TPU Site issues 2016/17

[alucasa]

Forum software has always had this sort of issues when a forum gets too big.

History lesson, from a perv ~

When UBB came along, it was written in perl and plain text file as database. Imagine the inefficiency as well as insecurity. But that was back in 1995 or something.

Then Vbulletin came along, written in PHP and mySQL. VB was what TPU was based on for many years. VB company got sold to a bunch of investors and they ruined the software.

Core of VB team created Xenforo and had lawsuits with IB, Internet Brands, (VB parent company). But it's still in PHP and mySQL (or mySQLi nowadays).

 

[W1zzard]

Hey W1z, waddya do to the TPU infrastructure, the forum is super snappy right now, especially when I hit the post button.

Have you upgraded the hardware, or is it just software optimization?

Good to see positive feedback here, too

 

[W1zzard]

Bah our internal switch crashed again, last time was in January. Trying to get a replacement.

No replies needed. Locking this thread for a few hours

 

[W1zzard]

and new switch has been installed.

 

[W1zzard]

ffs .. new switch already crashed once

 

[jboydgolfer]

Extremely unresponsive for me today.I keep getting double posts without typing a second message

 

[alucasa]

The end must be nigh.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Extremely unresponsive for me today.I keep getting double posts without typing a second message

same here, and other weird shit, its pretty freaky.

I think its because Nicholas Sand has died and the sites gone all trippy

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/...ght-to-bring-lsd-to-the-world-dies-at-75.html

 

[qubit]

It was a bit sluggish a few hours ago, but seems fine now.

 

[jboydgolfer]

im not now, but in threads and PM's i would hit the post button, and nothing would happen aside from the black loading bar in the top right of the screen, then there would be 2 identical posts one on top of the other....also, posts when normal would take 15+ seconds. and strange UI glitches.

Edit*
it seems as though the majority of my issues were when i was using my iphone, not the APP. i dont knwo if it makes a difference, but it just was doing it.12:00 EST.

 

[alucasa]

I don't use phones to view sites like TPU, so I wouldn't know.

My word, I already pay 70 CAD /mo with my plan. I used to pay 120 /mo but I cut it down, bandwidth wise.

 

[jboydgolfer]

I don't use phones to view sites like TPU, so I wouldn't know.

My word, I already pay 70 CAD /mo with my plan. I used to pay 120 /mo but I cut it down, bandwidth wise.

How much Internet does $120 a month buy you? 20+ gb's gotta be?

 

[alucasa]

Mind that it's in CAD.

For 120? It wasn't much. 4GB of wireless internet, unlimited long distance, whatnot... I don't even recall well now.

With 70, I get 1gb of wireless, 15 minutes of long stance & stuff.

 

[jboydgolfer]

Mind that it's in CAD.

For 120? It wasn't much. 4GB of wireless internet, unlimited long distance, whatnot... I don't even recall well now.

With 70, I get 1gb of wireless, 15 minutes of long stance & stuff.

In ca$ my wives plan costs me 48$ ca ($35us)for 5gb/mo. But i only use my wireless with my phone.

 

[alucasa]

The 70/mo plan was set like 3 or 4 years ago when I got my Blackberry Z10. I think I need to move to Android tho. Blackberry has killed off their own OS in favor of Android and the OS is getting only security support now.

Even my TD banking app says it's going to stop working in June.

 

[W1zzard]

Hmm .. I have nothing to report from my side, everything running smoothly. Are you all using similar ISPs or geos?

Any packet loss showing on traceroute?

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

this post sorted itself in to a different order i.e the quote is in the middle of the post and when i posted it the vid was at the bottom of the post

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/...-launch-satellites.233181/page-2#post-3656656


and i sent a vid by pm and it duplicated itself

 

[alucasa]

Two badgers!

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

i dont know what any of this means

 

[alucasa]

Nothing much to worry about the traceroute. It's got few dead spots along the way but that's normal often.

There are some lagging spots right before your connection hits TPU though, but it's not even serious.

 

[jboydgolfer]

Caps is in england iirc, i am in new england(ma) so different isp. I will report if it continues tomorrow.

Due to lack of common experiences, im inclined to believe its possibly on my end.

 

[jboydgolfer]

getting odd random page errors...& bad gateways a while this morning.. You'll see it is centering the posts for some reason.

 

[P4-630]

getting odd random page errors...& bad gateways a while this morning.. You'll see it is centering the posts for some reason.

Install a proper graphics driver or start using cleartype text first...

 

[qubit]

Been working ok for me so far.

 

[qubit]

I'm getting very intermittent server hangups over the last couple of days. A single refresh always clears them, however. Anyone else seeing this?