But they don't seem to post :(

The downtime yesterday evening was because someone switched off Apache and MySQL. I have no way of knowing who it was, but there are only 3 of us that can do it, those being Pete and myself and EuroVPS. I know it wasn't me and I suspect it wasn't Pete either.

(Google = all search engines)

Google's indexing is not taking down the forum and neither is the point of the indexing to allow people to use Google to search here, it's simply so we appear in Google's search results.

If anyone has been paying attention to the number of visitors lately you all should have noticed that it has risen quite dramatically above the usual 10 registered users and 1 or 2 guests. We're now getting 20+ Guests browsing at times. This wouldn't be too bad normally, but because Apache is restricted to 10 concurrent connections when these 30 people turn up at once, 20 of them have to wait in line. The only way this can be made better is to add more RAM and allow Apache to accept more connections.

In retrospect when we changed servers last year we probably should have gone for the better server with more RAM and paid more for it, rather than side-grade like we did.

I'll be the first to admit Beehive probably isn't the best optimised forum software out there, but baring in mind it's feature set, it's certainly a lot better than it ever used to be. The memory footprint could probably be looked at, but I'm not sure if that is something that can be solved easily in code or if it's something that needs changing in the PHP configuration.

this is true. Useless people.

Heh, I was going to ask you about that - definitely wasn't me, and I suspected it not being you also, but wanted to check if it was definitely a manual shutdown?


With regards to the optimisation side of things... is there any kind of profiling software for PHP that can identify potential bottlenecks?
Certainly for MySQL it's possible to do Query Execution Plans and look at indexes and so on, but that generally takes more time to identify/narrow where to look at.


Possibly related... have you looked into the WatchDog software that Plesk has? Wondering if that just looks at 'normal' things, or if it is capable of going more in-depth and logging slow scripts/etc...

All the clues point to boughton. It has his MO all over it.

Or meals where cheese and tomato ketchup are the main ingredients.

Nice wheels. And nice motion.

But isn't Peter just an A.I programmed by Matt?
In which case Matt's responsible for it's actions and it's his fault.

He was coded by Kenny. Kenny's like the antiMatt.

Round and round?

The wheels on the bus go round and round?