about. So long as it STAYS at around 110-200ms, even under high-load times of the day, then I'll be perfectly happy.

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Thanks Rich


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Quote: "This new server is hosted in Europe which will please 50% of our visitors and cause the other 50% to make a trans-atlantic hop to get here"


So we need to change our offset times, right? This also would explain for me and many others why it seems shower.

BTW: Issue 18 has fourm links that don't work anymore, where can I find this stuff?

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works well from down under but i have a tweaked cable modem so um yeah, any 56k aussies notice any difference?

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I'm happy. Ping times to forum.thegamecreators.com is only 35ns for me.


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Quote: "So we need to change our offset times, right?"


Noo.. you don't say?! What is that message I put at the top of every single page on here saying?

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Wehay, thanks Rich, what ever you did, I can now post again.

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Twas an error with quotes in signatures which is why only a handful of people witnessed it. But now resolved.

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BTW Thanks for putting back the old Icons, Much better than the new ones.

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It seems that a though characters aren´t displayed propaly. I keep seeing a strange "a" followed by the euro sign instead of whatever should have been there.
Edit: It happens in the Miss Kitty Fantastico... demo and screens thread.

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Yeah, I see those strange shapes too!

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I will look into this - I have seen it also, but only in a very very small number of threads.

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It is probably the codepage changing between UTF-8 and ISO 8859-1, if you've gone from US to European servers. You can force it back in the .htaccess file, can't remember the syntax off-hand, but you find it on google

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