TagsTagsWith the new web server installed and configured, at peak traffic time today with more 3,000 visitors online, the load average never got above 0.87. Typical load average for that kind of activity with our previous, somewhat underpowered web server was in the neighborhood of 4 to 6. Big win. That’s ...
We’re still digging through our speedy new web server and finding things to edit or optimize; at the moment I’m trying to figure out why mod_deflate doesn’t want to compress our CSS and Javascript files, even though I’ve set Apache’s configuration file to (supposedly) compress everything but images and PDFs. ...
You may have noticed some downtime last night; it’s because we’ve finally switched over to that new high-powered web server we mentioned recently, and a few things needed tweaking. Here’s an open thread while we look for more loose ends. UPDATE at 12/3/08 9:50:20 am: There are lots of little things to ...
Well, not quite here, but it’s set up and ready to migrate everything over from the current one, the one that’s serving the page you’re reading right now. The old one is a dual core Xeon 3.0, the new one is a quad core Xeon 3.4 with hyperthreading, so the processor ...
Maintenance notice: at about 6pm Pacific, we’re going to be offline for a short time while the database is moved to a disk partition with more space. It should take only a few minutes, so remember: don’t panic. UPDATE at 10/24/08 6:15:07 pm: Say it loud. We’re back and we’re proud. Database ...
Sometime in the vicinity of 9 pm Pacific, we’ll be shutting down LGF for some long overdue backup and maintenance chores. Here’s your first notice that it’s coming up, doing double duty as a Wednesday evening open thread...
I need to shut off comments for a little while, in order to do some database maintenance. This shouldn’t take more than an hour, possibly less. Stand by... UPDATE at 5/12/07 2:44:52 pm: All done. LGF trivia: an SQL dump of all our comments is about 800 megabytes.