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Ok who broke sterns website...

Maybe they are getting ready for the release of the latest GB code.... It's only been 18 months since promised ....

Nahh... Just looks like either their server is broked, or maintenance work....
 
Paul said:
Maybe they are getting ready for the release of the latest GB code.... It's only been 18 months since promised ....

Nahh... Just looks like either their server is broked, or maintenance work....
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My guess is they need to reboot the server and check temp disks. run out of memory or disk full!!
 
Paul said:
it is up/down every few mins, so would concur... however when it comes up it's still not happy :D
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Some poor tech guy is trying to get it back and going then!! Oh the memories of getting that call... 'can you come in, I know its a Sunday, but somethings broke...'
 
myPinballs said:
Some poor tech guy is trying to get it back and going then!! Oh the memories of getting that call... 'can you come in, I know its a Sunday, but somethings broke...'
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To me it looked like it was either out of disk, out of memory or out of sockets.

Neil


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Maybe the website company sold them the website but said it won't be fully complete for a few years. Got 101 code updates to do ?
 
You need to get your web monkey to optimise all the images on your site and enable gzip compression Phil.
 
Arv said:
You need to get your web monkey to optimise all the images on your site and enable gzip compression Phil.
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Gzip compression isn't a silver bullet, you just trade storage for CPU usage on the server. For a highly dynamic or active site such as a forum like this gzip compression is unlikely to give any real advantages.
 
Mercifull said:
Gzip compression isn't a silver bullet, you just trade storage for CPU usage on the server. For a highly dynamic or active site such as a forum like this gzip compression is unlikely to give any real advantages.
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Not talking about this forum, I was on about Phil's site. I'd rather have a server send out a 10k file than 100k and save on bandwidth and have the page load quicker.
 
Mercifull said:
Gzip compression isn't a silver bullet, you just trade storage for CPU usage on the server. For a highly dynamic or active site such as a forum like this gzip compression is unlikely to give any real advantages.
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Huh? The server doesn't decompress the files. The client does. Modern sites that aren't using gzip... aren't modern sites :)
 
For media-rich sites, serving the images and other non-dynamic content from a different host is great for page load times.

static.pinball.co.uk

for example..

You dev will know what I mean.

Tim
 
strobey said:
For media-rich sites, serving the images and other non-dynamic content from a different host is great for page load times.

static.pinball.co.uk
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This adds a lot of complexity (and often cost) for a third party hosted site though.

Usually it is a lot simpler/cheaper to upgrade the hosting package to a faster option (more RAM/CPU) or a dedicated machine or up the bandwidth allocation to get increased speed as it doesn't require lots of site changes.
 
Arv said:
Too many connections no doubt, ropey iis server probably ran out of ephemeral ports. Apache all the way..
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nginx or go right on home, lads.

Damn, this pinball forum was the last place I'd expect to be feeling the flames of that holy war stirring within me.
 
sternpinball.com works fine its just the www that breaks, maybe they are re-homing; and don't always assume MS can deliver with just more money (!).

Neil.
 
Neil McRae said:
sternpinball.com works fine its just the www that breaks, maybe they are re-homing; and don't always assume MS can deliver with just more money (!).

Neil.
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They both resolve to the same ip address, they probably just re-deployed their webapp on Azure out of hours for them which happens to be in hours for us.
 
cyberkryten said:
Well, at least when using Azure fixing capacity/bandwidth is easy, you just give MS more $$$
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Neil McRae said:
sternpinball.com works fine its just the www that breaks, maybe they are re-homing; and don't always assume MS can deliver with just more money (!).

Neil.
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Azure can deliver, BUT it's not a case of just chucking money at it - its a case of planning the deployment properly, and when you start looking at all the aspects of the deployment and espsically your HA it can get expensive fast on Azure

Auto-scaling WebApps are one of the most no-brainer use cases for cloud compute, but I've seen people attempt to deploy things in Azure it and not consider the HA/Georedundancy aspects because it's 'on the cloud' (and that 99.9% SLA that Microsoft offer is only backed if you have VMs in different fault domains)
 
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