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Former_MSE_Webmaster
Former_MSE_Webmaster Posts: 445 Forumite
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in Site feedback and Forum Help
Hi folks,

We are planning some major upgrades this week so I'm afraid that we're having to take down the Forums from midnight this Thursday, January 28th, 2010 until 9am Friday morning.

We're getting in two new shiny database servers that should see us through several years of growth and will hopefully allow us the resource to sort out the nagging problems with slowness, glitching and search that we've been experiencing recently.

Apologies for taking it away from you but I'm sure you'll bear with us and find something else to do...such as sleep.


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  • 456789
    456789 Posts: 2,305 Forumite
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    You need to explain what sleep is :p
  • honeybear_2
    honeybear_2 Posts: 3,914 Forumite
    MSE_Webmaster wrote: »
    We're getting in two new shiny database servers that should see us through several years of growth and will hopefully allow us the resource to sort out the nagging problems with slowness, glitching and search that we've been experiencing recently.

    Is this why there has been so much downtime & so many server upgrades recently?

    And are you sure this will fix the problem?
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  • Tigsteroonie
    Tigsteroonie Posts: 24,954 Forumite
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    MSE_Webmaster wrote: »
    Apologies for taking it away from you but I'm sure you'll bear with us and find something else to do ... such as sleep.

    Try telling that to the babies of the MSE Parents Club! ;)
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  • nads
    nads Posts: 2,406 Forumite
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    When will you upgrade to VBulletin v4? Please!
  • cit_k
    cit_k Posts: 24,812 Forumite
    What problems, the site has always been fast, apart from when its been down for all these upgrades?

    What are the problems?
    Sometimes, a new server is only a band-aid.
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  • co123456
    co123456 Posts: 368 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    Did you get a deal on the new servers? Cashback? ;-)
  • fermi
    fermi Posts: 40,542 Forumite
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    cit_k wrote: »
    What are the problems?

    Ones I have noticed are glitching and lagging in the forum search function.

    Glitching - In other words the the forums sometimes throws up an erroneous "no results" message on a search, when it's clear there should actually be many. For example when searching the past posts of a user with 100's/1000's of posts, and being told by the forum search that "no posts exist".

    Lagging - Frequently the search database lags behind the live boards by a significant time. Sometimes over 30 mins or so. Makes it very difficult to find recent posts by a user should you wish to.
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  • realaledrinker
    realaledrinker Posts: 1,661 Forumite
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    fermi wrote: »
    Ones I have noticed are glitching and lagging in the forum search function.

    hardly an issue for 99.9% of users though?
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  • fermi
    fermi Posts: 40,542 Forumite
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    realaledrinker wrote: »
    hardly an issue for 99.9% of users though?

    Annoying to me and others on here. Several threads about it here, so certainly not just me.

    One of the other big problems is the slowdown that sometimes happens on "email" day or other busy days. A few weeks ago the forum was almost unusable for a significat part of one day.

    OK, 95-99% of the times things run great. Would still be nice to help reduce the times when it doesn't.
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  • pipsta
    pipsta Posts: 200 Forumite
    Typical user responses, no idea what goes on behind the scenes to make this stuff work. Give the techies a break it needs to be done to keep it future proof.
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