Welcome back

[Ranchero50]

Been having withdrawals. Looks like Keith got the service providers back on track.

Anyone do anything interesting with your time off?

[jimmy828]

Sure happy to see that the site is back up. Thanks Keith !! I did not even turn a wrench on the ole 69 due to not being able to get advice from the more experienced guys on here But seriously, i did get some front brakes in working order and a new fuel line installed. will post pics of work when i get it all clean up from working on it.

[lennyp]

Glad to see we're back up and running. Thanks Keith

[FORDification]

The biggest problem is simply that the forums are out-growing our current shared server hosts. The forums are putting a heavy load on the server just due to the amount of traffic it's getting, search queries, etc. The answer to this is to step up to a VPS (virtual private server), but that's at a fairly substantial rate increase (3 times what we're paying now!)...AND it means that I'd be in charge of all server functions, including updates, security, etc, which is pretty time-consuming. I'm not entirely convinced I want to go this route.

I was forced to remove a script I had running which allowed more database connections to serve more people at the same time...but this means there's a very real possibility that we're going to see more-frequent error messages, due to us hitting our database query limit earlier each hour. I'll just have to monitor the situation to see what happens and make decisions as necessary.

[1970FordTK]

Roger that.

[robroy]

Thank you Keith.

[Kurt Combs]

Thank you Keith for all your work on this site!

[Ranchero50]

The biggest problem is simply that the forums are out-growing our current shared server hosts. The forums are putting a heavy load on the server just due to the amount of traffic it's getting, search queries, etc. The answer to this is to step up to a VPS (virtual private server), but that's at a fairly substantial rate increase (3 times what we're paying now!)...AND it means that I'd be in charge of all server functions, including updates, security, etc, which is pretty time-consuming. I'm not entirely convinced I want to go this route.

I was forced to remove a script I had running which allowed more database connections to serve more people at the same time...but this means there's a very real possibility that we're going to see more-frequent error messages, due to us hitting our database query limit earlier each hour. I'll just have to monitor the situation to see what happens and make decisions as necessary.

So maybe limit the bot queries or limit the time frame the bots can crawl the database to late nights? I noticed it was me and four bots on the forum this morning when I opened Chrome at work.

[Madman]

Good to have the forum back!

[sargentrs]

Thank you so much Keith!

[DuckRyder]

Hey y'all...

[popeyes71]

Thank you Keith for all your hard work on the site, it is much appreciated! There's no other site I search for information on my Bumpside.

[1972hiboy]

thanks Keith! good to be back as well.

[Canonman67]

Thanks Keith, I really missed the forums.