Thread: The ALIPAC Website Move is complete

is there anything we should know from this move?

Originally Posted by thelmahopkins

is there anything we should know from this move?

Thelma,

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Originally Posted by thelmahopkins

is there anything we should know from this move?

While we value the input of our supporters, I don't see how the details of back end infrastructure or the hows and why's of what is nothing more than a supporting service being discussed could possibly further ALIPACs cause.

We have a web server. We do things to it to keep everything running on a shoestring budget. Some things go well, others don't. Technical decisions aren't going to be explained.

If there are usability issues, I'll be happy to do whatever I reasonably can to address them. Past that, there will be no comment on anything other than to say that there will be more maintenance windows in the future. A site this large with this many members requires maintenance. Without several hundred dollars a month in server hosting (plus several servers to begin with) this maintenance can't be done to the "live" environment.

Again, the lack of technical commentary is not meant to shut anyone out of anything, but it's simply not applicable to what we're here for. If you want to talk tech about web servers, join a forum dedicated to that. We won't be dscussing it here.

Originally Posted by Darlene

Is anyone having trouble with it being slow? Mine has slowed down a lot when I try to click on anything. Example>>I found a spelling error in one of my posts and when I changed it and hit submit, the flag in the upper right hand corner is still waving. I had to open another window to write this. I just now checked and it finally posted. It took at least 5 min. This just started today, since the maintenance was finished. Anyone else?

It's going to be a bit slower that it was before (home page generation averages about 2 seconds where it used to be just under 1 second), but it can handle more load now (generation goes up to about 4 or 5 seconds with 100 simutaneus requests....used to go up to 30+ seconds). I'm not experiencing the issues you described, and I'm guessing it happened only that once....is that the case?

And, please, don't exaggerate when reporting technical issues...it makes it difficult for me to track down (example: PHP times out after 3 minutes, so if you were waiting for a submit on any page on this site for 180 seconds, it would time out and go to a "page could not be displayed"....there's no way it took 5 minutes....if it did, it would have failed and never posted).

Originally Posted by thelmahopkins

is there anything we should know from this move?

Thats a really CUTE avatar. So I guess the avatar problem is fixed.?

Originally Posted by butterbean

Originally Posted by thelmahopkins

is there anything we should know from this move?

Thats a really CUTE avatar. So I guess the avatar problem is fixed.?

I don't know yet....I'm working on confirimg that.