Website Maintenance [UPDATE]

Post by **BurnIt!** » Wed, 11. May 05, 15:03

[UPDATE]

Maintenance work has been completed.

Today we added an additional server to support the already existing one with our website and forums. Not only will that extra machine serve as a backup solution, it will also help to balance the load during busy times. This way we can cope with a significantly higher number of visitors resulting in a more stable web experience for everybody.

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We are currently performing maintenace work on our webserver. During this time occasional downtimes are to be expected.
As of this time we expect the work to be completed today at around 8PM (GMT+2).

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Rapier · Post by **Rapier** » Wed, 11. May 05, 18:51

My Mum always said

My Mum wrote:If you were sorry, you wouldn't have done it.

Post by **BurnIt!** » Wed, 11. May 05, 21:21

Ahh you got me

Ok, we are not sorry - we're actually quite happy we're doing what we're doing

Post by **Xenon_Slayer** » Wed, 11. May 05, 21:37

Anything specific or just a spring clean. New features?

Tsar_of_Cows · Post by **Tsar_of_Cows** » Wed, 11. May 05, 23:15

I take it that the "Ran into problems sending Mail. Response: 550 relay not permitted," is part of that?

Oh well, I'm not that bothered...

*throws another dart at BurnIt!'s avatar on wall*
Whhahahahahahahhaaa!

Post by **BurnIt!** » Wed, 11. May 05, 23:20

It is part of that - however it's supposed to be fixed already...

*checks again*

Merroc · Post by **Merroc** » Wed, 11. May 05, 23:30

Tsar_of_Cows wrote:*throws another dart at BurnIt!'s avatar on wall*

You did miss didnt you? (else, what part have you hit?

)

Post by **BurnIt!** » Wed, 11. May 05, 23:34

It's done

Hope everything works well.

If you see that "ran into problems sending mail" message again - no need to worry, your post is fine. The message should go away in a few days at max - just takes some time until the new address of the second server is known around the net.

Tsar_of_Cows · Post by **Tsar_of_Cows** » Wed, 11. May 05, 23:44

*removes darts from BurnIt!'s Avatar*

EDIT:

*chucks darts again*

The error is still happening when posting :/

esd · Post by **esd** » Thu, 12. May 05, 00:08

The message should go away in a few days at max - just takes some time until the new address of the second server is known around the net.

Give it a chance, Tzar... DNS propogation can take ages!

soimafreak · Post by **soimafreak** » Thu, 12. May 05, 00:30

it can take 48 hours

although personaly mines always instent

how does it split the load between servers ?:(

MrFrog · Post by **MrFrog** » Thu, 12. May 05, 00:35

soimafreak wrote:it can take 48 hours although personaly mines always instent

how does it split the load between servers ?:(

Load balancing - very nifty - and inbuilt on the latest M$ Server editions. If I ever get my head around it I'll be a rich man with an mushy brain...

Tsar_of_Cows · Post by **Tsar_of_Cows** » Thu, 12. May 05, 00:38

MrFrog wrote:
soimafreak wrote:it can take 48 hours although personaly mines always instent

how does it split the load between servers ?:(
Load balancing - very nifty - and inbuilt on the latest M$ Server editions. If I ever get my head around it I'll be a rich man with an mushy brain...

It must be in the transmission of bytes to users... the Servers might be alternating which of them send you which bits, or they might each pick up half the users...

soimafreak · Post by **soimafreak** » Thu, 12. May 05, 02:06

just wonde ring if it was done at the webserver software or at the router

sounds cool either way

Post by **Xenon_Slayer** » Thu, 12. May 05, 10:50

Tsar_of_Cows wrote:I take it that the "Ran into problems sending Mail. Response: 550 relay not permitted," is part of that?

I just got that aswell. BurnIt! What did you do.

Lutzie · Post by **Lutzie** » Thu, 12. May 05, 10:51

Tsar_of_Cows wrote:I take it that the "Ran into problems sending Mail. Response: 550 relay not permitted," is part of that?

I'm getting it on every post.

pccenter · Post by **pccenter** » Thu, 12. May 05, 11:50

Lutzie wrote:
Tsar_of_Cows wrote:I take it that the "Ran into problems sending Mail. Response: 550 relay not permitted," is part of that?
I'm getting it on every post.

only if you check the "Notify me when a reply is posted"

Lutzie · Post by **Lutzie** » Thu, 12. May 05, 12:13

pccenter wrote:only if you check the "Notify me when a reply is posted"

I've never ever checked that, and I'm still getting it, although it's a bit random now.

Post by **CBJ** » Thu, 12. May 05, 12:16

You get the error if there is a problem and anyone has asked for emails to be sent for the thread you are posting in. It doesn't mean your message hasn't been posted, and as mentioned above it will hopefully be solved soon.

Post by **BurnIt!** » Thu, 12. May 05, 20:25

It should now definetely be solved - of course our mailserver needs to accept data sent from the new server (different IP) - and it does that now.

We're not using the highly "advanced" load balancing mechanisms though as our experience showed that the database and webserver almost always shared ~50% of the CPU time we simply have the database on one server, and the webserver on the other one - really simple, but effective nevertheless.

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Website Maintenance [UPDATE]

Website Maintenance [UPDATE]