New Server - Issues and Reports

[harshness]

This would be easier if the power didn't keep going out.

Weather or rolling blackouts?

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Weather, we are having flash flood warnings... saw Noah in a boat go by...

The latest version of ElasticSearch is installed now. Now building the search index. It's using half the memory it was before.

Once the search index is done then I can work on optimizing the PHP / Apache server.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

OkI have optimized PHP snd Apache. Still need to do MySQL, maybe later. But now time for me to go make dinner. My turn to cook tonight. NO grilling today the rain is still coming down.

 

[navychop]

OkI have optimized PHP snd Apache. Still need to do MySQL, maybe later. But now time for me to go make dinner. My turn to cook tonight. NO grilling today the rain is still coming down.

You need a ceramic Kamado style smoker. Weather makes little difference.

But then, you’d have had to start supper already. Like, yesterday for pulled pork. Even too late for ribs.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

I am not working on the MySQL stuff. . Again if there are any errors or slowdowns please ignore as I am on it.

 

[Bobby]

An hour to cook and eat dinner and back to it. You are a masochist, Scott, and we love you for it. Your dedication does not go unnoticed! Thanks for all you do.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Ok set and tested a bunch of settings, and adjusted all I can for now in the MySQL settings, now have to wait 24 hours and run the mysql checker / optimizer again to see what it suggests based on 24 hours data.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Well other then the suggestions I may get from the mySql Optimizer tomorrow, I think this server is running really well.

Hows the speed for you now? Not sure it can go much faster. . (Note the fireworks are slowing down the page loads slightly, I saw that in the GTmetrix report, but those go away in a few hours.

 

[Gary Toma]

From San Diego, the site appears faster than it has ever been. The next big metric is “reliably accessible more than it has ever been!”. So far — So good !!

 

[charlesrshell]

Running fast for me.

 

[Bobby]

Looking good Scott.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Very happy with things. I think this is our highest ratings ever.

Been working on revamping our email system, and now bouncing emails from our server will no unsubscribe a user from gettiing additional emails when they are subscribed to a topic, instead of just bouncing back to our server and sitting in a mailbox. This change already saved us 2 gig of space on the hard drive.

In addition we are now also using all the latest email security protocols, including DKIM so we are not spamming the world and are secure when sending emails.

About the only thing I am not happy with now is our backup. With the new host we have rented server space to backup to which is offsite. And while it is enabled, I have not received notice that the backups were transfered to the external server. In addition I can not check their server to see if it uploaded as you can not access their server from the public internet.

I did notice they are offering S3 object storage which our backup software is comatible with, and its cheaper than the FTP backup storage server I am paying them for now... and offers more space.

SO I guess I will start working on that soon.

And best of all other than me restarting services when I was updating things and optimizing... we have had ZERO down time. Thats a big improvment! (knock on wood!)

June was an expensive month for us as we paid for 3 servers, but thanks to our Pub Members / Supporters we were able to pay for them all.

 

[dweber]

Thank you for all your work. We appreciate all the time and effort that you put into the site.


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[Gary Toma]

We now have a much better site; that is wonderful. However, it cost you the 4’th Holiday. Something is not fair…

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

We now have a much better site; that is wonderful. However, it cost you the 4’th Holiday. Something is not fair…

If you saw the rain we had, you would agree it was time well spent.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

I have been doing some testing of the server with various server tests.

And we are looking great.

Here are some that cache the results so I can post them so you can see the results.

https://www.ssltrust.com/ssl-tools/website-security-check?domain=satelliteguys.us

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=satelliteguys.us

 

[raoul5788]

If you saw the rain we had, you would agree it was time well spent.

We are MAYBE 20 miles apart and didn't get nearly the rain you did.

 

[navychop]

I’m in Fairfax Va. just a few miles away, they got well over 1.5” of rain PER HOUR!

I had to run sprinklers today.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

We are MAYBE 20 miles apart and didn't get nearly the rain you did.

We had over two inches of rain here.

I know Bristol hardly got any.

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[TheKrell]

I’m in Fairfax Va. just a few miles away, they got well over 1.5” of rain PER HOUR!

I have an automatic rain gauge. Yesterday, the 24-hr display showed 1.91". This morning it still shows 1.86".

I had to run sprinklers today.

Me too! Argh.