Moved the VPS to a new server

alex.s · August 30th, 2011, 12:34 PM

the site is like seriously 3 times faster.

thanks alex!

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EDIT by Alex (not alex.s

): I merged these threads before seeing that alex.s had actually beaten me to the punch.

Alex · August 30th, 2011, 12:36 PM

After the colo power failure a few weeks ago, I had to move the server to a temporary one. It was working fine, but it was a little busy, and performance wasn't as good as it could be. Also, it was an older server that was getting a little expensive for what we were receiving.

This morning, I moved ninjette.org over to a new server. This required a change in IP address, so it might be a short while before everyone sees this new one, but the total downtime was only 20 minutes or so. There may be some small bugs I didn't catch yet where the IP address needs to be manually changed, so if you run into any of them, please post up in this thread or just PM me.

Sorry that there was any downtime at all, but glad it wasn't too extensive.

Alex · August 30th, 2011, 12:38 PM

Thx, Alex! As more folks come back on, I'm not sure if you'll continue to see a 3-fold performance increase, but it should still be noticeably faster than it was before.

/merged with other server move thread

ninja_sleeper · August 30th, 2011, 02:34 PM

I hate when ninjette is down MAKES ME PANIC.

Alex · August 30th, 2011, 02:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ninja_sleeper

I hate when ninjette is down

dubojr1 · August 31st, 2011, 05:26 AM

My Firefox tab doesn't show the green K now....

This have something to do with the change over?

Alex · August 31st, 2011, 06:40 AM

It shouldn't, the favicon is still showing up for me fine on chrome and firefox. You can try clearing your cache?

dubojr1 · August 31st, 2011, 07:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alex

It shouldn't, the favicon is still showing up for me fine on chrome and firefox. You can try clearing your cache?

Thanks Alex. That worked. You da man...

Alex · March 20th, 2012, 11:12 AM

OK - moved it again this morning. We were on a standard "shared" VPS up until today. Rimuhosting offers something they called "semi-dedicated" VPS, where instead of sharing the host with a few dozen VM's, this host is limited to 5 or 6. The physical hardware itself is not much faster (or slower), but there are just less people using it, so the response time should be more consistent. It is three times as expensive as what we were paying, but I do want to see if it makes a difference. If it doesn't, we can always go back just as easily.

At some point we might need our own dedicated server, but the cost would be doubled yet again. The advantage of our own server would be access to a ton of cheap disk space. On the VPS's, the disk space is somewhat limited, but to be honest this site doesn't use nearly as much disk as I would have expected. (Most folks tend to host their pictures on another site and just link them here, if they were all stored here the storage needs would increase).

Alex · March 20th, 2012, 02:37 PM

Sorry about the downtime. Was optimizing a database table, it crashed, and I was on to other things so didn't see it for awhile.

But the good news is that all of the tables are now completely optimized, and at least from what I'm seeing, the site is now as fast as it's ever been. There are 150+ users online, but searches, opening up new threads in new tabs, and anything else I'm trying has .1 to .2 second response time. I think that the corruption in the "post" table may have been part of the reason for things to be slowing down before, but it's always hard to track root causes of things like this.

nickjpass · March 20th, 2012, 02:43 PM

Really quick alex. Good job

Jiggles · March 20th, 2012, 03:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alex

It is three times as expensive as what we were paying, but I do want to see if it makes a difference.

I see my membership dues have increased to 5x what they were before, are you pocketing the rest?

On a side note, here is the new logo you asked me to create

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alex

(Most folks tend to host their pictures on another site and just link them here, if they were all stored here the storage needs would increase).

I can't speak for why other people do this, but the reason I do it is that I don't like the little thumbnail images that occur when uploading to ninjette. I prefer my pics to show up full size.

Alex · March 20th, 2012, 03:12 PM

Love the logo.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jiggles

I can't speak for why other people do this, but the reason I do it is that I don't like the little thumbnail images that occur when uploading to ninjette. I prefer my pics to show up full size.

If the pics are in albums here, they can be linked full-size without thumbnails. But the normal attachments to posts are thumbnailed. When someone clicks on the thumbnail, they do show the full-size pic, but you're right, they do have to click it.

This is one of those decisions that does directly affect bandwidth costs; if all locally stored pics showed fullsize on each thread load, the bandwidth the site uses would go up a noticeable amount, which does directly translate to $. I only pay for what we need, so we're always right at the cap.

gfloyd2002 · March 20th, 2012, 06:05 PM

Just so we know how much to appreciate you . . . how much does this site cost you and how much do you make on advertising?

Is there a noticeable difference to you if we click "yes" in your User CP/Options in the "View motorcycle-related advertising" option? If so, I'm happy to encourage it here and elsewhere.

If the answer is that you aren't out of pocket (which I doubt), I'm happy and no further details needed. But if you are out of pocket, I wouldn't mind doing a bit of fundraising to see what we can do as a community to better support the site.

Alex · March 20th, 2012, 06:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gfloyd2002

Just so we know how much to appreciate you . . .

Ad revenues more than make up for hosting and other costs on the site. I do have that checkbox in the User CP for people to disable advertising if they want, but it toggles back on again at the beginning of each month for everybody. Of course people can use adblock and all of the other plug-ins to get rid of the google ads everywhere, and if they are so inclined, I'm not terribly worried.

Not going to get wealthy with sites like these (unless I had 1000 of them), but the ads are enough for a few tanks of gas here and there on top of the fixed costs, and I'm grateful for them. There's no need now, and I can't foresee a need in the future, when I'd have to solicit any membership or other types of fees in order to keep this place up and running. I'm not silly enough to turn down the generous offers that some folks have made over time when creating large group buys on the site, and I'm thankful for those as well.

choneofakind · March 20th, 2012, 06:58 PM

I've started clicking on the ads once in a while in hopes that you make a little more. I want a shirt too.

lc86 · March 20th, 2012, 07:24 PM

Quote:

I can't speak for why other people do this, but the reason I do it is that I don't like the little thumbnail images that occur when uploading to ninjette. I prefer my pics to show up full size.

I usually host the pics on another site because I never took the 3 seconds it takes to figure out how to host the pics on this site and format them to be exactly where you want them in your post. All I know is if I click 'add attachment' I am shown a box with a lot of numbers and limitations that pushes my ADD to its limits, so I just stick with copying and pasting the img links from flikr.

etiainen · March 20th, 2012, 08:02 PM

Safari got angry, and I was still getting emails but couldn't access. Killed Safari and restarted, came back up fine.

Yay faster site.

nickjpass · March 20th, 2012, 08:29 PM

Can you believe some forums charge a membership!??!?!

MikeBudd · March 21st, 2012, 12:41 AM

Faster ninjette.org = faster ninjette. My top speed increased by at least 2 mph simply because of this.

Alex · March 21st, 2012, 12:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by choneofakind

I've started clicking on the ads once in a while in hopes that you make a little more. I want a shirt too.

I appreciate it. If the ad is interesting to you, feel free to click it, that's why they are there. But - don't go crazy and start clicking everything in sight. Google has obscenely sophisticated algorithms to try and detect "real" vs "fake" ad clicks, and if flagged, the site can actually make less money than it would otherwise.

choneofakind · March 21st, 2012, 07:49 AM

Well, I usually forget, so it's really only once in a while, and usually motorcycle related

Jiggles · April 19th, 2012, 08:16 PM

Ninjette feels slower lately

Maybe I am sucking up all the bandwidth

Alex · April 19th, 2012, 08:28 PM

The page load speeds have been pretty constant the past month. I was hoping that the new server would be significantly faster. Turns out that it's not much faster, but it is much more consistent. It's a much rarer occurrence for the traffic to spike on someone else's site on the server, causing slow-downs for ninjette. If it does get slow for a few moments, it actually is more likely that it is due to traffic hitting our own site here.

Jiggles · April 19th, 2012, 08:33 PM

I've gotten accustomed to using those little > arrows to skip to the new posts in the thread (most awesome feature ever), but lately, like last week or so, it seems like it sometimes just hangs and takes a very long time to skip down. It seems to happen randomly and isn't consistent on any thread. I thought it was my connection for a minute but everytime I test it I get a constant 11.6Mbps so I figured it had to be ninjette... Who knows, maybe I'll just give my middle finger a workout and manually scroll alllllllll the way down

Alex · April 19th, 2012, 08:37 PM

I'm not seeing those slowdowns, and I use those same arrows to read the site as well. Are you using chrome? FF? Might be worth clearing the cache and other local files just as a check. (not highly likely, but possible)

Jiggles · April 19th, 2012, 08:40 PM

I'm using Opera

Cleared everything out, will see what happens

choneofakind · April 19th, 2012, 10:25 PM

I'm on Chrome, and notice the same thing. I've thought about clearing my cache, but honestly I've forgotten a lot of my passwords...

Alex · April 19th, 2012, 10:31 PM

K - I'll optimize the db to see if that helps. One thing to try is to turn off ads in your user control panel. Honestly the only complex graphics on the page are the ads, and they are also pulled from separate servers from the site itself.

choneofakind · April 19th, 2012, 10:32 PM

ohhhhhhhh

but I like the ads! they're fun to play the guessing game of what will pop up next!!

gfloyd2002 · April 21st, 2012, 05:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jiggles

I've gotten accustomed to using those little > arrows to skip to the new posts in the thread (most awesome feature ever) ... Who knows, maybe I'll just give my middle finger a workout and manually scroll alllllllll the way down

Even better feature is arranging the view to show new posts first: User Control Panel --> Edit Options --> Thread Display Options --> Linear Newest First. No more little arrows or middle finger workouts for you.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alex

K - I'll optimize the db to see if that helps. One thing to try is to turn off ads in your user control panel. Honestly the only complex graphics on the page are the ads, and they are also pulled from separate servers from the site itself.

Ad in the upper right for me yesterday for me was Suzuki GSXR add touting good financing. I was deeply upset and offended.

Alex · May 21st, 2012, 12:36 AM

Moved the server again last night. We are now on our own box. It has a slightly slower processor than the prior box, but that was running 4 or 5 other VPS's on it at the same time. I'm hoping and expecting that performance should be both pretty good, and pretty consistent. If things are slowing down now at times, it truly is due to ninjette.org traffic.

cuong-nutz · May 21st, 2012, 01:12 AM

Ninjette.org traffic for sure!

Jiggles · May 21st, 2012, 01:27 AM

That wasn't necessary, since I've gotten diablo 3 I've rarely come onto this site. Traffic should be down at least 70%

Alex · May 22nd, 2012, 05:19 AM

OK - it's screaming along now. I think the server is actually overkill. What was happening was at least one of the database tables was slightly corrupted, so the index wasn't working very well. It still worked, but worked much more slowly than it should have been. Now the server workload is a fraction of what it was, and the response times are great, even when I'm doing more db maintenance in the background.

Alex · May 22nd, 2012, 09:10 PM

Sorry about the up and down behavior of the site over the last day. Moved to a new box as mentioned above in this thread. Really wanted to take advantage of its capabilities, so have worked to get the db fully optimized, and now that is complete. Also have changed a number of the config files to use more of the memory and processors we now have access to, so the site should be working pretty well all around.

Please let me know if you see anything strange, and I'll take a look. Far as I can tell, all is well, but you never can be completely sure.

August 30th, 2011, 12:34 PM	#1
alex.s wat Name: wat Location: tustin/long beach Join Date: Sep 2009 Motorcycle(s): wat Posts: Too much. Blog Entries: 5 MOTM - Oct '12, Feb '14	Moved the VPS to a new server the site is like seriously 3 times faster. thanks alex! ----------------------------------------------------- EDIT by Alex (not alex.s ): I merged these threads before seeing that alex.s had actually beaten me to the punch. __________________________________________________

August 30th, 2011, 12:36 PM	#2
Alex ninjette.org dude Name: 1 guess :-) Location: SF Bay Area Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE Posts: Too much. Blog Entries: 7	Moved the VPS to a new server After the colo power failure a few weeks ago, I had to move the server to a temporary one. It was working fine, but it was a little busy, and performance wasn't as good as it could be. Also, it was an older server that was getting a little expensive for what we were receiving. This morning, I moved ninjette.org over to a new server. This required a change in IP address, so it might be a short while before everyone sees this new one, but the total downtime was only 20 minutes or so. There may be some small bugs I didn't catch yet where the IP address needs to be manually changed, so if you run into any of them, please post up in this thread or just PM me. Sorry that there was any downtime at all, but glad it wasn't too extensive. __________________________________________________ Montgomery Street Motorcycle Club / cal24.com / crf250l.org / ninjette.org ninjette.org Terms of Service Shopping for motorcycle parts or equipment? Come here first. The friendliest Ninja 250R/300/400 forum on the internet! (especially Unregistered)

August 30th, 2011, 12:38 PM	#3
Alex ninjette.org dude Name: 1 guess :-) Location: SF Bay Area Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE Posts: Too much. Blog Entries: 7	Thx, Alex! As more folks come back on, I'm not sure if you'll continue to see a 3-fold performance increase, but it should still be noticeably faster than it was before. /merged with other server move thread __________________________________________________ Montgomery Street Motorcycle Club / cal24.com / crf250l.org / ninjette.org ninjette.org Terms of Service Shopping for motorcycle parts or equipment? Come here first. The friendliest Ninja 250R/300/400 forum on the internet! (especially Unregistered)

August 30th, 2011, 02:34 PM	#4
ninja_sleeper ninjette.org guru Name: Carrie Location: Oregon Join Date: Jul 2011 Motorcycle(s): Red 2009 Kawasaki Ninja 250R Posts: 408 Blog Entries: 2	I hate when ninjette is down MAKES ME PANIC. __________________________________________________

August 31st, 2011, 05:26 AM	#6
dubojr1 ninjette.org certified postwhore Name: Jason Location: Jacksonville, Florida Join Date: May 2010 Motorcycle(s): 09 Ninja 250R SE, 07 Honda CRF230F, 06 Honda CRF150F Posts: A lot.	My Firefox tab doesn't show the green K now.... This have something to do with the change over? __________________________________________________ 09 250R SE: Paying it forward one post at a time! Don't forget to add yourself to our Member Map

August 31st, 2011, 06:40 AM	#7
Alex ninjette.org dude Name: 1 guess :-) Location: SF Bay Area Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE Posts: Too much. Blog Entries: 7	It shouldn't, the favicon is still showing up for me fine on chrome and firefox. You can try clearing your cache? __________________________________________________ Montgomery Street Motorcycle Club / cal24.com / crf250l.org / ninjette.org ninjette.org Terms of Service Shopping for motorcycle parts or equipment? Come here first. The friendliest Ninja 250R/300/400 forum on the internet! (especially Unregistered)

March 20th, 2012, 11:12 AM	#9
Alex ninjette.org dude Name: 1 guess :-) Location: SF Bay Area Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE Posts: Too much. Blog Entries: 7	OK - moved it again this morning. We were on a standard "shared" VPS up until today. Rimuhosting offers something they called "semi-dedicated" VPS, where instead of sharing the host with a few dozen VM's, this host is limited to 5 or 6. The physical hardware itself is not much faster (or slower), but there are just less people using it, so the response time should be more consistent. It is three times as expensive as what we were paying, but I do want to see if it makes a difference. If it doesn't, we can always go back just as easily. At some point we might need our own dedicated server, but the cost would be doubled yet again. The advantage of our own server would be access to a ton of cheap disk space. On the VPS's, the disk space is somewhat limited, but to be honest this site doesn't use nearly as much disk as I would have expected. (Most folks tend to host their pictures on another site and just link them here, if they were all stored here the storage needs would increase). __________________________________________________ Montgomery Street Motorcycle Club / cal24.com / crf250l.org / ninjette.org ninjette.org Terms of Service Shopping for motorcycle parts or equipment? Come here first. The friendliest Ninja 250R/300/400 forum on the internet! (especially Unregistered)

March 20th, 2012, 02:37 PM	#10
Alex ninjette.org dude Name: 1 guess :-) Location: SF Bay Area Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE Posts: Too much. Blog Entries: 7	Sorry about the downtime. Was optimizing a database table, it crashed, and I was on to other things so didn't see it for awhile. But the good news is that all of the tables are now completely optimized, and at least from what I'm seeing, the site is now as fast as it's ever been. There are 150+ users online, but searches, opening up new threads in new tabs, and anything else I'm trying has .1 to .2 second response time. I think that the corruption in the "post" table may have been part of the reason for things to be slowing down before, but it's always hard to track root causes of things like this. __________________________________________________ Montgomery Street Motorcycle Club / cal24.com / crf250l.org / ninjette.org ninjette.org Terms of Service Shopping for motorcycle parts or equipment? Come here first. The friendliest Ninja 250R/300/400 forum on the internet! (especially Unregistered)

March 20th, 2012, 02:43 PM	#11
nickjpass #squid Name: nickypoo Location: Five Guys Join Date: Jul 2011 Motorcycle(s): Track dedicated 2008 ZX6R Posts: A lot. MOTM - Jul '16	Really quick alex. Good job __________________________________________________

March 20th, 2012, 06:05 PM	#14
gfloyd2002 User Title Free Since '12 Name: Floyd Location: Barbados Join Date: Dec 2010 Motorcycle(s): '10 Ninja 250R Special Edition Green Posts: A lot. Blog Entries: 13 MOTM - Feb '12	Just so we know how much to appreciate you . . . how much does this site cost you and how much do you make on advertising? Is there a noticeable difference to you if we click "yes" in your User CP/Options in the "View motorcycle-related advertising" option? If so, I'm happy to encourage it here and elsewhere. If the answer is that you aren't out of pocket (which I doubt), I'm happy and no further details needed. But if you are out of pocket, I wouldn't mind doing a bit of fundraising to see what we can do as a community to better support the site. __________________________________________________ "Improvement makes straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement, are roads of genius." — William Blake

March 20th, 2012, 06:58 PM	#16
choneofakind ninjette.org certified postwhore Name: . Location: . Join Date: Feb 2011 Motorcycle(s): . Posts: Too much. MOTM - Feb '13, Feb '14	I've started clicking on the ads once in a while in hopes that you make a little more. I want a shirt too.

March 20th, 2012, 08:02 PM	#18
etiainen CBR250R Traitor Name: Jon Location: Greater Philadelphia Area Join Date: Jun 2011 Motorcycle(s): 2011 Red CBR250R 2009 Ninja 250r SE(With 2008 Fairings)(sold) Posts: 924	Safari got angry, and I was still getting emails but couldn't access. Killed Safari and restarted, came back up fine. Yay faster site.

March 20th, 2012, 08:29 PM	#19
nickjpass #squid Name: nickypoo Location: Five Guys Join Date: Jul 2011 Motorcycle(s): Track dedicated 2008 ZX6R Posts: A lot. MOTM - Jul '16	Can you believe some forums charge a membership!??!?! __________________________________________________

March 21st, 2012, 12:41 AM	#20
MikeBudd ninjette.org guru Name: Mike Location: Vancouver, British Columbia Join Date: Aug 2011 Motorcycle(s): RED 2010 Ninja 250r Posts: 304	Faster ninjette.org = faster ninjette. My top speed increased by at least 2 mph simply because of this.

March 21st, 2012, 07:49 AM	#22
choneofakind ninjette.org certified postwhore Name: . Location: . Join Date: Feb 2011 Motorcycle(s): . Posts: Too much. MOTM - Feb '13, Feb '14	Well, I usually forget, so it's really only once in a while, and usually motorcycle related

April 19th, 2012, 08:16 PM	#23
Jiggles Jigglin' your Jiglets Name: Sean Location: San Jose, Ca Join Date: Jun 2011 Motorcycle(s): 2009 K1300S, 2013 Ninja 300, 2011 Ninja 250R, Faster than Unregistered's ninjette Posts: Too much. Blog Entries: 1 MOTM - Apr '13	Ninjette feels slower lately Maybe I am sucking up all the bandwidth __________________________________________________ If the Ninja 250 doesn't have enough power for you, then you don't know how to ride it. AFM #676 Supersports are for n00bs

April 19th, 2012, 08:28 PM	#24
Alex ninjette.org dude Name: 1 guess :-) Location: SF Bay Area Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE Posts: Too much. Blog Entries: 7	The page load speeds have been pretty constant the past month. I was hoping that the new server would be significantly faster. Turns out that it's not much faster, but it is much more consistent. It's a much rarer occurrence for the traffic to spike on someone else's site on the server, causing slow-downs for ninjette. If it does get slow for a few moments, it actually is more likely that it is due to traffic hitting our own site here. __________________________________________________ Montgomery Street Motorcycle Club / cal24.com / crf250l.org / ninjette.org ninjette.org Terms of Service Shopping for motorcycle parts or equipment? Come here first. The friendliest Ninja 250R/300/400 forum on the internet! (especially Unregistered)

April 19th, 2012, 08:33 PM	#25
Jiggles Jigglin' your Jiglets Name: Sean Location: San Jose, Ca Join Date: Jun 2011 Motorcycle(s): 2009 K1300S, 2013 Ninja 300, 2011 Ninja 250R, Faster than Unregistered's ninjette Posts: Too much. Blog Entries: 1 MOTM - Apr '13	I've gotten accustomed to using those little > arrows to skip to the new posts in the thread (most awesome feature ever), but lately, like last week or so, it seems like it sometimes just hangs and takes a very long time to skip down. It seems to happen randomly and isn't consistent on any thread. I thought it was my connection for a minute but everytime I test it I get a constant 11.6Mbps so I figured it had to be ninjette... Who knows, maybe I'll just give my middle finger a workout and manually scroll alllllllll the way down __________________________________________________ If the Ninja 250 doesn't have enough power for you, then you don't know how to ride it. AFM #676 Supersports are for n00bs

April 19th, 2012, 08:37 PM	#26
Alex ninjette.org dude Name: 1 guess :-) Location: SF Bay Area Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE Posts: Too much. Blog Entries: 7	I'm not seeing those slowdowns, and I use those same arrows to read the site as well. Are you using chrome? FF? Might be worth clearing the cache and other local files just as a check. (not highly likely, but possible) __________________________________________________ Montgomery Street Motorcycle Club / cal24.com / crf250l.org / ninjette.org ninjette.org Terms of Service Shopping for motorcycle parts or equipment? Come here first. The friendliest Ninja 250R/300/400 forum on the internet! (especially Unregistered)

April 19th, 2012, 08:40 PM	#27
Jiggles Jigglin' your Jiglets Name: Sean Location: San Jose, Ca Join Date: Jun 2011 Motorcycle(s): 2009 K1300S, 2013 Ninja 300, 2011 Ninja 250R, Faster than Unregistered's ninjette Posts: Too much. Blog Entries: 1 MOTM - Apr '13	I'm using Opera Cleared everything out, will see what happens __________________________________________________ If the Ninja 250 doesn't have enough power for you, then you don't know how to ride it. AFM #676 Supersports are for n00bs

April 19th, 2012, 10:25 PM	#28
choneofakind ninjette.org certified postwhore Name: . Location: . Join Date: Feb 2011 Motorcycle(s): . Posts: Too much. MOTM - Feb '13, Feb '14	I'm on Chrome, and notice the same thing. I've thought about clearing my cache, but honestly I've forgotten a lot of my passwords...

April 19th, 2012, 10:31 PM	#29
Alex ninjette.org dude Name: 1 guess :-) Location: SF Bay Area Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE Posts: Too much. Blog Entries: 7	K - I'll optimize the db to see if that helps. One thing to try is to turn off ads in your user control panel. Honestly the only complex graphics on the page are the ads, and they are also pulled from separate servers from the site itself. __________________________________________________ Montgomery Street Motorcycle Club / cal24.com / crf250l.org / ninjette.org ninjette.org Terms of Service Shopping for motorcycle parts or equipment? Come here first. The friendliest Ninja 250R/300/400 forum on the internet! (especially Unregistered)

April 19th, 2012, 10:32 PM	#30
choneofakind ninjette.org certified postwhore Name: . Location: . Join Date: Feb 2011 Motorcycle(s): . Posts: Too much. MOTM - Feb '13, Feb '14	ohhhhhhhh but I like the ads! they're fun to play the guessing game of what will pop up next!!

May 21st, 2012, 12:36 AM	#32
Alex ninjette.org dude Name: 1 guess :-) Location: SF Bay Area Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE Posts: Too much. Blog Entries: 7	Moved the server again last night. We are now on our own box. It has a slightly slower processor than the prior box, but that was running 4 or 5 other VPS's on it at the same time. I'm hoping and expecting that performance should be both pretty good, and pretty consistent. If things are slowing down now at times, it truly is due to ninjette.org traffic. __________________________________________________ Montgomery Street Motorcycle Club / cal24.com / crf250l.org / ninjette.org ninjette.org Terms of Service Shopping for motorcycle parts or equipment? Come here first. The friendliest Ninja 250R/300/400 forum on the internet! (especially Unregistered)

May 21st, 2012, 01:12 AM	#33
cuong-nutz RIP Alex Name: Cuong Location: Houston, TX Join Date: Apr 2011 Motorcycle(s): '10 250r, '09 265r Posts: A lot. Blog Entries: 2	Ninjette.org traffic for sure! __________________________________________________ HalfFast Racing Team Serving Greater Houston Area Riders:WFO Riders MotoHouston HPC CMRA Ride Smart Fastline Lone Star Track Days

May 21st, 2012, 01:27 AM	#34
Jiggles Jigglin' your Jiglets Name: Sean Location: San Jose, Ca Join Date: Jun 2011 Motorcycle(s): 2009 K1300S, 2013 Ninja 300, 2011 Ninja 250R, Faster than Unregistered's ninjette Posts: Too much. Blog Entries: 1 MOTM - Apr '13	That wasn't necessary, since I've gotten diablo 3 I've rarely come onto this site. Traffic should be down at least 70% __________________________________________________ If the Ninja 250 doesn't have enough power for you, then you don't know how to ride it. AFM #676 Supersports are for n00bs

May 22nd, 2012, 05:19 AM	#35
Alex ninjette.org dude Name: 1 guess :-) Location: SF Bay Area Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE Posts: Too much. Blog Entries: 7	OK - it's screaming along now. I think the server is actually overkill. What was happening was at least one of the database tables was slightly corrupted, so the index wasn't working very well. It still worked, but worked much more slowly than it should have been. Now the server workload is a fraction of what it was, and the response times are great, even when I'm doing more db maintenance in the background. __________________________________________________ Montgomery Street Motorcycle Club / cal24.com / crf250l.org / ninjette.org ninjette.org Terms of Service Shopping for motorcycle parts or equipment? Come here first. The friendliest Ninja 250R/300/400 forum on the internet! (especially Unregistered)

May 22nd, 2012, 09:10 PM	#36
Alex ninjette.org dude Name: 1 guess :-) Location: SF Bay Area Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE Posts: Too much. Blog Entries: 7	Sorry about the up and down behavior of the site over the last day. Moved to a new box as mentioned above in this thread. Really wanted to take advantage of its capabilities, so have worked to get the db fully optimized, and now that is complete. Also have changed a number of the config files to use more of the memory and processors we now have access to, so the site should be working pretty well all around. Please let me know if you see anything strange, and I'll take a look. Far as I can tell, all is well, but you never can be completely sure. __________________________________________________ Montgomery Street Motorcycle Club / cal24.com / crf250l.org / ninjette.org ninjette.org Terms of Service Shopping for motorcycle parts or equipment? Come here first. The friendliest Ninja 250R/300/400 forum on the internet! (especially Unregistered)

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