Damn Web host

[KM]

Recently winmxworld moved over from a dedicated server to a web hosting account, the theory was that it would make things easier to manage... theories are great in theory

The first issue had was with constant database connection problems - i made a small tweak to get rid of most of the errors (by retrying) but it still didn't sort it out so was still an annoyance.

Secondly the database has been corrupted TWICE in the last week... yes nice and reliable there... thankfully no data loss either time so no need to restore backups and lose a few hours worth of posts

And to add to things last night it just completely failed, apparently winmxworld went slightly over the limit for the number of database queries they allow... which btw was not mentioned in the advertising!

Basically in short I have moved the site back to a nice cosy server where it is free to connect to the mysql server whenever it wants without errors and without limits and without being corrupted twice in one week (or at least i hope so anyway)

It also turns out their DNS servers take several hours to update (!!!) then once they finally do update they have set a 24 hour TTL so it will take ages for www.winmxworld.com to be pointing to the correct place - so as a temporary measure the forum is currently being run from a different URL with the old server redirecting here, so those still using the old host will get a redirect to the temporary URL on the new host - i should be able to remove this in 24 hours time and go back to using www.winmxworld.com (in theory)

And now, i can go to bed... like i was going to do 3 hours ago... if something is broken (other than having an ugly URL in the address bar as you browse the forum) then I'll sort it out when i wake up

* KM passes out

[Me Here]

You may also notice some ..erm.. strange characters on the site.. those should be fixed also ..when well ..KM wakes up 

[KM]

actually they should have been fixed before i passed out...

edit: i did fix it by setting the character set of the site, but the forum is on a different character set than everything else for some reason... so now i've set the forum correctly it should be fixed

[KM]

OK, it should all be working well now - the main site and forum should be all working fine (on the correct URL) and the other sections are still with the old host - they seem fine for anything non-mysql so i might as well leave all of the non-mysql stuff with them (like the archive)

hopefuly no problems?

[*^*Åü§§ïëgïrl*^*]

My nic appears to have some problems with the change. Do I need to re-register in non-ascii format ?

[*^*Åü§§ïëgïrl*^*]

nm. I re-applied the ascii in my own settings and it sorted itself out.

[KM]

not sure why but yours was in one character set and yet others are in a different one :-S but all sorted now anyway (btw i did your nic at the same time you did it... lol)

the forum is now set to UTF-8, i hope it does't mess up the other language sections (i have no idea what it was set to before - but the other sections look correct on UTF-8 - or at least there are lots of letters and sort of right looking symbols which is how it normally looks)

[nylly444]

* nylly444 hurries off to check on her german section and blames KM in advance should anything be messed up

[SamSeeSam]

lol @advance

But everthing's running nicely now though. Good job again KM. Thank you

Cheers

[KM]

as sam just pointed out to me in a PM, there is no spell checker now - i didn't notice because i don't use it i use the google toolbar (lol) the reason being because it needs aspell installed, i don't think i want to install that on an already overloaded server, i'm sure you can manage without (if your spelling is that bad... google toolar, heh)

[SamSeeSam]

awww, never mind, I kind of miss the way it used to try to correct 'winmx' to 'wonks' lol

Cheers

[KM]

you ever tried the google toolbars built in spell checker? i use it in several places no need to worry about if the site has a spell checker (and is often faster than the spell checkers sites have anyway)... in fact i even use the toolbars spell checker on gmail (even though gmail has the same spell checker built in!)

[*^*Åü§§ïëgïrl*^*]

not sure why but yours was in one character set and yet others are in a different one :-S but all sorted now anyway (btw i did your nic at the same time you did it... lol

The Å from my nic is borrowed from another language character set while the remaining letters are from ASCII name maker. Maybe that's why. All's good now anyway. Thanks

[White Stripes]

Connection Problems
Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later.

anyone else keep getting this? happens just about every other link i click

[SamSeeSam]

lol
I was getting that same error when I tried to come here, and also when i tried to post this message

Cheers

[KM]

not sure what happened there, database seemed to lock up, i am going to try increasing the connection limits

[SamSeeSam]

Well things seem to be normal again now Cheers Km
I tried out your suggestion for google toolbar, and it is much better
Thanks

Cheers