The switch to our new Virtual Private Server has just happened, and I can’t believe the difference! Everything just happens so quick and brisk; why did I wait so long to do this? If a Mark VIII can be made to go 200 mph, so can old Curbside Classic. Yippie!
Update: The site suddenly crashed to a total halt. Why? It turns out that our space on the virtual private server they sold us wasn’t big enough for all of our files! Maybe they could have checked that before they moved us??
The site is back up, but not as crisp as before, and this issue is far from resolved. The real problem is that CC is a memory hog, because of all of the large pictures, and how many we keep adding all the time. We’re going to have to take a good hard look at how we operate before we keep plunging ahead, long term.
Update II: After removing backup files, the site seems to be running well. But there’s not enough room on the VPS for our future expansion, so we’ll have to consider something with more memory
The difference is like going from a 400 2v to a Duratec 35 Cyclone.
I did get one can’t connect to database error today which is still much better than it had been recently.
I’m really digging that salt flats prepped VIII
Since 3PM? Not likely.
No it was earlier than that.
That thing is almost evil looking. The site loaded up much faster, I thought it was my phone trying to hint that it was time for a new one.
Wow, much faster. CC TURBO!
This is almost as fast as my V6 Vega!
Now it’s as fast as my Vega with the original “two quarts of oil per week” engine!
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Funny. Pages still seem to take 30 – 45 seconds to load here. Don’t notice a whole bunch of difference.
Check the updated content of this post…things crashed, and now are limping along.
I do appreciate the added speed and reliability that the new server will provide but, even if I went back to dial-up CC would be worth the wait.
+10, Mark!
For me, CC is approaching basic life necessity status. Food, clothing, shelter and CC!
I’m just glad to see you’re back up and running! This is required reading for me, everyday!
Faster, faster…then a crash.
Familiar story…one more reason I sold my BMW boxer GS. At least with the 650, it’s easier to keep it under a hundred.
(Nice afternoon, ran some errands on the bike – can ya tell?)
I love the faster the loading of the pages. That said, it did crash on me a few hours earlier. All part of a system migration.
The site is going fine at pres here even the cohort is working well so whatever you did it works.
So…what would it cost per month to get this thing running well? As much as I detest Paypal, I feel that I should contribute in a more meaningful way. Thanks.
Why not buy a 2 Terrabyte (TB) File Server exclusively for CC and pay for it with ad revenue gathered over the next few months (or years, if there is any).
Installed at your house, so that you can mind it?
Really Paul?! You think a 2TB file server is THAT big?! My familiy’s current file server (2-4 TB w/ dual backup hard disk drives (HDD)) is smaller than a shoebox, as the picture below will show (FYI: The file server is the black and grey box under the blue shoebox):
Did you misinterpret my comment? I didn’t say anything about its size. Are you up to minding it?
Minding it as in paying for it or tending to it?
No complaints with loading speeds this morning here in NW Georgia. Fine content is worth the wait.
Please excuse my ignorance, but what is and the meaning of the black-purple smudge on a grey-white background at the lead in photo?
It’s a Chevy HHR at Bonneville encountering some difficulty maintaining stability at very high speed.
I’m still wrapping my head around someone running a HHR at Bonneville. Perhaps they came back next year with a Pontiac G5 coupe?
You could start uploading your photos to a service such as Amazon S3 (simple storage service) instead of the VPS. S3 offers uncapped amounts of disk space and transfer for dirt cheap and that would take a good deal of the serving load off of your VPS. If you need help or anything you can drop me an email.
We considered that, but it adds a significant amount of complexity to putting an article together (some of our writers are not “techies”), and also introduces another possible failure point.
I keep telling Paul he needs to “Get a Mac,” but he ain’t having any of it!
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The idea of having two different sources intrinsically scares me, not to mention that creating the posts would undoubtedly be complex. Some of our writers are even less techie than me…:)
I could see the possibility of having the large versions of the images on a different source, so that if folks wanted to click them on, it would come from that. But it would still make creating posts more complex.
I’m more inclined to shop around for a dedicated server that’s plenty big enough for us; prices are not that onerous, and probably falling.
At the end of the day, our issues are quite solvable with a bigger hosting plan. Those cost more, of course, so it’s a matter of finding the right balance that leaves some change in Paul’s pocket after paying the hosting bills…