Messages from Leo-rcc

leo-rcc · February 06, 2009, 08:50:57 AM

Can someone tell me why the data transfers from the site just exploded in the last 2 months?

The Rock Doctor · February 06, 2009, 08:53:49 AM

Off hand, no. I don't think the board has been dramatically busier. Is there any way to track what data is going where?

Guinness · February 06, 2009, 09:05:05 AM

Odd.

*diving into the techie stuff*

I notice that the server is sending these headers:

Cache-Control: private
Pragma: no-cache

At any rate, if you need some help crunching access logs, etc. let me know.

*mumbles*

that's some of the sort of stuff I do for a living

leo-rcc · February 06, 2009, 09:09:16 AM

Quote from: The Rock Doctor on December 01, 2008, 09:49:38 AM
Thanks for the update. The Chat room is proving rather popular, it seems.

Very popular indeed, as it turns out, the chat is responsible for 22GB! of data traffic on top of the standard forum data traffic.

Guinness · February 06, 2009, 09:17:55 AM

is that 22 gigabytes? Or 22 gigabits? Either way: yikes!.

I'd turn that off. We can surely set up a standing MSN or AOL chatroom or something instead.

The Rock Doctor · February 06, 2009, 09:59:29 AM

Before we do that - is the increase in traffic a problem? Or just a matter of curiousity?

maddox · February 06, 2009, 10:57:08 AM

a €30 fine is the result of the increased data transfer.

leo-rcc · February 06, 2009, 11:46:06 AM

Over the last 2 months the site went over with 17 Gigabyte, as I had it set to the max of 10 GB per month (So in total this forum hit 37 Gigabyte in 2 months). That is already the maximum allowed for any package.

I don' t want to limit anyones use of the chat or indeed the rest of the forum. But a 30 euro fine every month or 2 months does add up.

I will try to to edit the template of the chat asking people not to lurk around too long, that is the best I can do atm.

leo-rcc · February 09, 2009, 08:33:40 AM

As much as I didn't want to do this I have taken off the chat for now. I upgraded the forum software to 1.1.8 so the chat stopes working after each upgrade anyway so I could do that in one stroke. I will see if I can find a different solution that is not so intense in data as the tpvchat.

leo-rcc · February 09, 2009, 08:41:46 AM

I added this program to the Navalism site.

Guinness · February 09, 2009, 08:50:23 AM

Thanks Leo. I've updated the reference in the ship design guidelines, then moved this post here for posterity.

leo-rcc · June 15, 2009, 07:55:57 AM

Had a bit of a tense moment there, I updated the forum to 1.1.9 and halfway the upgrade the installer gave an SQL error. I managed to fix it though, some security updates are now implemented.

leo-rcc · July 04, 2009, 04:30:22 AM

It seems we are getting rather popular with spammers lately. I will see what I can do about that.

The Rock Doctor · July 04, 2009, 04:41:55 AM

Thanks; it's usually good to be popular, but it does have drawbacks.

maddox · July 04, 2009, 02:35:00 PM

Funny, last week Guinnes and me talked about it, and our potential solution is rather simple.

Before approval the "new member" has to explain in a short sentence why he wants to join Navalism.

And it "I like this site" won't cut the cheese.