Website acting up?

Really bad for sales threads I imagine. Maybe better not to have any auctions until this is resolved.
 
Really getting a bit frustrating, tried couple times earlier today to get on (once in the morning, once after lunch), but to no avail.
Hoping this will get resolved soon.
 
One positive- Anybody else have an incredibly more productive weekend than usual? :)
 
Ok, thought it was just me, last couple weeks experience the sames things as mentioned before. Errors to load and extremely slow loading if things do load. Then things will run fine for a little bit, and then back to error messages.

I'm suffering at work now because I can access the forum =(
 
Don't know if it anything to do with the problem, but something to note: It showed the amount of most users online was 209? on 13/02/2015 - after I refreshed I saw this it updated to todays date (267 users) before my very eyes lol

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That's an artefact of the web server being restarted, and logged in people being counted twice as they refresh.

As far as I can track the problem it is database memory related - which most likely means a server upgrade. We've been chugging along on 1GB RAM for a couple of years, but the database is just growing too big for that to be enough.

As a number of people have noticed, private messages are SLOW - this is the biggest single use of resources in the database - 700,000+ messages - and growing the fastest. I may need to do a trim of anything more than 12 months old to get it back to a manageable volume.
 
GP... It is 3.34am here in Qld...Hardly anyone visiting the site....Oh so slow.

Getting to the stage where it is no longer a pleasure to be on SS. TOO MUCH HASSLE.

hOPE THAT YOU CAN GET THE SITE BACK TO NORMAL SOON.

Regards Errol 43
 
goldpelican said:
That's an artefact of the web server being restarted, and logged in people being counted twice as they refresh.

As far as I can track the problem it is database memory related - which most likely means a server upgrade. We've been chugging along on 1GB RAM for a couple of years, but the database is just growing too big for that to be enough.

As a number of people have noticed, private messages are SLOW - this is the biggest single use of resources in the database - 700,000+ messages - and growing the fastest. I may need to do a trim of anything more than 12 months old to get it back to a manageable volume.
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1GB RAM? To get anything that small would suggest a shared host starter-plan from a hosting reseller. You're doing well to have kept the site going on such an instance size. I'm guessing support is the biggest cost.
 
I trimmed my messages down to 24%. Have three pages of convos with Maggie. Just couldn't bring myself to delete them. :/ Figured if you need to purge old PM's GP then you will.
 
SilverPete said:
goldpelican said:
That's an artefact of the web server being restarted, and logged in people being counted twice as they refresh.

As far as I can track the problem it is database memory related - which most likely means a server upgrade. We've been chugging along on 1GB RAM for a couple of years, but the database is just growing too big for that to be enough.

As a number of people have noticed, private messages are SLOW - this is the biggest single use of resources in the database - 700,000+ messages - and growing the fastest. I may need to do a trim of anything more than 12 months old to get it back to a manageable volume.
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1GB RAM? To get anything that small would suggest a shared host starter-plan from a hosting reseller. You're doing well to have kept the site going on such an instance size. I'm guessing support is the biggest cost.
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Not at all - it is a virtual machine, dedicated 1GB RAM, on ESX platform. I know my way around Linux and VMWare environments. We outgrew shared hosting years ago. My background is architecture in this space for 15 years before I entered the bullion game. Disk read used to the be the biggest bottleneck which is why we use Amazon Cloudfront for various script and image caching.

"Shared" hosting is usually 200 accounts crammed into an 8GB machine or similar all competing for resources.
 
Is user message export a possibility? FWIW,I deleted most of mine a few days ago.
 
errol43 said:
GP... It is 3.34am here in Qld...Hardly anyone visiting the site....Oh so slow.

Getting to the stage where it is no longer a pleasure to be on SS. TOO MUCH HASSLE.

hOPE THAT YOU CAN GET THE SITE BACK TO NORMAL SOON.

Regards Errol 43
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100%

CGS :)
 
cashgoldsilver said:
errol43 said:
GP... It is 3.34am here in Qld...Hardly anyone visiting the site....Oh so slow.

Getting to the stage where it is no longer a pleasure to be on SS. TOO MUCH HASSLE.

hOPE THAT YOU CAN GET THE SITE BACK TO NORMAL SOON.

Regards Errol 43
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100%

CGS :)
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Less browsing, more silver shopping!
 
smk762 said:
Is user message export a possibility? FWIW,I deleted most of mine a few days ago.
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I wonder if it is reasonable to purge all message boxes of users who have been inactive for a couple of years?
 
Looks like it's working much better this morning compared to the last couple of days, not sure if everyone is experiencing the same
 
Kam said:
Looks like it's working much better this morning compared to the last couple of days, not sure if everyone is experiencing the same
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I was thinking the same, but then I get an error message hahaha - Maybe ya jinxed it lol :P
 
Greg Williams said:
Kam said:
Looks like it's working much better this morning compared to the last couple of days, not sure if everyone is experiencing the same
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I was thinking the same, but then I get an error message hahaha - Maybe ya jinxed it lol :P
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I am still having trouble with messages.
 
Greg Williams said:
Kam said:
Looks like it's working much better this morning compared to the last couple of days, not sure if everyone is experiencing the same
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I was thinking the same, but then I get an error message hahaha - Maybe ya jinxed it lol :P
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Hahaha should've kept my mouth shut :lol:
 
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