Pegasus Research Consortium

hope those  monkeys figure it out soon
but when I read this I thought oh NO

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/somebody-is-cutting-internet-cables-causing-massive-outages/ar-AAcpWNz

Somebody is cutting Internet cables, causing massive outages


or maybe it's that guy listening in on john L

or


or

Glad we are back up!! :))

i forgot i was looking for at the forum...like,..3 days ...  :o

Quote from: larishira on July 04, 2015, 01:04:05 AM
i forgot i was looking for at the forum...like,..3 days ...  :o

Yes, it seems this might be the longest time since I joined, for the forum to remain down. Z has done a really good job of keeping it up and going, with some sort of break every now and then!! This time it may be/has been one of the most difficult for him to get corrected!! And, according to the Z's notice, he is still trying to determine the continuing cause of the problem!!

I certainly have missed getting on the forum these several days, and am glad we at least have a temporary way to get back in, to talk together here!!

Took so long this time because

a)  the server was sold to new owners and they moved us from a dedicated server to a shared server and their Monkeys had NO IDEA what the issue waa. When a top admin looked at it they told me WHAT to fix but not HOW or WHERE

b) I am getting old and forgot that the first time we had this issue I moved the froum from /forum   to /forum1

So moving it to /forum2 has restored it but we still do not know the SOURCE

It appears that the php.ini file was set to ALLOW PERSISTENT CONNECTIONS

That is okay on a dedicated server but not on a shared server

What it means is that when a person opens a query on the database it stays open Default reset is 8 hours of non use.  A shared server allows only 10 per person (on Globat)   That is normally enough as the connection is usually a fraction of a second.

The php.ini was changed to turn that OFF but it still did not reset. We were told we must close all current open connections  Well HOW? LOL

If the queries are from a robot like google search we have no way to close it

Moving the forum to /forum2  temporarily drops all connections and it loaded up intact

So there are NO ISSUES with the forum files (save I need to update a new theme)  The database is intact and backed up ( the first time we had issue at the beginning we loaded an older copy of the database needlessly and lost two weeks

The database and the forum files are two different animals.  So each needs its own backup

Now that I know where to fix it  next time I will move it and redirect right away and then talk to the Monkeys :P

Quote from: space otter on July 04, 2015, 12:30:37 AM
or

or robot attacks...

The search engines quey the website by the miilions daily driving traffic figures high.  I have a robot.txt that will stop the HONEST search engine from doing that that I will add later (have to tell it only /forum2 files as I don't want them to stop inzing the website

But spambots and sneaky hackers don't play by the rules

We opened a new copy of the forum and before I could even set the permissions a spammer already logged in and posted porn  Not even 5 minutes after the initial setup

Z, might need to remind everyone that using more than a word or two in the search box will make it get wiggy...


seeker

Good heavens!  I don't get here daily, so I didn't notice anything until yesterday.   Someone should give that Zorgon character a raise.  I think he's overworked and underpaid.

Shasta

Well done "Z" for managing to get the forum back online and working out how to do it.

I am sure it must have been a bit of a nightmare and scare along with a headache.

I am sure many members did not know what to do with themselves  without being  able to access the forum.

Quote from: astr0144 on July 04, 2015, 01:56:46 AM
I am sure many members did not know what to do with themselves  without being  able to access the forum.

Looking in on Pegasus at least once every two days or so has largely become autonomic for me.  I didn't panic, but I did wonder what was up.  I also assumed that Zorgon would be working on it.  I'm glad the place is going again.

Quote from: zorgon on July 04, 2015, 01:33:03 AM
or robot attacks...

The search engines quey the website by the miilions daily driving traffic figures high.  I have a robot.txt that will stop the HONEST search engine from doing that that I will add later (have to tell it only /forum2 files as I don't want them to stop inzing the website

But spambots and sneaky hackers don't play by the rules

We opened a new copy of the forum and before I could even set the permissions a spammer already logged in and posted porn  Not even 5 minutes after the initial setup

And during this fight against monkey, php, sml....
I was keeping talks to Zorgon...and later...when he's still trying to recovery the forum....and he did it!!!
Congrats ! I'll send to you a yellow gift !!!

So glad to have the forum back up :D  Zorgon, thank you for your hard work. Good luck with those monkeys!  :)

Quote from: the seeker on July 04, 2015, 01:35:08 AM
Z, might need to remind everyone that using more than a word or two in the search box will make it get wiggy...

Use "-----" in the forum search   using a phrase like .... the fox ate a chicken

will return EVERY post that has any of those words in it  whereas "the fox ate a chicken" will only search for that phrase

However it was the number of persistent connections that was the issue. The connections didn't close

So you open a pm that is one query, you open three threads in three tabs that is 3 queries and so on

SHOULD be okay now

The forum has them set off BUT the main server had the php.ini override as the website has unlimited connections.

Thing is with the modern high speed servers the persistent connection is not needed All it does is keep it open like a cache so it loads faster if your still using it

On a PLUS note they did a free survey on the website to check loading speeds etc  Livingmoon loads in 3 seconds :D

Now I need to find a new dark skin  I will test them on the new forum first

Then I can drop this one and update the forum... so in a few weeks there may be changes and glitches but that won't effect the database

And I have a full copy of the forum (this one is a clone literally)  so if things go bump I just reupload this one

WoW skin is no longer compatible. This is WoW but modified

Very happy to see we're back!  :)

Quote from: zorgon on July 04, 2015, 09:16:48 AM
Now I need to find a new dark skin  I will test them on the new forum first

Then I can drop this one and update the forum... so in a few weeks there may be changes and glitches but that won't effect the database

And I have a full copy of the forum (this one is a clone literally)  so if things go bump I just reupload this one

WoW skin is no longer compatible. This is WoW but modified

How about this?

CoalBlack
http://www.jpr62.com/demos/index.php?theme=44