Forum on New Server

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And we've moved!

To new server. It'll take a little while for the DNS to update for everyone but shouldn't be long.

Report any issues here

[Cloudane]

Wheeee! It's now at least 20% faster!

Nice cow btw

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The clock is right! No longer is YY a glimpse a half hour into the future.

[Little stoned kiwi]

You'll just have to ask me for a glimpse then.

The issue I mentioned earlier in the other thread has gone away! Ace.

[PVB]

Wheeee! It's now at least 20% faster!

Nice cow btw

Yup.

[Barney]

Can we have a favicon now? Chrome just uses the WOS one in my bookmarks list.

D.

[Istar]

Out of curiosity (as I'm the EC2 guru/manager at work) what sort of instance are we running on?

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Oh cool, some sort of sanity check would be nice. I just read the web site and selected some stuff.

YY is on m1.small server based in Ireland and I got 10gb of storage as well. Does that sound about right?

[Istar]

Yep, an m1.Small will handle this place unless we suddenly get 250 users on, all posting simultaneously. Arguably you could boost to an m1.Medium at that point, as memory would likely be the bottleneck. Or set up an ELB and spin-up more m1.Smalls on demand behind it. Probably not something to worry about unless the current instance starts running at 100% CPU for extended periods.

The instance will have some ephemeral storage associated with it - I can't remember what the default spin-up sizes are as my estate all runs off custom-sized EBS volumes that replace the image storage as soon as it starts. The trick to remember about ephemeral storage is that if you terminate the instance (or Amazon do, as can happen if the hardware node fails) you lose it. I doubt I need to remind you to take regular snapshots.

Shout if you want to bounce any questions off me.

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The storage I have is 10gb in EBS, that's persistent isn't it? I thought it was Just took a snapshot in case it's not

As for scaling I was thinking of having a much around with using nginx to serve the site; it looks like it's much lighter on RAM and processor load than Apache

[KlaxonCow]

The email notifications don't appear to be coming through.

I'm seeing threads on Bleatings that I know I'm subscribed to with new posts, but I'm not getting email notifications for them. I checked the forum settings to be sure and notifications are switched on. It's not erroneous junk mail filtering on my end, as I've checked that. The timing entirely coincides with the server move (so I'm presuming it's probably related).

(If it's just that you haven't got around to setting it up properly yet, that's fine. No rush. Really, I'm just checking that it's not one of those stupid over-zealous ISP blacklisting things. If it's not your end nor my end, then we can begin to suspect someone else might be being stupid with their traffic management en route instead.)

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Yeah that's just not on any more and I'll have to work out a solution. Going to take a little while tho.

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Test!

[matt303]

Test!

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Cheers!

Quick fix doesn't work Oh well