"The Great Crash of 2013" a.k.a. The Future of ACL site hosting
- Thread starter AlexB
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AlexB said:
Chat logs are necessary for displaying X previous messages upon sign in. They're also used for moderating purposes if required. Chat logs are pruned on a regular basis, however, so the logs aren't all that space consuming. At the moment the SQL table for chat logs is under 15 megabytes.
ecbailey
Full time elf
Really chat is largely text so it isn't going to be huge regardless of how often it is trimmed.
I'm surprised at some of the underlying tones in some of the posts. It was only a few days ago that I was talking with somone about how some of the US sites are very vitriolic. Please dont let this degenirate.
AS for me, yes i would be prepared to donate and up until now I never really thought about the cost of running ACL or who owned it or was in charge. Yes we had a system crash without adeqate backups, but I dont see that this should be a reason to start blaming people who volunteer their time and $ to help people like me. I also dont see a reason why we need to move the hosting. We seem to have made a big jump to get to the point where we are talking about setting up new sites, new hosting, buying Ausie Phil out (dont really understand where he fits into all this).
As Harrison has said, lets give them some time to work out what went wrong, and what needs to be done to bring the site up to speed in terms of reliability, backup and whatever else. Then we can decide what it will cost, how to fund it and if we are happy with the arrangements.
As to how we will decide, I suggest a game of paper, scissors rock.
[SIZE=78%]Cheers (it is that time of the year after all) [/SIZE]
AS for me, yes i would be prepared to donate and up until now I never really thought about the cost of running ACL or who owned it or was in charge. Yes we had a system crash without adeqate backups, but I dont see that this should be a reason to start blaming people who volunteer their time and $ to help people like me. I also dont see a reason why we need to move the hosting. We seem to have made a big jump to get to the point where we are talking about setting up new sites, new hosting, buying Ausie Phil out (dont really understand where he fits into all this).
As Harrison has said, lets give them some time to work out what went wrong, and what needs to be done to bring the site up to speed in terms of reliability, backup and whatever else. Then we can decide what it will cost, how to fund it and if we are happy with the arrangements.
As to how we will decide, I suggest a game of paper, scissors rock.
[SIZE=78%]Cheers (it is that time of the year after all) [/SIZE]
Come on. We're all nerds or wanna be nerds here. It has to be a game of
Rock paper scissors lizard Spock
Rock paper scissors lizard Spock
DannyP said:As to how we will decide, I suggest a game of paper, scissors rock.
[SIZE=78%]Cheers (it is that time of the year after all) [/SIZE]
Benslights
Dedicated elf
scissors
924aussie
Full time elf
I haven't seen so much HoHoHoing from a small group of people, as a former IT specialist and senior systems administrator I can tell you there are many 24 hour days of people working behind the scenes to keep things running. Had a hickup , big deal, did you get to eat your xmas dinner and have a few hours off, bet the guys didn't . I enjoy what I use the sight for , if you don't like it then leave. End of rant for now. Ps there were many many lunches I missed because other staff thought they were more important but still left at 5 while the system guys could still be working past midnight but expected back by 7 am.
DannyP said:
Tapatalk should be working fine. There were some issues before tonight but now I can log in just fine (using the Android client).
I would like to remind everyone that this forums success has been based on its members and the friendly helpful atmosphere where knowledge and ideas are freely shared for the betterment of the hobby.
924aussie
Full time elf
Oh that's my Que.
Group Hug Time.
Nothing suss
Group Hug Time.
Nothing suss
Benslights
Dedicated elf
then stop kissing me :-*
Re: "The Great Crash of 2013" a.k.a. The Future of ACL site hosting
500GB Chat Logs? damn thats a lot for text.. zip those things daily and clear out anything thats a month old.. I used to run IRC server on EFNet and never had logs that big.
Harrison Kohn said:
500GB Chat Logs? damn thats a lot for text.. zip those things daily and clear out anything thats a month old.. I used to run IRC server on EFNet and never had logs that big.