New Server Info and Thanks!

[TG2]

with VBSEO did that also cause problems with the outbound email alerts for threads?

Centex has just replied to a thread you have subscribed to entitled - Sling adapter and Dish Online issues - in the The Dish Network Forum forum of SatelliteGuys.US.

This thread is located at:
http://www.satelliteguys.us/265857-sling-adapter-dish-online-issues-new-post.html

Here is the message that has just been posted:
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it didn't strike me at first.. but if you look at the URL more closely, the real thread is at this url:

http://www.satelliteguys.us/dish-network-forum/265857-sling-adapter-dish-online-issues.html

its missing the "dish-netowork-forum" part... and so isn't taking me to the correct page when I click on them.. but instead to a 404.

 

[IcEWoLF]

vBSEO has been re-enabled. Man I can't believe how much CPU that one program uses!

Optimize your forum by disabling vbSEO (or why I deleted vBSEO from my big board) - Admin Zone Forums

Have you considered possibly adding vBOptimise from Dragonbyte tech?
vB Optimise Pro - DragonByte Tech | vBulletin Mods & Addons

Check out how much they are saving on resource statistics:
vB Optimise - Resource Statistics

I think these optimizations could help.
Also using litespeed might be a better option than apache.
Some members (web host providers) claiming they are able to reduce resource usage by 50%.
Less strain on the machine.
Web Hosting Talk - The largest, most influential web hosting community on the Internet

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Thanks Icewolf,

The other night when we had the 6,000 people online with by turning off vBSEO our server load dropped by close to 70%!

We are using NGINX as our webserver.

BTW good news, it appears that our new server will be arriving at our new ISP on Monday! (And then once that new server is online then we don't need to worry about things anymore)

 

[IcEWoLF]

Nice Scott, looking forward to see how Liquid Web treats you.
I am planning to either get WiredTree or LiquidWeb
If Liquidweb does well for you guys then I will switch my website to LW too hehe .
I run vBSEO for my forums and I have to agree with you, it's a resource hog!
Maybe if you have an affiliate link I can certainly use that too I wouldn't mind helping out ST any way I can. I love this community since it's been very informative and very helpful over the years that I've joined.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Just checked the FedEx website and it shows the status as follows...

On FedEx vehicle for delivery - Scheduled for delivery next business day.

Yippie!

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Yippie, the new server has been delivered to our ISP.

Now we need to wait for them to install it and set it up. From there we will be loading the OS from remote and moving all data from our servers to the new servers. I am hoping we are on the new server in about a week.

 

[isaacmorseMI]

Yippie, the new server has been delivered to our ISP.

Now we need to wait for them to install it and set it up. From there we will be loading the OS from remote and moving all data from our servers to the new servers. I am hoping we are on the new server in about a week.

Awesome!

Sent from my iPad 2 using the SatelliteGuys App

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Just formatted the drives on the new server.

I am told that the conversion to the new server could be done within the next few days!

Exciting times ahead!

 

[isaacmorseMI]

When will she be fully online? When I go to the new server URL I don't get anything.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

You won't get anything. There is no OS installed on the server yet.

 

[isaacmorseMI]

You won't get anything. There is no OS installed on the server yet.

Oh ok. It's very exicting that the new server is only 45 minutes away from me! Looking forward to what this new server will bring to the site. Are you going to bring the chatroom back now with the new server in place?

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Not at this time. We were paying over $300 a year for the chat room which went unused most of the time. Since DISH discontinued their chats on TV there has been no need for us to have a chat function here.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Thank you to Steve L for your support on the new server.

Work continues on the new server today. Then the fun of transfering 59 GB from Dallas, TX to Lansing,MI of attachments starts.

 

[Tampa8]

Glad I could help a little.

 

[larrykenney]

It's fast, Scott... VERY FAST!

Thanks!

Larry
SF

 

[IcEWoLF]

Scott, I see you added vB Optimise.
Less queries and the forums load super fast!
One last suggestion would be possibly even add this mod: http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=266696

I love this site, always looking up to this website when I work on developing my gaming community

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Was running vBoptimize for awhile now, but over the weekend I upgraded to the pro version.

In addition this week I switched over our search from the built in vBulletin search to the more robust Sphinx search.

In addition on the old server we were using a combo of NGINX and Apache for our web servers, now on the new server we are 100% NGINX. This is great for speed, but the lack of Apache has caused an issue with the "New First Post" feature. We are told by vBSEO it is because we are running vBulletin 4.1.2 and that this problem is corrected in vBulletin 4.1.5. (And now 4.1.6 is out) so looks like tonight I will have to update to it. The new version of vBulletin has a new editor in it which unfortunately will take some getting use to by some folks.

 

[cosmo_kramer]

Was running vBoptimize for awhile now, but over the weekend I upgraded to the pro version.

In addition this week I switched over our search from the built in vBulletin search to the more robust Sphinx search.

In addition on the old server we were using a combo of NGINX and Apache for our web servers, now on the new server we are 100% NGINX. This is great for speed, but the lack of Apache has caused an issue with the "New First Post" feature. We are told by vBSEO it is because we are running vBulletin 4.1.2 and that this problem is corrected in vBulletin 4.1.5. (And now 4.1.6 is out) so looks like tonight I will have to update to it. The new version of vBulletin has a new editor in it which unfortunately will take some getting use to by some folks.

Great news, because I really rely on the "New First Post" feature.... :up

 

[DodgerKing]

Which member is Steve L?

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

The site will be down for about 10 minutes (hopefully shorter) while we upgrade from vBulletin 4.1.2 to vBulletin 4.1.6. Hopefully this will fix the go to new posts issue. I plan on doing this work around 8PM ET.