white4d96 Posted April 10, 2009 Report Share Posted April 10, 2009 Every night I come home and get on SMD. Every night at about 1am SMD will disappear. 9 times out of 10 I am trying to reply to a thread and when I hit add my browser says there's an IPS error or something like that. Anyone else having this problem? Quote Too many projects, too little time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ineeDBass419 Posted April 10, 2009 Report Share Posted April 10, 2009 yea i get that to..only late at night tho Quote xbox 360 gamertag-greenrocks420 Not insulting you or anything, but did you just call us "bloody winging fairies" ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazeris Posted April 10, 2009 Report Share Posted April 10, 2009 I am sure there is some type of server maintenance that happens late at night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildbeast15 Posted April 10, 2009 Report Share Posted April 10, 2009 Most servers restart at a time when NOONE is on to clean stuff up inside the server it self and cool down a bit... Quote The set up your talking about would sound great in my Tahoe. Trade you my dog for it. He has one eye but that only makes for bad depth perception so hey so what if he is running into shit, look at it this way he is easy to sneak up ninja style on. (right side only)</div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric B Posted April 11, 2009 Report Share Posted April 11, 2009 its about 1:05 A.M. central time that it happens Quote 2007 Chevy HHR LT UNDER CONSTRUCTION 1st Place Loud N Low 2010 MWSPL Finals 3rd Place Xtreme 3 2010 MWSPL Finals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest KyleCannon Posted April 11, 2009 Report Share Posted April 11, 2009 Linux/Unix servers do not have to be shut off to cool off or clean up anything (Even properly configured windows servers). cPanel does a backup around that time and does client backups, server updates and such... the backups are highly intensive on server resources and since the server is so loaded down, the database is the first to go on the server when there are tons of people on a shared hosting environment. Either that, or they simply shut down MySQL (Database server) to do a dump of everyones databases.... but then again cPanel does it on their own... btw, cPanel is the control panel the hosting company uses so the clients can manage their websites. I know this all too well.... heh. But I hate cPanel with a passion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forevrbumpn Posted April 11, 2009 Report Share Posted April 11, 2009 funny, I get that when the forum is swamped, around 9pm-ish I heard from David I think that it was from to many hits, and exceeding bandwidth, I may be wrong though Quote I have a ritual called "terminator". I crouch in the shower in the "naked terminator" pose. With eyes closed I crouch for a minute and visualize either Arnie or the guy from the 2nd movie. I then start to hum the T2 theme. Slowly I rise to a standing position and open my eyes. It helps me get through my day. The only problem is if the shower curtain sticks to my terminator leg. It sorta ruins the fantasy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest KyleCannon Posted April 11, 2009 Report Share Posted April 11, 2009 (edited) No thats another reason too when the forums get hit massively... the database server is being worked alot... now imagine 100 or even 500 people on the same server accessing their sites and their sites have visitors... some may be not popular and some may be more popular than SMD... so yeah basically its like you doing a crap ton of things on your computer at once. Peak times hurt it a lot as well. Thats why I like to run InnoDB tables rather than MyISAM because of the row level locking rather than table level locking (helps the database allow multiple things to be changed at once rather than waiting in a queue) Peak times really hammer shared environments if the server isn't really beefy and/or configured correctly. The IPB Error solely comes from the database failing to either connect in a specific amount of time or another kind of MySQL error. When i was running my old site I had to deal with this problem. My site was getting 300 requests a second and over 5 thousand database queries a second. I had to spend hundreds of hours fixing this crap... sad thing is Steve can't do nothing about it. It's all on the host. :-\ Im exhausted. Hope I made sense. Edited April 11, 2009 by KyleCannon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigJohnny Posted April 11, 2009 Report Share Posted April 11, 2009 when there are a lot of visitors, there are way more hits to the DB than there are visitors. on this page alone there could be 30 or so queries to the database, pulling info, avatars etc. So each person viewing this page is hitting the database 30 times, multiply that by 10 users and that's 300 database queries/connections. every page you see on a message board has multiple queries to the database to build the pages. thats why large message boards are so server intensive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest KyleCannon Posted April 11, 2009 Report Share Posted April 11, 2009 thats right big johnny thanks for the details Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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